Patrick Pichette — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Serves as a Partner at Inovia Capital, a venture capital firm, since 2018.
Was Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Google Inc. from 2008 until 2015.
Appointed independent board chair of Twitter, Inc. on June 2, 2020, serving until October 2022.
Serves as chair of the board at Lightspeed, joining in October 2018 and taking the chair position in February 2022.
Holds a Master of Arts degree in philosophy, politics and economics from Pembroke College of the University of Oxford, where he received a Rhodes Scholarship.
Became a lead founding member of UK's Creative Destruction Lab at Oxford in 2019.

Biography

Patrick Pichette is a Canadian business executive and venture capitalist. He currently serves as a Partner at Inovia Capital, a venture capital firm with offices in Montreal, Toronto, San Francisco, and London, a role he has held since 2018. Prior to this, Pichette was the Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Google Inc. from 2008 until 2015, where he also took on human resources and BizOps responsibilities in 2011.