Toronto-based Kanwar was most recently vice-president of product acceleration, leading the team that made the firm’s corporate venture investments. He will leave at the end of July and focus on his family office with wife Arati Sharma, another ex-Shopify executive, he announced Tuesday. (The Logic)

Talking point: Kanwar joined the Ottawa-headquartered commerce company in August 2013 when it bought Jet Cooper, the UX agency he co-founded. He previously managed Shopify’s alliances with tech platforms like Facebook, Google and Snapchat, channels through which the firm’s merchants can sell. Later, he helped build out Shopify’s venture practice. The company has made 27 publicly disclosed investments to date, mostly in developers that make tools for its merchants like e-commerce ecosystem players Klaviyo and Yotpo and startups Crossing Minds and Wati. Kanwar is also an angel investor and prominent figure in Toronto tech. He’s the latest of a layer of leaders who joined Shopify pre-IPO and ran key units to exit the firm; fellow product-acceleration vice-president Brandon Chu left in January. During the pandemic, the company turned over its C-suite.