Primary Job Title Managing Partner & Founder Primary Organization Trellis Capital
Location Toronto, Ontario, Canada Regions Great Lakes Gender Male
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Sunil Selby is the Founder and Managing Partner of Trellis Capital Corporation. He plays an active role in the companies Trellis invests in, including assisting them with their go-to-market strategy and business development activities, especially if applicable to India
Prior to starting Trellis in May 2000, Sunil was Director of the Advanced
Technology Fund of Royal Bank Capital Partners, the venture capital subsidiary of Royal Bank of Canada. During his eleven-year tenure with the company, he invested in approximately 35 companies, structuring and negotiating deals, playing an active role as a Director on the Boards of these companies, influencing senior management effectively, and ultimately negotiating optimal exits.
Sunil is Chair and/or Director on the Boards of several of Trellis’s portfolio companies. He has been a Board member of the Canadian Private Equity and Venture Capital Association, and is currently on their Board’s International and Professional Development Committees. Sunil is on the Advisory Board of the Centre of Commercialization of Research of the Ontario Centres of Excellence and is also on the Investment Committee of the Investment Accelerator Fund.
Sunil has taught venture capital and private equity investing at the Rotman’s and the Michael de Groote School of Business, and guest lectures at these and the Schulich School of Business.
Sunil has an MBA from the Richard Ivey School of Business, and is a CA (India) and CGA (Ontario).
