Keith Gillard
Principal, BASF Venture Capital America

Mr. Gillard is Principal of BASF Venture Capital America, establishing a new North American investment centre for BASF in the San Francisco Bay Area. For the previous five years, he was with Mitsubishi Corporation, responsible for its technology-related investment and business development activities in Canada, with a specific focus on cleantech. Mr. Gillard was the only non-Japanese member of the Mitsubishi Corporation Fuel Cell Business Development Office in Tokyo, and was instrumental in establishing Japanese markets and partners for several Canadian and American cleantech companies. Prior to joining Mitsubishi, Mr. Gillard began his career in investment banking, structuring mergers and acquisitions as well as technology joint ventures into China. In the late ?90?s, he had a five-year spell as an entrepreneur in IT, establishing three companies in succession and taking them from business plan through financing to completion of product and exit. Mr. Gillard currently sits on the boards of Chrysalix Energy Limited Partnerships I and II, Pangaea Ventures II Ltd., and Sciona Inc., and is a board observer for Arcadia Biosciences Inc., Luca Technologies LLC, and SDCmaterials LLC.