Reza Satchu

Reza Satchu brings over 20 years of experience as a professor at Harvard Business School and a notable track record as a successful entrepreneur. Alongside his business ventures, Reza teaches numerous entrepreneurship courses and has established several entrepreneurship programs at both Harvard Business School and the University of Toronto.

Reza founded and managed StorageNow, a leading self-storage company established in 2003. In 2010, he founded NEXT Canada, a philanthropic entrepreneurship program dedicated to providing education, mentorship, and start-up funding to emerging entrepreneurs. Reza serves as Chairman of NEXT and teaches its core entrepreneurship course.

From 2003 to 2010, Reza was an Adjunct Professor at the University of Toronto, where he created and taught "The Economics of Entrepreneurship." Over the past 20 years, all of Reza’s teaching activities at the University of Toronto and at NEXT have been part of his charitable endeavors.

Reza has also served as Vice Chairman of the board of the Toronto Hospital for Sick Children Foundation and as a director at KGS-Alpha Capital Markets. Prior to his entrepreneurial career, he was a General Partner and Managing Director at Fenway Partners, a New York-based private equity firm with $1.4 billion in assets focused on middle-market acquisitions. He began his career as a Financial Analyst at Merrill Lynch in the High Yield Finance and Restructuring Group.

Reza is the Founder and Managing Partner of Alignvest Management Corporation, a leading private investment firm. He also serves as a director on the board of Sagicor Financial Corporation, a public life insurance company, and on the boards of several private companies. He is also involved with several non-profit organizations, including serving as a Strategic Advisor to the Creative Destruction Lab. Reza has been recognized with the "Canada’s Top 40 Under 40" Award and the Management Achievement Award from McGill University in 2011. He also co-chaired his Harvard Business School Class of 1996’s 20th Year Reunion.

Reza earned his BA from McGill University and his MBA from Harvard Business School.