Peter Schwartz

About

Peter Schwartz is the Founder and Chairman of Laurence Capital Corporation. Peter has over 30 years of diversified business experience, leadership and success including with one of his most notable efforts - the build-out and growth of Descartes Systems Group Inc., where he was Chairman & CEO. He took Descartes public in 1997 and built up a network of customers in +160 countries using a then innovative SaaS model. He was part of an outstanding team of +1000 employees and a world-class executive team many of whom are still actively running the business. Peter oversaw $1 billion in M&A and financing transactions during his tenure at Descartes. After leaving Descartes, Peter founded Laurence Capital, where he and his team have made investments and follow on investments in 41 companies, and founding or co-founding 4 of them. During this time Peter has the benefit of learning from some of Canada’s greatest entrepreneurs and sitting on many corporate and philanthropic boards.

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