EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

ENTREPRENEUR-IN-RESIDENCE

Ideation Clinic

CEO

Cognōscō Noor, Menlo X

Ateeya Rabbani began working in the incubator space in 2008, before incubators exist as we know them today. She strongly believes that all ideas have value and has worked throughout her career to champion health innovation in Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom.

A solution seeker at the core, Mrs. Rabbani’s interest in the understanding visionaries and organizations sparked in 2000, where she was asked to study hundreds of management information circulars for Merrill Lynch clients. Her role was to comprehensively understand the logic and reasoning behind each board decision and advocate to attain shareholder quorum.

This launched a career working with multi-national financial institutions, healthcare institutions, technology companies, private equity groups and incubators in Toronto, Silicon Valley, London, Honolulu and Nassau, (Bahamas) and San Juan (Costa Rica). During her career tenure, Mrs. Rabbani’s portfolio has included 94% of TSX listed income trusts and real estate investment trusts, national banks, listed healthcare and technology companies, global engineering consulting firms, global property developers and more. She has successfully launched over 45 technology and healthcare startups.

In 2008, Mrs. Rabbani founded her own health incubator, which exists today as Cognosco Noor Ltd., with offices in London and Toronto. She has shared a stage with Apple’s Co-Founder Steve Wozniak and US Secretary of State, Condoleeza Rice. In addition, she has been a speaker at Sunnybrook Hospital, the University Health Network, Schulich School of Business, Ted Rogers School of Management, and helped shape curriculum for Ideation, Leadership Studies, DBT-informed mental health courses.

On behalf of the Ideation Clinic, Mrs. Rabbani teaches and mentors healthcare trainees from the University of Toronto, Waterloo Engineering, McMaster University, University of Alberta, Google, Apple, etc. Topics range from ideation, health innovation, healthcare and life sciences start ups, blockchain, and mental health. She is a current student at the Translational Research Program at the University of Toronto in the Temerty Faculty of Medicine.

Mrs. Rabbani’s commitment to realizing potential extends to her philanthropic work, where she has a particular focus on mental health and neuroscience initiatives, bio-hacking, psychedelic research and the plight of environmental refugees. When not in the boardroom or classroom, Mrs. Rabbani can be found with her husband, three boys, pup and two cats.

“If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.”

SIR THOMAS EDISON

What does your role at the Ideation Clinic™ entail?

Shape strategic objectives, curriculum, research and more. In addition, I mentor our trainees, Ideators-in-Training and startups, moderate workshops and Huddles and teach our Ideation Key program for Highly Qualified Personnel (graduate level or higher) in medicine and engineering.