Dave Brereton-“The Entrepreneurial Life in a Fallen World: Forgiving and/or Forgetting?”

Dave Brereton, Executive Chairman, TECSYS, Inc., Montreal, QC

TOPIC: “The Entrepreneurial Life in a Fallen World: Forgiving and/or Forgetting?”

Dave Brereton is the founder and current Executive Chairman of the Board of TECSYS Inc. Under his vision and leadership, TECSYS has grown from a start-up company to a leading international provider of software solutions to multinational corporations (www.tecsys.com). TECSYS presently generates revenue of $100 million/year and has about 500 employees. Mr. Brereton served as TECSYS' CEO and/or Co-CEO until 2006. Prior to it going public, The Financial Post and Arthur Andersen & Company chose TECSYS as one of Canada's 50 Best-Managed Private Companies. In 1996, Mr. Brereton was named one of the country's Top 40 Executives Under 40, by The Financial Post, The Caldwell Partners, CTV Television Network, and Canadian Airlines. In 2000, he was a finalist for Entrepreneur of the Year by Ernst and Young and BMO Nesbitt Burns. Mr. Brereton is an early investor in numerous technology start-ups including Silanis Inc., Inventure LLC., AlayaCare, and Social.mom.  From 2006 - 2017, Mr. Brereton was the National Director of Youth for Christ Canada (www.yfccanada.org), the largest youth-focused Christian organization in Canada, and is the founder of a fully accredited high school for marginalized youth in Montreal, Quebec. In 2018, Dave took on the role of International Director over Youth for Christ International www.yfci.org. Youth for Christ has approximately 60,000 staff and volunteers in over 100 nations reaching young people for Christ globally. Dave and his wife Katy live in Montreal, Quebec.  They have nine grown children and many grandchildren who are the joy of their lives.