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Richard MacKellar |
Richard MacKellar is the most recent addition to the Chrysalix team. He is a serial entrepreneur who has worked with Chrysalix team members for a decade. As an engineer Richard started his career with NEI Parsons, a division of Rolls Royce that designed turbines and generators for power generation. He worked on Drax, the largest coal fired power station in Europe and Bruce, the largest Nuclear station in the world. Rolls Royce fully funded his MBA studies where he moved from England to Boston, then continued working for Rolls Royce in Canada, again supplying power equipment to the electric utility industry.
For the past sixteen years Richard has been running venture backed startup companies. Most recently, as President and CEO, he successfully sold BrightSide Technologies to Dolby Laboratories for an annualized return for investors of 45-60%. Prior to this he was President/CEO of NxtPhase, raising $57 million in venture capital and building relationships with GE, Honeywell and Mitsubishi as well as the three largest Canadian utilities and three of the larger US utilities.
Richard holds a Metallurgy Degree from Sheffield University and an MBA from Harvard Business School
