Gerri Sinclair serves as the Innovation Commissioner for the Government of

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. She was appointed in July 2020. Sinclair previously served as a Managing Director at Kensington Capital Partners and was the leader of the firm's Vancouver office, managing the $100 million BC Technology fund and the $91 million BC Renaissance Fund. She has also served as a Director on the Boards of numerous public and private companies and organizations. Sinclair holds a Ph.D. in Renaissance Drama as well as an honorary Doctor of Science in Computing Science from the

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. Sinclair was the founding Director of the ExCITE lab at

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, where she was an English professor. She was the founder and CEO of

NCompass Labs Inc NCompass Labs was a Vancouver-based software company that developed NCompass Resolution, a web content management software package. The company was acquired in 2001 by Microsoft for $36 million. History NCompass Labs was founded by Gerri Sinclair ...

, which was acquired by

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in 2001. She was General Manager for the

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Canada subsidiary. Sinclair has served on a number of Canadian national and provincial advisory boards, including the National Advisory Council on the Information Highway and the National Broadband Task Force. She was formerly President of the

Premier's Technology Council.

Awards

Sinclair was ranked in both 2016 and 2017 to the “Vancouver Power 50”, an annual list of the most powerful people in the city. She was named one of the top Women of Influence in 2017 by BC Business Magazine and one of the top 150 Women in Canada. In 2018, she received th
BC Technology Industry Association
��s Bill Thompson Lifetime Achievement Award, and received a Lifetime Achievement Award as most Influential Woman in Business in Vancouver in 2020.

References

External links

Masters of Digital Media Program Biography

Dr Gerri Sinclair interviewed by Microsoft's Channel 10

Microsoft Canada appoints Gerri Sinclair as New General Manager of MSN.ca

Canda 150 Women

BC Business 2017 Women of Influence - Gerri Sinclair

Gerri Sinclair of Kensington Capital
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