Peter Carrescia

Co-Founder, Head of Strategy & Business Development

2022 - Current

goConfirm helps people bring trust to the online interactions they have every day. Using state-of-the-art digital protocols, people around the world will have a secure, portable, reliable way to share and exchange verified information with others.

Venture Partner

2020

IVP is a leading Canadian venture capital firm focused on funding great entrepreneurs building financial technology solutions with global scale.

SVP Strategy and Corporate Development

2016 - 2019

Wave is a high growth fintech (financial technology) company acquired by H&R Block in June 2019 for $537 million. In his role at Wave, he led Strategy, Corporate Development and Business Development, including the negotiation and management of strategic partnerships, fundraising rounds and acquisitions. Peter was deeply involved in the sale of the company to H&R Block including all aspects of the negotiations, due diligence, legals and integration strategy. Peter's involvement at Wave began in 2011 when he led the company's first venture round while at OMERS Ventures.

Advisor

2012 - 2016

Member Board of Directors

2011 - 2012

President

2014 - 2016

NEXT Canada is helping grow Canada's long-term prosperity by fast-tracking the development of Canada's most talented young innovators and founders. It was founded by a small group of business leaders and academics and is championed by Founding Patrons W. Galen Weston, Paul Desmarais, Sr. and Jimmy Pattison. Reporting to the board of directors, Peter led all aspects of the organization including program design and delivery, marketing and recruiting, fundraising and finance. He was also deeply involved in working with the founders and ventures within the Next 36, Next Founders and NextAI programs. Peter was instrumental in redesigning the core Next 36 program to better align with the rapidly evolving technology ecosystem. He also led the design and launch of NextAI, a program designed to accelerate the development and growth of high potential Artificial Intelligence (AI) based companies based in Canada. Peter also secured the corporate and government sponsors and partners that were critical to the success of the NextAI program.

VP Strategy

2013 - 2014

Leading FinTech solutions in payments, lending, core banking

Managing Director

2011 - 2012

OMERS Ventures is the venture capital arm of OMERS, a $100 billion Ontario Canada-based pension fund. Peter was the founding Managing Director of OMERS Ventures, and led the development of the initial investment sectors, thesis, strategy and processes. He also led and was instrumental in the recruiting of the initial investment team. His leadership at OMERS Ventures included sourcing, approving and managing its first investments, including leading Wave Financial's first venture round, a company sold to H&R Block in 2019 for ~ $540 million.

Cofounder, Member Board of Directors

2011 - 2012

Co-founded and structured founding investment into leading Canadian technology accelerator. Developed first operational strategy and hired initial leadership team

Member Board of Directors

2009 - 2011

General Partner

2000 - 2010

Created technology investment thesis and identified complementary investment opportunities. Worked closely with investee management teams to build and maximize value.

Senior Product Evangelist

1999 - 2000