Donna Parr

Ms. Parr has over 25 years’ experience in venture and private equity investing and fund raising and corporate finance working for Canadian Medical Discoveries Fund, Canada Pension Plan (CPP), TD Capital, Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System (OMERS), Canadian Corporate Funding Ltd, Trivest Insurance Network (a Trilon company) and Continental Illinois Bank. She currently manages the GrowthWorks Canadian Fund through Crimson Capital. She headed the Direct Equity group for four of her twelve years at OMERS making direct debt, venture capital and private equity investments. She has served on 30 boards of private companies on behalf of institutional investors and is a Director of CellAegis Devices, an early stage medical device company she helped found. As President of Crimson Capital, an OSC registered Exempt Market Dealer, she has worked with a number of technology and growth companies to build their businesses and has been involved in numerous equity capital raises and securing of government grants and loans. She also holds an MBA from York University and Masters and Honors degrees from the University of Toronto in International Relations.