Quick answers
Did Mike Pezzi co-found Reactiv?
Yes. Reactiv's own team page (reactiv.ai/about, read 2026-10-23) lists him under "Our founders" as "Co-Founder & CTO" beside Ross Correia (CEO) and Zack Elias (COO). Fortune (2024-10-28) captioned its seed-round photo "Reactiv cofounders Ross Correia, Zack Elias, and Mike Pezzi." The company's FAQ says the founders started in September 2023.
What is Mike Pezzi's role at Reactiv today?
Chief technology officer. Reactiv's team page and his author page on reactiv.ai, both read 2026-10-23, give the title "Co-Founder & CTO" and "CTO & Co-Founder"; the team page says "Mike owns the technical foundation that lets brands ship native apps in weeks." His author page says "He's based in Toronto."
What did Mike Pezzi do before Reactiv?
Reactiv's author page for him (reactiv.ai/authors/mike-pezzi, read 2026-10-23, written by the company) says he spent "nearly ten years at Acquia, where he went from software engineer to application architect", then held "engineering leadership at Topstep as a software architect and engineering manager working in AWS and Ruby on Rails." The team page summarises this as "More than a decade of SaaS engineering at scale." No fetched page says where he studied.
Has Mike Pezzi spoken at TechTO?
No. Reactiv's one TechTO stage appearance is by co-founder and CEO Ross Correia, who gave the talk "From Selling Rolexes to a $5M Round" in October 2026. Fortune (2024-10-28) and BetaKit (2026-10-06) covered Reactiv but quoted Correia and Elias, not Pezzi; Fortune names him only in a photo caption.