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Did Ehsan Mokhtari co-found ChargeLab?
Yes, as a later-joining co-founder. BetaKit (2022-05-19) says "In 2020, Ehsan Mokhtari joined Lefevre as co-founder and CTO" and captions him as a ChargeLab co-founder; ChargeLab's own 2023-04-14 post on its expanded Series A quotes "co-founder and CTO, Ehsan Mokhtari"; BetaKit (2023-11-08) names Zak Lefevre (CEO) and Mokhtari (CTO) as the co-founders. Lefevre started the company on his own in 2016, per his Pulse 2.0 interview (2024-09-25).
What did Ehsan Mokhtari do before ChargeLab?
Zak Lefevre, in a Pulse 2.0 interview (2024-09-25), says he met Mokhtari in 2020 and that Mokhtari "had recently built a cybersecurity company and sold it to Nielsen"; after he joined, ChargeLab raised its first VC round. BetaKit (2023-11-08) says Mokhtari was previously ChargeLab's VP of engineering and that Patrick Smith's hire as VP of Engineering let him focus fully on the CTO role. No fetched page names the cybersecurity company.
Has Ehsan Mokhtari spoken at TechTO?
No. The ChargeLab person in this directory who has taken a TechTO stage is Kim Phelan, now the company's VP Product, who spoke on the TechTO Product panel on 2020-03-05 while at Loblaw Digital. Co-founder Zak Lefevre has a profile but no recorded talk.
Where is Ehsan Mokhtari based, and what is his current role?
No fetched page states where he lives; BetaKit (2022-05-19) describes ChargeLab as Toronto-based, and its about page, checked 2026-10-16, gives an Etobicoke, Ontario office. The most recent page naming his role is Charged EVs (2024-12-17), which quotes "ChargeLab CTO Ehsan Mokhtari". ChargeLab's about page and its 2025–2026 blog posts, checked 2026-10-16, name no team members, so no public page from 2025 or 2026 states his current role.