Howard Riback

Howard joined Sectoral in 2015 as Director, Private Equity providing financial and legal support to the investment officers including financial due diligence, business legal review, and transaction documentation negotiation.

Howard was formerly a member of the Statistics and Valuation Committee for the Canadian Venture Capital & Private Equity Association (CVCA). He holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of British Columbia and is a Chartered Accountant.

Prior to Sectoral, he was Chief Financial Officer at Chrysalix, a cleantech-focused venture fund since 2013. Between 1991 and 2013, he was Partner and CFO at Ventures West, a leading Canadian venture capital firm where he was involved in raising and managing six technology and life science venture capital funds.

Before joining Ventures West in 1991, he held a senior financial position with one of the largest property development and management companies in Vancouver and was directly involved with many acquisitions. Prior to that, he was Manager, Taxation Services with Coopers & Lybrand (predecessor to PricewaterhouseCoopers).