I was born and raised in Southern Ontario and graduated from the University of Waterloo with a BASc in Chemical Engineering in 2006. I started working at AIC Heat Exchangers in 2015, which is also when I attended my first IDEA conference in Boston. My wife and I recently welcomed our first child. When not spending time with them, I am an avid runner who started the first annual IDEA group run at the 2019 conference in Pittsburgh.