Kristi Simpson

Kristi Simpson is the Vice-President Finance and Operations (VPFO) at the University of Victoria, appointed to the role effective June 1, 2022 after serving as Acting VPFO from December 2020. She is a UVic graduate, earning a Bachelor of Arts in Economics (1989), and is a professional accountant holding the CPA, CA designation. As a student she also played four years of varsity volleyball for the UVic Vikes.

She has spent most of her career in educational financial administration, including roles at two BC school districts and the University of Northern British Columbia before joining UVic in 2003. At UVic she held positions including Director of Budget and Capital Planning and, from 2005 to 2022, Associate Vice-President Financial Planning and Operations, giving her roughly two decades at the institution by the time of her promotion. As VPFO she leads the university's finance, budgeting, capital planning, and operational functions. President Kevin Hall described her at appointment as "a principled leader who uses her extraordinary integrity in the many decisions she makes."

Beyond her executive role, Simpson holds fiduciary governance positions over UVic's staff pension plan assets — chairing the Investments & Administration Committee and the Advisory Committee and sitting on the Governance Committee. This pension/endowment oversight function is the likely origin of the "investor" and "Investments Committee" language in third-party databases; it reflects institutional fund stewardship rather than early-stage or angel investing. There is no evidence she operates as an angel investor or writes seed-stage checks into startups.

She describes herself as "an inclusive, mission and priorities driven collaborative leader" and emphasizes the VPFO team's responsibility, as stewards of the traditional territory of the lək̓ʷəŋən peoples, to engage with and uplift Indigenous leadership and knowledge. Outside the office she enjoys hiking, skiing, golfing, travel, and walking her dog.

• No public startup/angel investment thesis exists; the "Seed Round" and "Angel Investors" tags in the source stub are not supported by any primary source.
• Her actual financial mandate is institutional: overseeing the University of Victoria's operating budget, capital planning, and finance operations as VPFO.
• Her fund-related work is fiduciary governance of the UVic staff pension plan — as Chair of the Investments & Administration Committee, she helps oversee the plan's asset allocation, administration, and long-term stewardship rather than making direct company investments.