Pechet graduated from Washington State University with a Master of Arts degree.
[2] He is non-executive producer of Stage West and chairman of Stagewest Hospitality, which includes several hotels, dinner theatres and casinos.
He expanded this to Calgary and Winnipeg and then to the Toronto region, with the Mississauga theatre on Dixie Road, which opened in 1986.
The first show in Mississauga was a small-scale comedy, Social Security by Andrew Bergman.
[4] Pechet has produced almost 1,000 plays and has co-written 14 musical revues.