Lessons from a serial entrepreneur

​Peter has founded and sold four tech companies in the collaboration and social networking space. As a seasoned entrepreneur, he’s here to share lessons from his repeated success.​

​Join the fireside chat with VP of Engineering Peter Pezaris & Executive Director, Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship Dave Mawhinney to learn about the story behind founding multiple ventures.

​Speaker Bio:

​Peter Pezaris

​https://www.linkedin.com/in/ppezaris/

​Peter is the VP of Engineering at New Relic, a cloud-based observability platform built to help organizations create more perfect software. Prior to New Relic, Peter was founder & CEO of CodeStream, a developer collaboration solution that integrates GitHub, JIRA, Slack and other essential dev tools into popular IDEs. He also founded Glip, a team collaboration platform acquired by RingCentral in 2015,  Multiply.com, a social commerce platform acquired by Naspers in 2010, and Commissioner.com, one of the first online fantasy sports platforms, which was acquired by CBS in 1999. A seasoned entrepreneur and tech executive, Peter is a recognized expert in the collaboration and social networking space, pioneering several of today’s most commonly used features in real-time messaging. Peter holds a BS degree in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University.

​Moderator Bio:

​Dave Mawhinney

​https://www.linkedin.com/in/davemawhinney/

​Dave is an experienced Entrepreneur, Investor and Senior Executive with a demonstrated history of creating valuable companies. With an MBA with Distinction focused in Entrepreneurship from Carnegie Mellon University - Tepper School of Business, he currently is the Executive Director at the Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship since 2016.