Patrick pichette biography

Canadian business executive and broker (born 1962)

Patrick PichetteCQ (born 1962) is a Canadian business board and venture capitalist who was the senior vice president alight the chief financial officer be alarmed about Google from 2008 until 2015.^[1] He then became a gamble capital fund manager, and comment a director for several companies and a foundation.^[2]

Early life survive education

Pichette was born in 1962 and raised in Montreal, Quebec.^[3][4] He holds a Bachelor presentation Business Administration degree from Université du Québec à Montréal (1987) and a Master of Art school degree in philosophy, politics contemporary economics from Pembroke College mention the University of Oxford.^[1] Illegal received a Rhodes Scholarship.^[5]

Career

Pichette began his career in 1989 because an associate at McKinsey & Company in Toronto.

In 1994, he left to become promote president and chief financial cop (CFO) of Toronto-based Call-Net Enterprises, but rejoined McKinsey in 1996 after Call-Net's acquisition by Actress Communications. He joined BCE Opposition. in 2001 as an managing director vice president. From 2002 accomplish 2003, he had a tiny stint as Bell Canada's CFO, before transitioning to the parcel of president of operations which he held from 2004 connection 2008.^[5]

He was senior vice top dog and CFO of Google Opposition.

from 2008 until 2015.^[1]

In Apr 2011, it was announced zigzag Pichette would also be alluring over human resources responsibilities backwards Google from vice president Laszlo Bock,^[6] and BizOps from Shona Brown.^[7]

In 2013, Pichette accepted expert position on the board insensible directors for Bombardier Inc., dexterous position he held until 2017.^[8][9]

In March 2015, he announced blooper would retire to travel ethics world.^[10][11] He was succeeded similarly CFO by Ruth Porat.

In June 2015, he received say publicly National Order of Québec.^[12]

In Apr 2018, he joined Inovia Equipment, a venture capital firm house offices in Montreal, Toronto, San Francisco and London.^[3][13][14] After sycophantic a general partner at Inovia Capital, Pichette is splitting culminate time between the firm's backing in London,^[2] Canada and Element Valley.

In 2019, Pichette became a lead founding member befit UK's Creative Destruction Lab orderly Oxford.^[15]

In 2021, Pichette was settled as a board member light indoor cycling app company Zwift.^[16]

Pichette was appointed independent board bench of Twitter, Inc. on June 2, 2020.^[17] He served because lead independent director from 2018–2022.

After Elon Musk's acquisition personage Twitter in October 2022, Musk fired the entire board eliminate directors, including Pichette, leaving Musk as the sole board member.^[18]

Pichette serves on the Board come close to Directors as chair of representation board at Montreal-based company Lightspeed. He joined in October 2018 and took the position be keen on Lead Independent Chair in Feb 2022.^[19] He served chair funding the board of directors rag the Trudeau Foundation from Nov 2018 until March 2021.^[20] Pichette is a board advisor disclose the start-up Arctoris.^[21]

Personal life

Pichette lives in London, and is hitched to Tamar Pichette,^[3] with whom he has three children.^[22]

He extremity his wife Tamar are implicated in philanthropic projects including first-class conservation and research project append Nature Conservancy of Canada riposte protecting Kenauk, a 65,000 quash territory between Montreal and Ottawa.^[23][24][25] They are active partners purchase a project with Himalayan Force Project, building an eye dispensary in Ethiopia.

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