Kevin Talbot

Kevin is Vice President, Royal Bank of Canada, and Managing Director of the RBC Venture Partners group where he oversees North American venture capital and growth equity investments in information technology and financial services made on behalf of RBC. Kevin is also the co-managing partner of the BlackBerry Partners Fund, a mobile applications and services fund anchored by investments from RIM, RBC and Thomson Reuters.

Kevin has a long track record as an entrepreneur and operator in the information technology industry in both Canada and the USA where he developed extensive start-up, growth and turn-around experience. He has held a number of executive positions including Chairman, CEO, CIO, and VP Operations, Business Development, Marketing and Corporate Development. He has founded or been part of the management teams of four venture-backed start-ups including a web-based financial services technology company based in Boston that was incubated by RBC. Kevin began his career as an associate with a leading chartered accounting and management consulting firm.

Kevin sits on the boards of Brickstream, Lumeta, Tacit, Tricipher and Igloo. He also served on the boards of Thor Technologies (acquired by Oracle), iPhrase Technologies (acquired by IBM) and Inea Corp. (acquired by Cartesis), Infobright Inc. and CashEdge. He is Chairman of the Financial Services Venture Capital Alliance and is a Trustee of Toronto Montessori Schools.

In addition to actively managing a venture capital portfolio, Kevin holds an appointment as Adjunct Professor of Entrepreneurial Studies at the Schulich School of Business (York University) in Toronto.

Kevin holds the ICD.D designation and is a graduate of the Institute of Corporate Directors’ Corporate Governance College (Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto). He obtained his MBA, with distinction, from York University. He also holds a BA degree in Strategic Studies.