Thomas Park - Partner at BDC Deep Tech Fund and Co-founder of Asian Canadian Ventures Collective

Thomas Park is a leader in global venture capital and is a Partner at the BDC Deep Tech Fund and the Co-founder of Asian Canadian Ventures Collective. Tom has been at the BDC since 2017 and currently leads a $200M venture capital fund that invests in Canadian startups developing cutting edge technology including quantum computers.

Previously, Tom served 5 years at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and McKinsey & Co., where he had the opportunity to oversee numerous special projects across both the public and private sector. For the first eight years of his career, Tom put his law degree to good use as a consultant to the International Criminal Court (aka The Hague), and at the United Nations Khmer Rouge Tribunal in Cambodia.

Tom is a graduate of Dartmouth College’s Tuck School of Business, Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, and McGill University. He sits on a number of boards at McGill, Ryerson University, and as chair of the Banff Forum. He was recognized for his leadership when he was selected as one of Canada’s Top 40 Under 40 in 2017. In 2022, Tom co-founded the Asian Canadian Venture Collective that helps bring together Canadians of Asian heritage working in tech.

In this episode, you will learn:

How Tom's upbringing as the only minority in his neighborhood made him more resilient and resourceful
About the Christmas Day revelation that motivated Tom to leave his early success in corporate law
Where Tom's thinks we are in the GenAI hype cycle

You can follow Tom on LinkedIn and learn more about the Asian Canadian Ventures Collective at https://ac-vc.ca/.