Don Simmonds

A Canadian executive leader and serial entrepreneur from Canada, Don is the founding CEO of CitiIQ. He is also Chairman of Blyth Group, the Chancellor of Crandall University, a member of the Canadian Telecommunications Hall of Fame, recipient of the Queen’s Jubilee medal, and a Director of Baylin Technologies (BYL: TSX).

CitiIQ has developed a global standard for city measurement and provides a quarterly scoring service for cities and towns around the world. Harnessing the power of data science and technology delivery CitiIQ helps drive positive change and sustainability in urban environments.

In April 2020 as the pandemic was expanding globally, UN-Habitat commissioned the CitiIQ platform to measure and display COVID-19 data daily for 2600 global cities.