Dr. Mekhail is a bioengineer by training, and completed his PhD at McGill University in 2014. He has 17 years of experience in biomaterials innovation with 15 publications in top scientific journals, 37 awards, and multiple patents. During his career he successfully secured >$6M in public and private funding. He successfully built partnerships with multi-billion dollar companies in Canada and abroad. In addition to his scientific expertise, he has over 10 years of entrepreneurial experience, and 5 years as a project manager and innovation consultant. His extensive technical knowledge in biomaterials and strong business acumen make him well-equipped to lead Freshr towards success.
He is also passionate about encouraging scientists to pursue entrepreneurship as a viable career path. He has written about this topic, his own entrepreneurial journey, and more on Medium. He also gets invited frequently to speak at national conferences, incubators, accelerators, student societies and universities.