Director
Sunny Kumar MHSc., Ph.D. is an Investment Manager with the Investment Accelerator Fund, a $27.5M seed fund. Sunny joined the IAF in the fall of 2007 and is responsible for evaluating investment opportunities and reviewing business plans, conducting and managing due diligence, working with companies to refine their “pitch”, preparing an investment thesis to recommend investment in appropriate opportunities to the IAF Management and Investment Committees, negotiating investment terms, facilitate closing of transactions, and managing relationships with IAF portfolio companies. Sunny has closed numerous transactions and sits as an Observer on the Board of Directors of 6 portfolio companies. He holds an HBSc (Neuroscience) as well as MHSc and PhD (Molecular Oncology) degrees from the University of Toronto. He then went on to complete a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard Medical School (Viral Oncology).