Mr. Jackson steps into the Accelerator Centre CEO role, which had been held by Dr. Tom Corr, who has recently been appointed President and CEO of the Ontario Centres of Excellence. Tim Jackson previously served as Vice-Chair of the Accelerator Centre board of directors.

Jackson, an experienced entrepreneur, is co-founder and partner of Tech Capital Partners, a Waterloo-based venture capital firm focused on building world-class technology companies - specifically in the wireless, communications, new media and Internet sectors.  Prior to Tech Capital Partners, Mr. Jackson was CFO and CEO of PixStream, where he successfully raised more than $60 million in equity capital and negotiated the $550 million sale of the company to Cisco - one of the largest technology company acquisitions in Canadian history.

Mr. Jackson will assume his new Accelerator Centre and University of Waterloo responsibilities in addition to continuing in his partner role with Tech Capital Partners.  

"We are tremendously pleased to welcome Tim Jackson into the Accelerator Centre's CEO role.  I have had the privilege of working with Tim at the Board level for a number of years, and his work at Tech Capital Partners in support of entrepreneurs and in commercializing and funding emerging technologies has positioned him for this new, expanded role with the Accelerator Centre and University of Waterloo.  Our AC team and Clients could have no better mentor or leader.  Tim fully embodies the success we are building our Clients toward each day at the AC," says Accelerator Centre Chair of the Board, Ian McPhee.

University of Waterloo President, David Johnston added his congratulations to Tim Jackson on his UW co-appointment.

"We are thrilled to welcome Tim Jackson to UW's commercialization team and to the Accelerator Centre.  His dynamism and passion for entrepreneurship have been instrumental in building Waterloo Region's technology leadership on the world stage, and his hands-on leadership will be invaluable in advancing commercialization technologies incubated within the university setting."

University of Waterloo Vice-President of University Research, George Dixon, provided additional congratulations:   

"Tim's technology leadership and success in commercializing technology is simply inspiring. His extensive expertise and insight will be a great asset not only to colleagues at the University of Waterloo, but also to those in the broader academic community across the region."