robert giles
Venture Investor / Partner
robert giles
Venture Investor / Partner
Greater Calgary Metropolitan Area
Overview
Work Experience
Mentor
2023 - Current
The BMO Mentorship Program (offered by the Canadian Centre for Advanced Leadership in Business) gives students the opportunity to learn from business professionals. This program allows students to facilitate personal development, establish a professional network, and gain knowledge in their field of interest
Venture Partner, co-Founder
2020
We are a Seed, Series A and Secondary VC firm & collective supporting big thinking entrepreneurs around the globe through both passive and active investments across a wide number of verticals
Advisor
2022
PureWeb is a platform to orchestrate and deliver graphically and compute intensive workloads such as 3D graphics, simulations, IoT, spatial audio, XR and AI Powered by an extensible protocol-agnostic, cross-cloud, edge compute engine, PW is the critical delivery layer that allows real-time data and content to be experienced by users on any device, anywhere, at scale
Venture Partner
2017
CE Venture Capital is a rare breed of venture capital investor We invest in high quality teams with revolutionary ideas and innovative products and services But that is not what makes us unique We don’t make you pitch to us in an elevator We don’t require warm referrals to review a business idea We are not afraid to invest in transformational ideas born from big thinkers We support early stage ideas and concepts We support growth and build out We support acceleration and scale into new markets We are industry, stage and geographically agnostic From Seed rounds through Series C+ From Smart Cities, Industrial IoT, FinTech and Life Sciences to Security, AI, Clean Tech and High Performance Compute To date, we have invested in big thinking entrepreneurs in 9 countries We want to support entrepreneurial communities to become true ecosystems, to grow and mature into their full potential To diversify economies for future generations, to displace static, outdated thinking resistant to change and embrace the innovators, dreamers and passionate entrepreneurs and provide them with opportunity We want to be part of an open community, an ecosystem supercharged by the tribe and banded together with entrepreneurs, mentors and other advisors. We want to build a culture of assistance, support and collective insights. We want to bring together developers, idea generators, leaders, marketing experts, financial gurus and construct collision spaces for them to create, design, build and succeed The values we uphold and the people we surround ourselves with are central to everything we do If you are a big thinker We hope to hear from you
Board Member
2020
Verdigris is an AI-driven energy management system for commercial/ industrial buildings and data centers
Board Observer
2019
Vyrill is an AI-powered analytics company
Board Advisor
2019
zGlue is a semiconductor/EDA company with an enabling platform and process for building custom semiconductor chips * Company exit to foreign investment company
VP Business Development Officer & Interim CFO
2008 - 2018
CapitalEnergy Corporation (CEC) is a private investment company. CEC closed a $118 million private equity round and entered into an agreement with a private equity sponsor to jointly capitalize a C$500 million investment fund. Responsibilities: strategy formulation; sourced and closed numerous investments and acquisitions; led multi-disciplinary team in due diligence, operations and business development efforts; lead team member for industry, legal, finance partners and third party advisors. CFO responsibilities included oversight of annual capital budgets, forecasting and tracking of KPIs and operating metrics, financial modelling, review of annual financial audits, MD&A, arranging credit facilities and leading relationship with financial lenders.
Vice President Investment Banking
2006 - 2008
A boutique, employee-owned Investment Banking and Research firm; Originated and led numerous corporate advisory, financing and M&A mandates for private and public companies across multiple sectors
Vice President Investment Banking
2003 - 2006
A diversified Investment Banking and Financial Services firm with over $60 billion in assets; Originated and led numerous corporate advisory, financing and M&A mandates for private and public companies across multiple sectors