Francis Shen

Francis Shen is a Partner at Shen Capital Partners Inc., a growth equity firm focused on investing in micro-cap technology companies. Mr. Shen was the founder, Chairman, and Co-Chief Executive Officer of Aastra Technologies Ltd., an enterprise communications company that was sold to Mitel Networks Corporation in 2014. Over the 18 years as a public company, Mr. Shen led an aggressive M&A consolidation strategy raising $76 million and returning over $700 million to its shareholders. In 2000, Mr. Shen was named Ontario’s Entrepreneur of The Year in the Technology & Communications category by Ernst & Young. He holds a Master’s and Bachelor’s of Applied Science, both from the University of Toronto.