Mr. Rob Peets serves as Investment Director at TELUS Ventures. He is responsible for the evaluation of investment opportunities across a wide range of synergistic industries, as well as coordinating the financial analysis and valuation of prospective investment opportunities. He served as Board Observer at Sprout. Since joining TELUS in 2007, he has held positions in consumer product development (Optik TV and Satellite TV) and capital forecasting and governance. Prior to TELUS, he was an Assistant Vice President within the Technology Corporate Finance group at an international accounting firm and an Equity Research Analyst covering publicly listed technology, medical and industrial small-cap companies. He has an MBA from the Richard Ivey School of Business, is a CFA Charterholder, and a member of the Vancouver CFA Society. He is a board participant with a number of portfolio companies.