Primary Job Title CEO Primary Organization 
BMNT
Location Palo Alto, California, United States Regions San Francisco Bay Area, Silicon Valley, West Coast Gender Male
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Pete Newell is the managing partner at BMNT Partners, a company that provides a
platform where innovators can work together at the intersection between business,
government, academia and society.
He serves as a Senior Advisor to the Department of Energy’s National Secure
Manufacturing Center (NSMC) where he provides counsel to their strategy
development
efforts to create more agile business practices, innovation platforms and the human
capital systems they require to meet future national challenges. Pete is also an Advisor
to an interagency technology accelerator and also serves on the boards of several of
BMNT Partners’ portfolio companies.
Prior to joining BMNT Partners, Pete served as the Director of the US Army’s Rapid
Equipping Force (REF). Reporting directly to the senior leadership of the Army, he was
charged with the responsibility to rapidly find, integrate, and employ solutions to the
emerging problems faced by Soldiers on today's battlefield.
From 2010 to 2013 Pete led REF in the investment of over $1.4B in developing
solutions to answer Soldiers’ most pressing needs. Among the initiatives he developed
were the Army’s $66M effort to develop and deploy renewable energy systems on the
battlefield and the Army’s $45M effort to design an integrated system to gather the data
required to determine the potential causes of Traumatic Brain Injury on the battlefield.
He was also responsible for the Army’s first deployment of mobile advanced/additive
manufacturing labs in a bid to more closely connect scientists and engineers to
problems on the battlefield. In recognition of the impact of these efforts, Defense News
Media named him to their list of the top 100 most influential people in the defense
industry in 2012. Pete’s experiences with REF are also the subject of case studies used
in the classrooms at both the Stanford Graduate School of Business and the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School.
