Jim Fletcher

Managing Director

 

Jim has spent over 25 years in the venture capital industry. His initial nine years were on the VC fund side as a founding partner with Chrysalix Executive Chairman Mike Brown of Ventures West, Canada's largest technology VC fund at the time. He went on to become an individual VC investor while also working on the operations side, playing a variety of interim CEO, CFO and other roles as required.

 

Jim has specialized in actively founding, funding and assisting companies through various stages of growth - from financing, management team development and market positioning in early-stage companies to corporate finance and organizational issues at later stages of growth. He was a co-founder of Spectrum Signal Processing and CEO of China Capital, and served as CFO of Angus Reid Group, Canada's largest market research firm, and managed the sale of that company to Ipsos S.A. of France. Before taking an interest in the VC industry, Jim started his professional career as an Investment Banker with Morgan Stanley & Co., from where he moved to become Director, Corporate Finance and Treasurer with MacMillan Bloedel.

 

Jim divides his time between serving on the Boards of three Chrysalix investees and providing overall guidance to the Chrysalix funds, serving on the Boards of technology companies in industries unrelated to Chrysalix, and a variety of social enterprise Boards and activities including being co-founder of BC’s chapter of Social Venture Partners, which has developed into one of the top performers within the SVPI universe.

 

Mr. Fletcher has an Honours Degree in Engineering Physics from Queen's University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.