Rick Nathan has been appointed president of the Canadian Venture Capital Association, replacing Dr Robin Louis who becomes chairman of its board of directors. Nathan is managing director of Goodmans Venture Group. Prior to Goodmans, he was one of three founding partners of Brightspark, a Toronto-based, early-stage software investment fund. Nathan is also director of the Centre for Innovation Law and Policy at the Univ of Toronto. He holds a BA in computer science from Dartmouth College and an LLB from the Univ of Toronto....