The people behind Northwright
Northwright is led by an industry-recognized founder with deep consulting and enterprise executive experience, supported by an advisory board spanning AI research, enterprise security, corporate leadership, and Silicon Valley.
Atul Ojha
Founder & CEO
Atul Ojha is the Founder and CEO of Northwright, a venture-backed company by AXL. Northwright was built to close the gap between AI ambition and enterprise reality — building production AI, securing the enterprise that runs it, and making sure it gets adopted.
Most recently, he was a Partner at RSM Canada, leading the North America Cyber Engineering practice. Before RSM, he was a Partner at EY, leading National Cyber Engineering through a period of rapid growth. Earlier in his career, he led the cybersecurity workstream of a billion-dollar digital transformation in global hospitality, and designed banking products that won the Greenwich award and were licensed by other financial institutions.
With 25+ years across Big4, global consulting and corporate leadership, Atul brings a rare combination of strategic depth and hands-on technical experience. He writes and speaks regularly on AI security, AI governance, enterprise risk, and cybersecurity, with published work and appearances at Gartner, KuppingerCole, and other industry forums.
He holds the CISSP and PMP designations and is a founding member of Canada AI Alliance.
Advisors
Senior advisors guiding Northwright across research, applied AI, and enterprise security.
Daniel Wigdor
Co-Founder and CEO of AXL; Professor of Computer Science, University of Toronto. Formerly at Microsoft Research. Co-founder of Chatham Labs (acquired by Meta).
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David Sharma
Co-Founder and Chief Growth Officer at AXL; Former President at TELUS.
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Tovi Grossman
Co-Founder and Chief Scientist of AXL; Professor of Computer Science, University of Toronto. Expert in human-AI interaction and creative AI systems.
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Varun C Perumal
Researcher and entrepreneur in interactive technology and AI systems.
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