Patrick Pichette has over 30 years of financial and operating expertise. He has led world-class companies like Google, McKinsey, Sprint Canada, and Bell Canada to break through the complexities of “hyper-growth” and digital transformations.
As global Chief Financial Officer of Google from 2008 to 2015, Mr. Pichette played a leadership role in Google’s growth agenda and ultimately supported the creation of the Alphabet structure. As part of Google’s executive committee, he was involved in Google’s extensive corporate mergers and acquisitions agenda, engaging in close to 150 acquisitions, including Nest and Motorola.
In addition, Mr. Pichette has been an independent investor, advisor, and board member to a number of startups and innovation networks around the world, including Arctoris, LabGenius, and Creative Destruction Labs. He was also a director at Cohere, WealthSimple, Hopper, and Neo4J, and served as Chair of Twitter’s Board of Directors prior to the sale of the company in 2022. In 2018, he joined Inovia Capital, a Montreal-based venture capital firm investing in promising Canadian tech companies, where he led its European office in London.
Mr. Pichette holds a Master of Arts in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics from the University of Oxford, where he attended as a Rhodes Scholar, and a Bachelor of Business Administration from the Université du Québec à Montréal.