Chris Albinson

Mr. Albinson is one of the five founding Partners of Panorama Capital, a venture capital firm being formed by the JPMP venture capital team. Prior to joining Panorama / JPMP, he was Chief Strategy Officer at Digital Island (ISLD – Acquired by C&W) and CSO at C&W. Previously, Albinson has held corporate development roles at Newbridge Networks and did telecom services consulting in Russia. Albinson’s activities included raising $250M in private equity, $1.5B in M&A transactions, and managing a corporate venture capital fund of 28 companies in a broad range of technologies. His investments included Juniper Networks (JNPR), Cambrian Systems (acquired by Nortel), Abatis Systems (acquired by Redback), Fastlane Technologies (acquired by Quest Software), BNI Systems (acquired by Nortel) and PixStream (acquired by Cisco). He sits on Board of Directors at Affinity Internet, Greenfield Networks, Reflectivity, Valere Power and Belair Networks. Albinson is also on the Advisory Board for Partners for Growth, a venture lending firm backed by Silicon Valley Bank.

Albinson holds an undergraduate degree and an MBA from the University of Western Ontario where he taught and published works in the areas of business strategy & corporate governance.