Pierre is a semi-retired entrepreneur, private investor, mentor and an advisor for business owners large and small. Six years ago he mostly ‘un-retired’ to consider his family histories and what his ancestors did to propagate their businesses and family cohesion across so many decades, and whether learnings therein might apply to other families considering the impact of their wealth upon their descendants. For five years before that, Pierre was at Two Sigma Investments, where he explored the Asian markets and invested private capital. Through the 90s and early 00s, Pierre was an entrepreneur, co-founding five software companies resulting in 1.5 IPOs, one acquisition and some spectacular failures. He has been a direct investor into businesses in China, the Middle East, and the US, and has worked with individuals, families, and companies in all three areas. After receiving his BScE from Princeton in 1982, Pierre started his career at Bolt, Beranek & Newman (BBN) as a research scientist and software engineer in computational linguistics, parallel processing, and statistical data analysis. Today his entrepreneurial efforts are focused on supporting his private investments, his business-owner and multigen-family advisory practice at Cerity Partners, and the various tech and non-tech companies he advises or on whose boards he sits.