Invests in
Locations:
Min Investment:
$2,000,000.00Max Investment:
$5,000,000.00Target Investment:
$3,500,000.00
Skills
Education
Lists including Alison
Investments
Work Experience
2024
Chief Executive Officer
2024
2013 - 2024
Senior Vice President Fund Investments and Global Scaling
2021 - 2024
Vice President, Fund Investments and Global Scaling
2018 - 2021
Vice President, Fund Investments
2018 - 2021
Managing BDC Capital's balance fund investments program of more than 65 fund relationships. BDC Capital is the risk capital subsidiary of the Business Development Bank of Canada.
Vice President, Global Scaling
2017 - 2018
As Vice President, Global Scaling based in Hong Kong, led initiatives to support BDC Capital's high potential investee companies to grow and scale their business and investment partners in the Asia region. Also worked to support Canadian private equity and venture capital fund managers who were looking to scale their investment activities and institutional investor partners in the Asia region.
Vice President, Co-investments and Government Initiatives
2015 - 2016
Lead the private equity and venture capital co-investment program for BDC Capital, the wholly owned risk capital subsidiary of the Business Development Bank of Canada. Also oversee the Venture Capital Action Plan, a $1.2 billion venture Fund of Fund program established by the Government of Canada in partnership with private institutional investors to encourage greater private capital flows into the VC asset class.
Vice President, Venture Capital Action Plan
2013 - 2015
Lead the private equity and venture co-investment activities of BDC Capital, the wholly owned risk capital subsidiary of the Business Development Bank of Canada. In addition, oversee the Venture Capital Action Plan, a $1.2 billion national Fund of Funds venture program established by the Canadian federal government to encourage private capital investment in the VC asset class.
2019 - 2023
Chair and Board Member
2019 - 2023
2012 - 2013
Director, Funds Asia
2012 - 2013
responsible for OTPP's private equity fund relationships in Asia.
1998 - 2012
Principal, Head of Funds and Asia
2007 - 2012
Managed EDC's global portfolio of more than 60 private equity fund relationships with a special focus on the build out and management of EDC's private equity and venture capital funds in Asia.
Senior Portfolio Manager
2007 - 2011
built out and managed EDC's private equity and venture fund relationships in Asia.
Financing Manager
2004 - 2007
Chief Representative, Greater China
2000 - 2004
Regional Manager, China
1998 - 2000
1996 - 1998
Project Economist
1996 - 1998
1991 - 1997
Senior Business Editor and Writer
1991 - 1997
1989 - 1990
Economic Research Analyst
1989 - 1990