Patrick Pichette

Partner at Inovia Capital · Joined 2018

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Biography

Patrick Pichette is a Partner at Inovia Capital, based in London. His firm bio describes him as a financial and operational expert with over 35 years of experience across Google, Twitter, McKinsey, Sprint Canada and Bell Canada, and states that he was Google's CFO from 2008 to 2015, where he oversaw nearly 150 acquisitions including Nest and Motorola and supported the creation of the Alphabet structure. He served on Twitter's board from 2017 to 2022, chaired it in 2020 and 2021, and co-led the sale of the company to Elon Musk in October 2022, so that seat has ended. He joined Inovia in 2018 to launch Growth Fund I and lead the firm's European expansion through its London office, and he holds an M.A. in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar and a B.B.A. from UQAM.

Education

Previous Experience

Notable Investments

HopperWealthsimpleNeo4jCohereLightspeedAikidoCloveTalentirZellifyTwitterZwiftBombardierArctoris

Board Seats

Career Timeline

2008
Became Chief Financial Officer of Google, a role he held until 2015.
2017
Joined the board of directors of Twitter.
2018
Joined Inovia Capital to launch Growth Fund I and lead the firm's European expansion from its London office.
2020
Joined Hopper's board when Inovia co-led the company's Series E in April, and became chair of Twitter's board.
2021
Joined Wealthsimple's board of directors in July after Inovia's Series D investment, and joined Neo4j's board of directors.
2022
Co-led the sale of Twitter to Elon Musk for 44 billion dollars in October, ending his time on that board.

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