Richard Mackellar

Founder & CEO

2024

Celerity, like GlassPoint, is a company that can have a vast impact in reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Celerity revolutionizes marine transporation by providing higher speed with lower energy, leading to easy electrification and zero emissions. Customers get from A to B faster, in greater comfort and without damaging the environment. The economics are compelling. I'm thrilled to be a founding member of the Celerity team.

Advisor

2021

Board Member

2021

Adjunct Professor

2015

Teach Entrepreneurial Finance on the UBC MBA Program using the highly interactive case study method. Teach Introduction to Entrepreneurship on the UBC IMBA Program at Jiao Tong University in Shanghai

Managing Partner

2007 - 2022

Chrysalix is an early stage, technology venture capital firm located in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. We specialize in alternative energy and clean technology investments. Board director of portfolio copmanies, Minesense, HaiLa, Rockburst Technologies, DTE, GlassPoint, The NanoSteel Corporation, Enbala Power Systems, Lightbased Technologies and Bridgelux, and board observer to Primus Power and Liminal (formerly Feasible).

CEO

2003 - 2007

BrightSide was an intellectual property company developing advanced imaging technologies to improve the dynamic range to cameras, TVs and monitors, along with file storage, compression and processing technologies associated with still and moving images. BrightSide was acquired by Dolby Laboratories.

CEO

1997 - 2003

NxtPhase developed optical instrumentation equipment for the control and measurement of electric power at high voltages and currents. Customers included electric utilities, aluminum smelters, chlorine plants and other high users of power.

VP Engineering

1991 - 1996

This metal bashing business produced customized food service equipment in stainless steel and millwork. While the product was fairly mundane, the application of automated processes to a custom product was fascinating and put Kevry at the forefront of being a demonstration site for Sun Microsystems, Silicon Graphics, Symix BRP software, Optimation software, ProEngineer, as well as Amada lasers, punches and brakes.

Various

1984 - 1991

As a young metallurgist I worked for NEI Parsons, then a part of Rolls-Royce. A two year graduate engineering apprenticeship was followed by working on turbines and generators for electric power generation, including Drax, the largest coal fired power station in Europe and Bruce, one of the largest nuclear power station in the world, located in Ontario, Canada. After being a member of the winning team in the British Institute of Management's Young Manager of the Year ("Challenge '86), Rolls-Royce were kind enough to sponsor my MBA studies. After two years in Boston a move to Canada, working for Ferranti Packard, was in the cards, where I found myself the youngest member of an experienced management team supplying power transformers to the electric power industry. Roles increased in responsibility over the two years I was station in St. Catharines.

Various

1985 - 1989