Abdullah Snobar

Hospitality and Tourism Management ’09; MBA ’18
Executive Director, DMZ

Abdullah is the Executive Director of the DMZ, a leading tech accelerator that helps high-potential startups scale to world-class businesses. To date, the DMZ has accelerated 383 companies that have raised over $563.6M and fostered 3,612 jobs. Under his leadership, the DMZ was named the number one university-based incubator in the world by UBI Global. Prior to joining the DMZ, Abdullah held roles at Ryerson, the Canadian Armed Forces, Fairmont and Marriott Hotels and Resorts and co-founded a non-profit foundation in Kenya. He’s an avid community builder with a longstanding history of working with marginalized and underserved communities at home and abroad. Most recently, Abdullah was a board member with the Ontario Trillium Foundation. He regularly appears in the media and is a member of the Forbes Tech Council. In 2018, Abdullah became a recipient of Canada’s 2018 Top 40 Under 40.