Ben Sanders (b. 1983)
Ben Sanders is an engineer who helped to build the BlackBerry, Canadarm, and the Atlas detector at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. He lived in Manitoba before moving to Yukon in 2013 where he became a senior advisor with Yukon Department of Economic Development. He co-founded YuKonstruct and hosted Hacking Health North in June 2014. In October, he ran unsuccessfully against Larry Bagnell as a candidate in the election of Yukon’s Liberal Party leader.1)