Darren Burke
Industry Professor, Kinesiology

Dr Darren Burke is a former university professor who turned his research into a new category of sports nutrition products. He grew the company from inception to Canadian and US market leader in five years, followed by a successful exit in 2013.

In 2017 he and NHL Forward TJ Galiardi co-founded a sustainable agricultural technology company to reduce food waste and save valuable nutrients in fruit and vegetables destined for landfill. They built the company from idea to $30mm value in three years and built multiple manufacturing facilities.

Dr Darren Burke is currently working on a new venture leveraging the power of microbial fermentation to transform cosmetically rejected farm produce into protein to feed our growing global population.
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