Richard Nathan

Rick Nathan is a Kensington Managing Director and a member of the Investment Committee and Advisory Board and is the Co-Chair of the Canadian Innovation Exchange (CIX). Rick serves as a Board member (or observer) of Public Mobile Holdings Inc., D-Wave Systems Inc. and Blue Ant Media Inc., and is on the Advisory Board of the Novacap and Vanedge (Chair) funds. He is also a member of the Small and Medium Enterprise Committee (SMEC) established by the Ontario Securities Commission. Rick served as President and Chair of CVCA – Canada’s Venture Capital and Private Equity Association between 2005-2012.Rick was previously a founding partner of Brightspark Ventures, a Toronto venture capital fund focused on incubating early stage technology companies, and the Managing Director of Goodmans Venture Group, a strategic advisory and investment division of Goodmans LLP. Rick also spent more than 10 years as a corporate and securities lawyer at Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP, including as leader of the firm’s Technology Business Group.Rick holds a B.A. (Computer Science) from Dartmouth College and an LL.B. from the University of Toronto, Faculty of Law.