Peter Carrescia
Co-Founder, goConfirm
Greater Toronto Area, Canada
Overview
Work Experience
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
Microsoft Advertising provides digital advertising solutions.