Bios
Tony Redpath, Ph.D.
Business Advisor
MaRS Inc.
Tony Redpath was born in 1949 in London, England. He emigrated with his parents to Canada in 1954 and attended schools in Toronto, Ontario and St. Albert, Alberta. He attended the University of Alberta and received a B.Sc (Hon) degree in Chemistry in 1970. He followed that with a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry (molecular dynamics) from the University of Toronto in 1976 and completed his academic training with post doctoral fellowships in West Berlin (ion–molecule reactions) and Toronto (polymer dynamics).
He moved to industry as a research scientist at a small technology based company developing photo-degradable (litter-control) plastics as well as other environmental technologies. He ultimately became President of the company and managed it through the process of going public. Following his departure from EcoPlastics he served as a consultant on environmental materials issues to a range of companies/agencies in fields as diverse as forestry, health care, chemicals and transportation.
For the next ten years he worked for the Ontario Centres of Excellence in the materials and manufacturing area (OCE Inc. is a private not-for-profit corporation funded by government to create links between industry and universities by funding industrially relevant research collaborations and other activites). He played a number of roles at OCE Inc., from managing corporate communications to research project management to the commercialization of research results. He was particularly active in the creation of spin-off companies.
He left OCE Inc. to join Primaxis, a private early stage venture capital fund investing in technology start-ups. He has had responsibility for evaluating investment opportunities, negotiating investments and managing the relationships with investee companies. While still acting as a Managing Partner at Primaxis, he has taken on the additional role of Business Advisor to MaRS Inc., an Ontario based convergence centre active in the medical sciences and related technology areas.
He is married with two young children, aged 14 and 12. He is an avid amateur naturalist and spends as much leisure time as possible at the family hobby farm raising bees, building bird houses, making maple syrup, catching frogs with/for the aforementioned children, cutting cross country ski trails and otherwise generally messing about.
