Parinaz Sobhani is the former head of AI at Georgian Partners, Canada’s largest venture capital firm
Alternative asset manager Sagard Holdings Inc . has hired its first head of artificial intelligence as the private capital unit of Power Corp. of Canada Ms. Sobhani joined Georgian as an applied research scientist in 2017 after earning a master’s degree in computer science at Sharif University of Technology in her native country of Iran and a PhD in AI at the University of Ottawa. Her university studies focused on natural language processing.
Now, Ms. Sobhani will lead the development and implementation of the AI strategy at Sagard, Power Corp.’s seven-year-old alternative investment arm, which has US$25-billion in assets under management. Ms. Sobhani starts next month. Sagard managing partner François Lafortune said that with AI now a key element of many companies backed by venture capital, it is important for early-stage financiers to have a dedicated AI person who can help build out a team, collaborate across their portfolio and assist with due diligence on prospective investments. Mr. Lafortune is also co-founder and chief executive officer of Sagard unit Diagram Ventures, a company builder and technology venture capital firm.
Ms. Sobhani said that after working with more mature growth-stage companies across a range of sectors at Georgian, she was drawn to the opportunity to work with younger companies more focused on financial technology at Diagram and Portage Ventures, Sagard’s other venture capital arm. “I really like the zero to 10, building from almost nothing and collaborating with founders,” she said in an interview. “I’m excited to go very deep in the fintech industry.
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