Mitch Garber C.M., is a Canadian lawyer and former Co-Founder/ CEO of Optimal Payments/Paysafe (Nasdaq), CEO PartyGaming Plc/PartyBwin (LSE) and Caesars Acquisition Company /Playtika Ltd. (Nasdaq). From 2018-2022 he was the inaugural Chairman of Invest in Canada, the Canadian agency responsible for foreign investment in Canada, and he was awarded the Order of Canada, Canada's highest civilian honor, in 2019.
He is an active investor and co-invests with lead principals, including Apollo Global Management, and is an executive Advisor to the private equity firm. He is a board member of several companies including Rackspace Technology (RXT), Shutterfly Inc.,, Aiola.com (Israel), and Lanvin Group (France/China).
He is a minority owner and executive committee member of the NHL Seattle Kraken. . He also sits on the Board of the One Roof Foundation, the charity arm of the Kraken and Climate Pledge Arena.
He was the non-executive Chairman of Cirque Du Soleil, a TPG/Fosun holding, from 2015-2020.
He has also made several successful investments in Israeli companies and is currently an investor in Israeli-based AI company Aiola,, and medical company Healthy.io . As CEO of Caesars Interactive Entertainment, he led the acquisition of Playtika (PLTK), in 2011 for $100m and engineered its sale in 2016 for more than 4.4B , making it one of the largest Israeli exits at the time.
He sits on the board and leads a number of philanthropic activities in Canada and Israel. He co-chaired the 2016 Centraide/United Way campaign in Montreal, raising in excess of $55 million, and co-chaired a two year $100m campaign for Combined Jewish Appeal (2020/21).
He has a BA from McGill University ('86), a law degree from the University of Ottawa ('89) , an honorary doctorate from the University of Ottawa ('17), An Honorary Doctorate from the Univesrity of Montreal (2021), The McGill/Desautels Business School Achievement award (2017), and The University of Ottawa Order of Merit ('20) .
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