Anthony Lacavera General Information

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Mr. Anthony Lacavera is the Founder & serves as Chairman at Globalive Capital. He is a Co-Founding Partner of the Creative Destruction Lab. He also serves as Board Member at Socati and HyperBlock Technologies. He also serves as Co-Founder and Vice Chairman at Gibraltar Ventures (Toronto). He also serves as the Board Member at CRG. He serves as the CEO at Globalive XMG. He serves as Board Member at The Next 36. He also serves as Venture Advisor at Relay Ventures. He is Chairman and CEO of the Globalive Group and Wind Mobile, is a Canadian-born telecom entrepreneur. He served as a Board Member at Trilogy International Partners. He founded Globalive in 1998, co-founded Wind Mobile in 2008. The Globalive Group has founded, seeded, financed, operated, and divested of various assets in the Internet, Communications, and Technology sectors. He was named CEO of the Year in Canada for 2010 by the Globe and Mail's Report on Business Magazine and was named one of Canada's Top 40 Under 40 in 2006. He is a founding member of the Art Gallery of Ontario's Galleria Italia. He is an active supporter of the University of Toronto as well as the University of Toronto's Engineering School where he graduated with a degree in Computer Engineering in 1997. He supports entrepreneurship in Canada through programs such as the Next 36, mentors and finances young entrepreneurs, and speaks regularly to university and college level business students about entrepreneurship. He also serves as the Chief Executive Officer at OneConnect Services and is Chairman of the same. He also serves as a Board Member at Founders Advantage Capital. He serves as Board Member at Flexiti. He Founded & served as Chairman at Globalive Technology. He also founded and was CEO of WIND Mobile, which he sold for USD$1.3 billion after it grew to become Canada's fourth-largest wireless carrier. A serial entrepreneur, he started his first business out of university with a small business loan from the Royal Bank of Canada. He is also the founder of Globalive Technology, a software company focused on commercializing blockchain and artificial intelligence technologies where he serves as Chairman and CEO. As a venture capitalist, he has a significant stake in dozens of startups in Canada as well as the United States. As a mentor and investor, he is heavily involved in accelerators and incubators, including MaRS, Creative Destruction Lab (CDL), NEXT Canada and the DMZ at Ryerson University. He has done business in more than thirty countries, ranging from producing plays on Broadway to raising almost CAD$2 billion in private capital. He is a regular television commentator and speaker on artificial intelligence, entrepreneurship and the telecommunications industry. He was educated at the University of Toronto.