Michael Lenczner is the CEO and founder of Ajah (www.ajah.ca), a Canadian-based company which offers an online funder research to the non-profit sector. Its service, Fundtracker, merges dozens of government and public data sets with its own proprietary research so that users can track grant-making by foundations, corporations and governments. Their award-winning non-profit initiative, PoweredByData (www.poweredbydata.org) leverages their expertise to develop a more effective social sector by working with governments and funders to publish open data.

Michael has been working in public interest technology since the late '90s. He founded the community wireless group Ile sans fil, and has been working in open data since 2004, co-founding municipal, provincial, and national lobbying groups for increased access to government data