Peter L. Corsell

Peter L. Corsell

Corsell speaking at the Bloomberg New Energy Finance Summit
Born (1977-12-05) December 5, 1977
Brooklyn, New York
Residence Miami Beach, Florida
Education Georgetown University
Occupation Chairman of GridPoint
Chairman and CEO of Hubub
Board of Directors at inStream
Board of Directors at Clearpath

Peter L. Corsell (born December 5, 1977) is an American entrepreneur, businessman and venture capitalist who founded GridPoint in 2003 and the social media company Hubub.[1][2][3][4]

Early life and education

Corsell was born in Brooklyn, New York. He attended Georgetown University.

Career

In 1999, Corsell was recruited by the Central Intelligence Agency, where he worked as a political analyst in the Cuba branch.[5][6][7]

In 2003, Corsell founded GridPoint to develop energy management and renewable energy technologies.[5][7][8][9][10][11][12][13] He served as the company’s President and CEO from 2003 until 2010, when he became the company’s Chairman.[14][15]

Other ventures

Corsell has been an investor in several early stage companies including:

Awards and affiliations

In 2008, MIT Technology Review recognized Corsell as one of the top 35 innovators in the world under the age of 35.[19] The World Economic Forum named him a Young Global Leader in 2010.[20][20][21]

Corsell was Chairman of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Sustainable Energy (2008-2009), as well as a member of the Electrification Coalition, a nonpartisan organization committed to the widespread adoption of electric vehicles.[22][23]

As of 2010 he served on the executive committee of the board of the Wolfsonian Museum in Miami Beach, Florida.[24]

Corsell has been featured in several books including Hot, Flat, and Crowded by Thomas Friedman, Perfect Power by Robert Galvin and Kurt Yeager and Earth: The Sequel by Fred Krupp and The Clean Tech Revolution by Ron Pernick and Clint Wilder.[25][26][27][28]

References

  1. ↑ "Do Good, Get Rich". Inc. Magazine cover. November 2006.
  2. ↑ Dumaine, Brian (2008). The Plot to Save the Planet: How Visionary Entrepreneurs and Corporate Titans Are Creating Real Solutions to Global Warming. Random House. p. 134.
  3. ↑ "Being Al Gore: Entrepreneurs offer advice to the veep-cum-venture capitalist". Inc. Magazine. February 1, 2008.
  4. ↑ Etherington, Darrell. "Hubub Raises $8.5M To Be The New Home For Conversations On The Web". TechCrunch. AOL. Retrieved 10 March 2014.
  5. 1 2 "Businessweek Tech Pioneers". Bloomberg Businessweek, November 28, 2007.
  6. ↑ "The Futurists: From solar panels to clean coal, betting big on the future of energy". Inc. Magazine, November 1, 2006.
  7. 1 2 "Special Report: Grid Unlocked, A smart, digital electric power system could bring vast energy-efficiency gains and a new wave of entrepreneurship". Washington Monthly, September 5, 2009.
  8. ↑ "It's the Network". Forbes. September 26, 2007.
  9. ↑ Esther Dyson (June 2005). "Dr. Market: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Lose Control" (PDF). CNET.
  10. ↑ "Power Surge: The race to discover new ways to create and use energy runs through Washington as investors pump $230M into local firms". Washington Business Journal. September 18, 2006.
  11. ↑ "'Fuel was cheap and pollution was free' That's what the world was like when the current energy system was designed, said GridPoint CEO Peter Corsell.". CNN Money. April 22, 2009.
  12. ↑ Russo, Michael V. (2008). Environmental Management: Readings and Cases. SAGE. pp. 281–282.
  13. ↑ "The Innovation Machine". Inc. Magazine cover. November 2009.
  14. ↑ "Peter L. Corsell becomes GridPoint Chairman". GridPoint, Inc. October 14, 2010.
  15. ↑ Clabaugh, Jeff. "GridPoint raises $24M". Washington Business Journal. Retrieved 16 January 2014.
  16. ↑ "Former bureaucrat Michael Petrucelli looks to take mystery — and paper — out of immigration processing". Washington Business Journal, May 27, 2011.
  17. ↑ Dahlberg, Nancy (January 23, 2014). "Clearpath names Felice Gorordo CEO, moving HQ to Miami". Miami Herald. Retrieved 23 January 2014.
  18. ↑ "Could inStream be the Next Big Thing in RIA technology?". RIABiz, January 6, 2013.
  19. ↑ "Innovators Under 35, 2008". MIT Technology Review, August 2008.
  20. 1 2 "World Economic Forum Young Global Leaders 2010". TechCrunch, March 3, 2010.
  21. ↑ "Young Global Leaders". World Economic Forum, March 3, 2010.
  22. ↑ "A New Generation Charges Ahead". Forbes. January 26, 2009.
  23. ↑ AvishaI, Bernard. "The Connected Car". Inc. Mansueto Ventures. Retrieved 5 February 2014.
  24. ↑ "The Wolfsonian–FIU appoints four new board members and elects new officers". The Wolfsonian-FIU, June 28, 2010.
  25. ↑ Friedman, Thomas. "Chapter 12, The Energy Internet: When IT Meets ET". Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution and How It Can Renew America. New York, NY: Picador.
  26. ↑ Robert Galvin; Kurt Yeager (2008). Perfect Power: How the Microgrid Revolution Will Unleash Cleaner, Greener, More Abundant Energy. New York, NY: Mc-Graw-Hill.
  27. ↑ Krupp, Fred (2008). Earth: the Sequel: The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming. New York, NY: Norton and Company.
  28. ↑ Pernick, Ron and Clint Wilder (2007). The Clean Tech Revolution. Collins. pp. 183, 286, 397.
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