Mara is Co-founder and COO of Signal 1, a Canadian health start-up company that provides hospitals with an enterprise-wide AI platform that monitors patients from admission through discharge. Prior to Signal 1, Mara spent 19 years as a Professor of Strategy at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto. During her time at Rotman, Mara was the site lead for CDL-Toronto, overseeing the program during its largest period of growth. Mara holds a PhD in economics from MIT.