Steven E. Parry

Steven E. Parry is a member of NGEN Partners, LLC. A professional geologist, Mr. Parry worked in the minerals industry for more than 25 years in a series of North American and international management roles. His pioneering efforts popularized a venture capital approach to early stage investment in the mining business. He's held senior management positions at two startup companies and has significant operations level experience.

Mr. Parry managed two portfolios prior to his role at NGEN. At Billiton PLC (and post merger BHP Billiton the largest multinational mining company), Parry was Vice President Business Development and General Manager, Innovation for the company's exploration subsidiary responsible for their global portfolio of startup equity investments primarily in copper and specialty metals businesses. Parry founded a technology venture fund at BHP in 2001 and was the in house lead on four of the fund's five investments. All five firms continue to actively progress their businesses.

Mr. Parry is a BSc. Graduate of Queen's University at Kingston Ontario and a MSc. graduate from the University of Western Ontario , London Ontario . He participated in extensive executive education training over the past five years at Harvard, Columbia , Wharton, the London Business School and Cooper Management Institute, and has conducted netotiation training for international teams at Billiton . Awards include the Canada 125 medal conferred by Canada 's Governor General for work as Founder and Chairman of Save Our North, an activist group involved in promoting the interests of northern resource communities. Currently, Mr. Parry is a board member at Pionetics, Artificial Muscle, Cerox and psiloQuest, and board observer at Powerspan and InMat.