About
As an engineer, Mr. MacKellar started his career with NEI Parsons, a division of Rolls Royce that designed turbines and generators for power generation. For the past sixteen years, Mr. MacKellar has been running venture backed startup companies. Most recently, as President and CEO, he successfully sold BrightSide Technologies to Dolby Laboratories for an annualized return for investors of 45-60%. Prior to this, he was President/CEO of NxtPhase, raising $57 million in venture capital and building relationships with GE, Honeywell and Mitsubishi as well as the three largest Canadian utilities and three of the larger U.S. utilities. Mr. MacKellar holds a metallurgy degree from Sheffield University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Position in the VCSift Database
- • 5 investors at Chrysalix Venture Capital are tracked.
- • 1,801 investors hold the Managing Director role in VCSift. Richard MacKellar is one of them.
- • 819 investors are based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Data sourced from 410,343 investor profiles. Updated July 2026.
Investment Focus
- Location
- Vancouver, Canada
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