Chief Investment Officer
InBC Investment Corp

1. Experience & Expertise:

• Leadership (Managing Partner, Partner, or equivalent) experience in direct and fund venture capital investing including having investment authority and portfolio management experience.
• Demonstrated investment leadership, including guiding teams and setting strategic investment direction.
• Experience managing a portfolio of early-stage companies to achieve optimal returns while managing risk. Ideally brings background providing counsel and strategic advice to portfolio companies and their management teams. 
• Tenure working with a Board of Directors, an understanding of public sector, and familiarity with Crown corporation governance would be a significant asset.

2. Expertise:

• Extensive knowledge of financial markets, investment strategies, and portfolio management principles. 
• Expertise developing and implementing an organization’s investment strategy.
• Experience identifying, assessing and mitigating investment risks, ensuring portfolio is appropriately diversified and aligned with IPS.
• Strong analytical and quantitative skills to assess investment opportunities, evaluate performance, and manage risk effectively. 

3. Leadership:

• An effective team leader. Demonstrated ability to build a collegial and collaborative culture.
• Comfortable providing strategic leadership as well as playing a hands-on role within a small and nimble team.
• A coach and mentor who can recruit and build a team of future leaders.
• Provides timely and constructive feedback while recognizing and celebrating the contributions of the team.

4. Strategic:

• Demonstrated ability to think strategically in broad future terms; sees the big picture in which an organization functions.
• Highly strategic and analytical in their approach; able to assess the landscape of BC and develop a strategy and identify sectors and companies in BC with a comparative advantage to ensure maximum impact.
• Able to draw upon market dynamics and macro trends and think through future implications and weigh the benefits and risks associated with potential actions.

5. Relationships:

• • Executive presence. Possesses strong communication skills and the ability to engage with a variety of stakeholders and excellent interpersonal skills.
  • Highly influential. Able to effectively influence and lead a diverse range of stakeholders including in the investment community, partners, and advisors.
  • Able to build a strong network and foster meaningful partnerships across the BC business and investment communities.
  • Able to build trusting relationships with people from different communities and backgrounds. Culturally sensitive and internationally aware.
  • Demonstrates exceptional collaboration skills and the ability to be flexible to the needs of the organization including the unique partnership with InBC’s Chief Executive Officer.

6. Communication:

• Demonstrates exceptional written and oral communication skills.
• Persuasive and compelling. Able to articulate and promote the objectives and value proposition of InBC.
• Can translate complex concepts into lay language and communicate with audiences from all different backgrounds and cultures.

7. Style:

• Passionate and motivated to build an organization that creates a real impact in BC.
• Unquestioned integrity. Understands the role of a fiduciary and steward of taxpayer funds.
• Ability to develop an understanding of new business environments in a timely manner.
• Demonstrates positivity and resiliency. Maintains calmness and objectivity even in challenging times. Persistently and proactively pursues desired organizational outcomes.
• Able to cope with ambiguity, set priorities and juggle multiple tasks.
• Ability to work in a complex, multi-stakeholder environment.