Kevin Talbot

Kevin is Co-Managing Partner of the BlackBerry Partners Fund™ in addition to being Managing Director of RBC Venture Partners where he oversees North American venture capital investments in early-stage enterprise software and services companies. Kevin has a long and successful 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.

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), Inea Corp. (acquired by Cartesis), Infobright Inc. and CashEdge (acquired by SIG). He is Chairman of the Financial Services Venture Capital Alliance and is a Trustee of Toronto Montessori Schools. Kevin also 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. 

kevin.talbot@blackberrypartnersfund.com