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.

The Financial Post named Peter in their annual Top 40 under 40 at the age of 31. Peter has been a member of YPO since 1997 and was one of the inaugural members of the Great Lakes Chapter. In 1997 Peter was one of the founders of Communitech which started with a handful of great local entrepreneurs who formed a small group to share their experiences and to help each as they grew their businesses and dealt with the many challenges and opportunities they faced. Communitech is now a powerful hub for commercializing innovative technologies in the Waterloo Region. It now encompasses an eco-system of more than $25B from over 1,000 companies.