Tyler Williams has left Shell Ventures, the corporate venturing unit for petroleum supplier Shell, to become an executive committee member of Canada-based investment partnership Natural Gas Innovation Fund (NGIF).
Williams had been an investment principal at Shell Ventures since 2017, having joined the corporate in 2013 before taking a Canada-based global technology leader position in 2015 to lead the development of its industrial internet-of-things strategy.
Deals in which Williams was involved include a $2.8m round for Canada-based oil and gas infrastructure platform developer Osprey Informatics, which the unit co-led last month.
Shell Canada joined six other Canada-based gas producers to pledge C$3m ($2.26m) last month to support NGIF’s initiative to back companies attempting to develop cleaner methods of power generation using gas.
NGIF’s portfolio includes gas turbine-enabled heat and power system developer NextGrid, renewable hydrogen energy system developer Hydrogenics and adsorption-based cooling technology developer Enersion.
Photo of Tyler Williams courtesy of LinkedIn.
