Patrick Pichette
 Patrick Pichette     (businessman) | |
|---|---|
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| Born | 1962 |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Alma mater | Université du Québec à Montréal, Oxford University |
| Member of | Rhodes Scholar/1987 |
| Interests | McKinsey |
Patrick Pichette was senior vice president and chief financial officer of Google from 2008 until 2015. He retired in 2015 and "spent two years traveling the world" with his wife.[1][2] He later became a general partner at iNovia Capital, a venture capital fund.
Pichette attended the 2018 Bilderberg.
Education
Pichette was born in 1962 and raised in Montreal, Quebec.[3][4] He holds a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from Université du Québec à Montréal (1987) and a Master of Arts degree in philosophy, politics and economics from Pembroke College of the University of Oxford.[5] He received a Rhodes Scholarship.[6]
Career
Pichette began his career in 1989 as an associate at McKinsey & Company in Toronto. In 1994, he left to become vice president and chief financial officer (CFO) of Toronto-based Call-Net Enterprises, but rejoined McKinsey in 1996. He joined BCE Inc. in 2001 as an executive vice president. From 2002 to 2003, he had a brief stint as Bell Canada's CFO, before transitioning to the role of president of operations which he held from 2004 to 2008.[6]
He was senior vice president and CFO of Google Inc. from 2008 until 2015.[5] In April 2011, it was announced that Pichette would also be taking over human resources responsibilities within Google from vice president Laszlo Bock,[7] and BizOps from Shona Brown.[8]
In March 2015, he announced he would retire to travel the world.[9][10] He was succeeded as CFO by Ruth Porat.
In April 2018, he joined Inovia Capital, a venture capital firm with offices in Montreal, Toronto, San Francisco and London.[3][11][12] After becoming a general partner at Inovia Capital, Pichette is splitting his time between the firm's offices in London, Canada and Silicon Valley.[13]
In 2019, Pichette became a lead founding member of UK's Creative Destruction Lab at Oxford.[14]
Pichette was appointed independent board chair of Twitter, Inc. on June 2, 2020.[15] He was lead independent director from 2018-2022. After Elon Musk's acquisition of Twitter in October 2022, Musk fired the entire board of directors, including Pichette[16]
Pichette sits on the Board of Directors as chair of the board at Montreal-based company Lightspeed. He joined in October 2018 and took the position of Lead Independent Chair in February 2022.[17] He was chair of the board of directors at the Trudeau Foundation from November 2018 until March 2021.[18]
Personal life
Pichette lives in London, and is married to Tamar Pichette,[3] with whom he has three children.[19]
Event Participated in
| Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bilderberg/2018 | 7 June 2018 | 10 June 2018 | Italy Turin Hotel Torino Lingotto Congress | The 66th Bilderberg Meeting, in Turin, Italy, known for months in advance after an unprecedented leak by the Serbian government. |
References
- ↑ https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2989916/Google-s-CFO-Patrick-Pichette-52-quits-travel-world-wife-perfectly-fine-midlife-crisis-bliss-beauty.html
- ↑ https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/15/patrick-pichette-former-google-cfo-joins-inovia-as-general-partner.html
- ↑ a b c https://web.archive.org/web/20180412082607/https://www.recode.net/2018/4/11/17219400/patrick-pichette-google-cfo-venture-capital
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20221127175539/https://www.inovia.vc/inovia-conversations/the-times-they-are-a-changin/
- ↑ a b https://www.google.com/intl/en/press/pressrel/ir_20080625.html
- ↑ a b https://web.archive.org/web/20230922061548/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/technology/googles-canadian-cfo-ready-to-embark-on-an-early-retirement/article23412646/
- ↑ http://www.hrgrapevine.com/markets/hr/article/2011-04-14-google-cfo-to-take-on-hr-duties/
- ↑ http://allthingsd.com/20110411/more-googquake-aftershocks-cfo-patrick-pichette-adds-bizops-and-hr-to-his-duties/
- ↑ https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2015/03/10/google-patrick-pichette-retiring/24719533/
- ↑ https://plus.google.com/+PatrickPichette/posts/8Khr5LnKtub
- ↑ "INovia Sngas CFOs from Google and Blackberry to Lead Growth Fund", The Globe and Mail, April 11, 2018
- ↑ "Top Google / RIM Executives Join Canada's iNovia Capital To Transform Growth Investing"Top Google", iNovia Capital
- ↑ https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/11/former-google-cfo-patrick-pichette-just-joined-the-world-of-venture-capital/
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20221130112420/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2019/03/12/former-google-cfo-coach-british-spinouts-becoming-next-tech/
- ↑ https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/1418091/000119312520158516/d904330d8k.htm
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20221115071303/https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/quebecer-among-twitter-board-members-fired-after-elon-musk-takeover-1.6133002
- ↑ Patrick Pichette: Lead Independent Director
- ↑ https://www.arctoris.com/about/
- ↑ https://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/careers/career-advice/life-at-work/patrick-pichette-when-work-starts-feeling-too-comfortable-fire-yourself/article31694990/
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