Peter serves as the Chief Executive Officer and President of SimSpace, the realistic, intelligent cyber range that strengthens teams, technologies, and processes to outsmart adversaries before the fight begins.
Previously, Peter was co-founder and CEO of DataSynapse, an infrastructure software company acquired by TIBCO; and CEO of RapidMiner, an open source machine learning platform acquired by Altair. At TIBCO, Peter served as Executive Vice President responsible for multiple businesses including the security, cloud computing, B2B, CX, and analytics product groups. Before launching his career in software, Peter was a strategy consultant with Deloitte and an investment banker with JP Morgan.
Peter has extensive Board experience collaborating with top tier investors to grow innovative software companies, serving as Chairman for Attivio (acquired by ServiceNow), WorldQuant Predictive, and ActiveState, and as Director for Ektron (acquired by Accel-KKR), Vesta (acquired by TINT), Infomatix (acquired by EPAM), OpenAssemby (acquired by Fulcrum), BlogTalkRadio (acquired by iHeartRadio), Entrio and Chattermill. Peter also serves on the investment committees of Advanced Finance & Investment Group and Communitas Capital Partners.
Peter graduated from Harvard College with an AB degree in Government (cum laude), received an MBA degree from The Wharton School in Entrepreneurial Management and an MA degree from The University of Pennsylvania in International Affairs.
Peter has been invited twice to speak at the World Economic Forum in Davos and four times at The Milken Institute Global Conferences in LA and Singapore, explaining the impact of AI in terms of its business value and key use cases. Peter is a former Board member of Upwardly Global, alumnus of YPO and a member of the Development Board for Phillips Academy Andover.