Gordon Harling received a Bachelor’s degree in Applied Science from the University of Toronto and a Maitrise en Ingenierie Physique from the Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal. He has worked in Research and Development at large companies such as Mitel, NovAtel, and DALSA. He has been a founder and CEO of several start-up companies including Goal Semiconductor, Elliptic Technologies, and Innotime Technologies.

Since 2018 he has been CEO of CMC Microsystems, a not-for-profit that provides software, fabrication access, and technical services to over 10,000 researchers and students in 22 countries. CMC’s focus is to enable the design and manufacture of hardware for microelectronics, photonics, mechanical sensors (MEMS), quantum devices, and AIoT.