Anthony "Tony" Lacavera is a Canadian

Canada

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 entrepreneur and telecommunication

Telecommunication

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s executive. He is the chairman and CEO

Chief executive officer

A chief executive officer , managing director , Executive Director for non-profit organizations, or chief executive is the highest-ranking corporate officer or administrator in charge of total management of an organization...

 of Globalive Communications Corporation

Globalive

Globalive Communications Corporation is a Canadian telecommunications provider based in Toronto. Originally founded in 1998 by offering services over pre-established telephone networks, it is best known for its "Yak" and "LooneyCall" long-distance plans....

 as well as Chairman of WIND Mobile

Wind Mobile

Wind Mobile is a Canadian wireless telecommunications provider operated by Globalive Communications Corporation. The company initially launched mobile data and voice services in Toronto on December 16, 2009 and two days later in Calgary...

.

After graduating from the University of Toronto

University of Toronto

The University of Toronto is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, situated on the grounds that surround Queen's Park. It was founded by royal charter in 1827 as King's College, the first institution of higher learning in Upper Canada...

, Lacavera founded Globalive
Communications. In 2006, he oversaw Globalive's purchase of Yak Communications.

Under Lacavera's leadership, Globalive has been named one of Canada's 50 Best Managed Companies six years in a row. In 2004, Globalive was ranked by Profit Magazine

Profit (magazine)

Profit is a Canadian business magazine aimed at entrepreneurs. It is published six times per year and, according to its website, focusses on "how to find opportunity and seize it", management practices, case studies and "access to peer groups"....

 as the "Fastest Growing Company in Canada", and in 2006 Globalive was named by Canadian Business

Canadian Business

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 as one of "Canada's 30 Best Places to Work".

Lacavera founded the Shamba Foundation in 2007, which provides charitable groups

Charitable organization

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 with free venue space on top of Globalive's headquarters. Lacavera is also a founding contributor to Galleria Italia, a Frank Gehry

Frank Gehry

Frank Owen Gehry, is a Canadian American Pritzker Prize-winning architect based in Los Angeles, California.His buildings, including his private residence, have become tourist attractions...

 designed atrium at the heart of newly renovated Art Gallery of Ontario

Art Gallery of Ontario

Under the direction of its CEO Matthew Teitelbaum, the AGO embarked on a $254 million redevelopment plan by architect Frank Gehry in 2004, called Transformation AGO. The new addition would require demolition of the 1992 Post-Modernist wing by Barton Myers and Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg...

. In 2008, He was awarded the designation of Order of the Star of Italian Solidarity

Order of the Star of Italian Solidarity

The Order of the Star of Italian Solidarity was founded as national order by the first President of the Italian Republic, Enrico De Nicola, in 1947, to recognise civilian and military expatriates or foreigners who made an outstanding contribution to the reconstruction of Italy after World War...

 by the Italian government.

Lacavera has been a member of Young Presidents' Organization

Young Presidents' Organization

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since 2000, and in 2006 was named one of Canada's Top 40 under 40.

In 2010, Lacavera was named CEO of the Year by The Globe and Mail's Report on Business Magazine