Gary is a six-time recipient of the Deloitte Fast 50 Award and was recognized as the “2013 Mobile Commerce Evangelist of the Year” and “2014 US Retail Innovator of the Year.”  Over the past 20 years, Gary has played a leadership role in the high-tech industry founding, investing and managing a number of companies in the health, marketing, social media, blockchain and financial sectors.

Gary is an award-winning Simon & Schuster NYC author with titles that include “THE IMPULSE ECONOMY,””FAST SHOPPER, SLOW STORE” and is presently writing a book on the Fourth Industrial Revolution called “IF THINGS COULD SPEAK.”

He is president of the Canadian Lenders Association and Managing Director of Pegasus Fintech. Gary is alumnus of Columbia University in New York and the Stanford University Center in Yokohama, where he was the recipient of the Asia and Japan Foundation Fellowships