Petros Kusmu
Founder and CEO
Alpine Vistas Capital
Vancouver, British Columbia
Petros Kusmu is the Founder & CEO of Alpine Vistas Capital – an investor backed-fund dedicated to acquiring and growing privately-held businesses and creating opportunities for broad-based employee ownership. Previously, Petros was the CEO of a $14M educational services organization with over 300 employees, eight businesses, and 31,000 clients. As a Senior Manager at (Monitor) Deloitte, he sold and led multi-million-dollar consulting engagements on corporate strategy, transformations, and operations improvement across the healthcare, transportation, and energy industries. Petros honed his investing skills at Morgan Stanley’s Private Equity & Credit team (managing +$40B AUM), where he contributed to several transactions.
Committed to community impact, Petros also volunteers by co-leading the development of affordable housing in Vancouver as a director at the Hogan’s Alley Society. He also sits on the board of a national charity that organizes Canada’s preeminent public policy gathering, The Banff Forum. Previously, he co-founded Black CAN (formerly, Black Voters Matter Canada) and is currently co-authoring research at Harvard Business School on topics of employee ownership.
Petros is a graduate of Harvard Business School (MBA, Baker Scholar – top 5% of graduates), the London School of Economics (MSc, Chevening Scholar), and the University of Alberta (BA). Previously, he was a World Economic Forum Global Shaper, Action Canada Fellow, professional guitarist, and frequent news commentator on CBC television and radio, with op-eds having appeared in Canada’s leading newspapers.