Usha Srinivasan

Program Director, Business Acceleration Program (BAP)

Usha Srinivasan leads a team of individuals dedicated to providing commercialization services to technology entrepreneurs in the province. The program provides access to advisory services, program funding, market/industry intelligence and online and onsite educational content accessible through the “Regional Innovation Centers” across the province such as MaRS. She also leads the market intelligence team where her team of industry specific and information specialists provide quality and timely market research intelligence to entrepreneurs in Ontario.

Prior to joining MaRS, she worked at Frost & Sullivan, a leading global market research and consulting company where she published key research papers, consulted for companies of varying sizes and managed a group of analysts to provide quality research. She has technical & industry background in water, environment and building technologies space having worked with global clients such as GE, Siemens, Veolia, American water, IBM, Honeywell and Brita. She holds a BSc in Microbiology from University of Bristol and a PhD in Environmental Sciences from University of Abertay in Dundee, Scotland. She is an NRC fellow and has completed postdoctoral work at the US Environmental Protection Agency and University of New Brunswick. She has also worked with the Northern Research Institute and the Department of Forestry in the Yukon and helped to research and write the “State of the Environment” report for the Yukon territories.

Contact:
T 416-673-8144
F 416-673-8181
E-mail: usrinivasan@marsdd.com