Jim Fletcher

Mr. Fletcher has spent over 20 years in the venture capital industry, initially for nine years on the VC fund side as a founding partner with Chrysalix's Executive Chairman Mike Brown of Ventures West Management Inc., one of Canada's largest technology VC funds. Later he became an individual VC while also working on the operations side, playing a wide variety of interim CEO, CFO or other roles as required. He has been a Director of many companies, and President of several through their start-up and early development stages.

He 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. Mr. Fletcher was a co-founder of Spectrum Signal Processing, CEO at Vector 12, 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, Mr. Fletcher 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.

Mr. Fletcher has an honors degree in Engineering Physics from Queen's University and a Masters Degree in Business Administration from Harvard Business School.