Robin Axon joined Ventures West in 2001 and leads the firm’s communications investments in the Ottawa region. Prior to joining Ventures West, Robin was at MD Robotics (formerly Spar Aerospace) and the Canadian Space Agency where he helped to prepare the Canadarm2 for installation onto the International Space Station.

Robin’s past investments include Chantry Networks, developer of Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) infrastructure products, acquired in 2004 by Siemens (NYSE: SI).

Robin currently serves as a Director of AudienceView Software and QuickPlay Media, Chairman of RapidMind Inc. and Observer of Fortiva Inc. and Peleton Photonics. Robin is an active supporter of entrepreneurship and participates on the Boards and committees of such organizations as the Ottawa Venture Technology Summit and the CVCA. He is the co-founder of the CVCA´s Young Venture Capitalists (YVC) Committee.

Robin holds a B.A.S. in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Toronto and an MBA from Queen´s University.

Location: Ottawa, ON

QuickPlay Media - QuickPlay Media provides content management and service delivery solutions for mobile television and video services. www.quickplay.com

RapidMind - RapidMind provides a development and runtime platform that enables software organizations to fully exploit the parallel power of multi-core and stream processors, including Intel and AMD CPUs, GPUs and the Cell BE. www.rapidmind.net