Alistair Mitchell

Alistair Mitchell is venture capitalist and successful entrepreneur, corporate executive, and software services innovator. Co-Founder and President, Generation Ventures, and former Investment Director at the MaRS Investment Accelerator Fund, my prior experience was as both a start-up founder and large enterprise executive. At Blackberry, He managed business strategy, product marketing, software engineering, and business development in consecutive VP responsibilities for multimedia, instant messaging (BBM), and portfolio consumer services. Before Blackberry, I was Co-Founder and CEO of Puretracks, a pioneering digital music service that exited to Bell Canada. Early career experience included public radio and corporate communications. He holds an MBA (Bregman’s Scholar) from the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management, and a Bachelor of Music (Rosenthal Award) McGIll University.