Peter Fiske

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Engagement and Technology Translation Manager @ National Alliance for Water Innovation
Richmond, CA, US
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Dr. Peter S. Fiske is a seasoned executive with more than 2 decades of experience leading technology organizations and initiatives across industries such as Water, Renewable Energy, Defense, and Natural Resources. He has successfully commercialized several technologies including Reactive Atom Plasma (RAP) processing for optics and semiconductor manufacturing, biomimicry-inspired high-efficiency fluid mixing and process control technology (PAX Water) and has served as a board member or advisor to a number of technology start-ups. As CEO of PAX Water Technologies, he led the development, marketing and sales of three lines of premium process control technologies for the municipal water market, maintaining unusually high gross margins in a cost-sensitive industry with stiff competition. Under his leadership, his team of talented industry outsiders won several major industry awards for advertising and design, and maintained profitable growth of >20% per year, culminating in the acquisition of the company in January 2017 in an all-cash transaction. But he is most proud of the many talented professionals he has had the opportunity to recruit and coach throughout his career.Fiske is also a nationally-recognized author and lecturer, teaching innovation, entrepreneurship and personal career strategy to scientists and engineers in industry and research. He is a regular contributor to Nature (the #1 international science journal) and a past columnist for Science (the #1 US scientific journal). His articles have also appeared in The New Scientist. Fiske is the author of Put Your Science to WORK!, the most widely-read career strategy guide for early-career scientists and engineers. He is a frequent keynote speaker and lecturer at leading research universities such as MIT, Harvard, Princeton, Yale and Caltech and has given his acclaimed 2-hour workshop to over 25,000 scientists and engineers in the US, Europe and the Middle East.

Peter Fiske's Current Company Details
National Alliance for Water Innovation

National Alliance For Water Innovation

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Engagement and Technology Translation Manager
Richmond, CA, US
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Peter Fiske Work Experience Details
  • National Alliance For Water Innovation
    Engagement And Technology Translation Manager
    National Alliance For Water Innovation
    Richmond, Ca, Us
  • National Alliance For Water Innovation (Nawi)
    Executive Director
    National Alliance For Water Innovation (Nawi) Sep 2019 - Present
    The National Alliance for Water Innovation (https://www.nawihub.org/) is a coalition of 4 national labs (LBNL, ORNL, NREL and NETL), 19 universities, and over 190 US water companies committed to developing game-changing technologies to enable distributed desalination and water reuse. Headquartered at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, NAWI's 5-year mission is to execute an integrated portfolio of collaborative, early-stage, applied research projects with industry, academia and national lab technologists to dramatically cut the cost and energy of producing clean water from non-traditional water sources.
  • Berkeley Lab
    Director Of The Water-Energy Resilience Research Institute
    Berkeley Lab May 2017 - Present
    Berkeley, Ca, Us
    Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has tapped Peter Fiske to be the director of its Water-Energy Resilience Institute, a new position that underscores the Lab’s commitment to developing solutions for the challenges associated with the interdependence of water and energy systems.The Water-Energy Resilience Institute is a lab-wide initiative focused on addressing water and energy challenges by harnessing Berkeley Lab’s deep expertise in energy technologies, computational sciences, energy sciences, physical sciences, biosciences, and earth & environmental sciences. The institute builds on years of research at Berkeley Lab devoted to discovering fundamental processes that underpin water and energy dynamics and their coupling, as well as the development of resilient systems-level solutions.
  • Put Your Science To Work!
    Author And Lecturer
    Put Your Science To Work! 1994 - Present
    Since 1993, Fiske has been writing and lecturing on the subject of careers and career development for scientists and engineers. This work began as a personal project during graduate school when he became uncertain of the value of pursuing an academic career and found little information or advice on non-academic careers to guide him. is also a nationally-recognized author and lecturer on the subject of leadership and career development for young scientists and engineers. He is the author of To Boldly Go: A Practical Career Guide for Scientists (AGU Press, 1996). A new edition, Put Your Science to Work was published in December of 2000. He is the author of the career advice columns "Tooling Up" (1996-2000) and "Opportunities" (2006-2009), read by over 60,000 scientists and engineers monthly and has lectured on the subject of career development for scientists to over 18,000 young scientists and engineers in the US, Europe and the Middle East. He presently writes an occasional article in Nature on the subject of career strategy and entrepreneurship.
  • University Of California, Berkeley, Haas School Of Business
    Lecturer
    University Of California, Berkeley, Haas School Of Business 2004 - Present
    Berkeley, Ca, Us
    Dr. Fiske is a popular and highly-rated lecturer on subjects that include Personal Career Strategy, Business Culture and Innovation, Building an Entrepreneurial Business Culture, Communication Strategies, High-Performance Selling, Human Factors in Decision-Making and Scenario Planning and navigating Uncertainty. Fiske's clients have included NetApp, Maersk, DNV, LBNL, the European Union and the country of Kazakhstan.
  • Elemental Excelerator
    Elemental Excelerator - Cohort 8 Market Intelligence Lead And Coach
    Elemental Excelerator Oct 2019 - Feb 2020
    Honolulu, Hi, Us
    As Market Intelligence Lead and Coach, I led 7 early-stage cleantech companies through a 4-month module of instruction and one-on-one coaching in Product-Market Fit, Customer Discovery, and Market Segmentation and Analysis. Companies in this cohort included:Innovative Food Waste Handler: Goodr - https://www.goodr.co/Breakthrough Organic Produce Platform: Farm Link Hawaii - https://www.farmlinkhawaii.com/ High-performance EV Charger: KIGT - https://www.kigtinc.com/Cattle Methane Reducer: Blue Ocean Barns - https://www.blueoceanbarns.com/Oahu Bikeshare: Biki - https://gobiki.org/Breakthrough Battery Inspection: Feasible - https://www.feasible.io/Revolutionary Water Quality Sensor: FREDSense Technologies - https://www.fredsense.com/
  • Self-Employed
    Consultant, Investor
    Self-Employed Feb 2017 - May 2017
  • Pax Water Technologies, Inc.
    Ceo
    Pax Water Technologies, Inc. Nov 2008 - May 2017
    Milpitas, Ca, Us
    Up until February, 2017, Fiske served as the Chief Executive Officer of PAX Water Technologies, Inc. (www.paxwater.com). PAX Water is widely recognized in the municipal water industry for developing groundbreaking process control technologies for water distribution systems using Biomimicry. PAX Water has been featured in numerous business publications including New York Times, Business 2.0, and Fast Company as well as all major water industry publications. Under his leadership, PAX Water has received the prestigious Artemis 50 award twice and is recognized as one of the most trusted brands in the water industry. PAX Water’s customers include many of the largest public and private water utilities in the world. Some of his strength and skills include: high tech marketing, R&D, change management, leadership, innovation, communication, and regulatory strategy. Under his leadership, PAX Water went from a pre-profit early-stage start-up to a profitable, high-growth market leader.
  • Kohana Technologies
    Chairman Of The Board Of Directors
    Kohana Technologies Jan 2012 - Mar 2017
    Kohana Technologies developed a novel wind technology capable of increasing the size of wind turbine blades while reducing the dynamic loads due to wind gusts. In 2010, the Department of Energy's ARPA-E program selected Kohana's "Blown Windblade" technology for a 3-year, $2M development grant. Kohana's technology was successfully demonstrated in 2012 at the Altamont Pass Wind Site in California and was in final evaluation with a major wind turbine manufacturer.
  • Rapt Industries, Inc.
    Founder, Vp For Business Development
    Rapt Industries, Inc. Apr 2001 - Apr 2007
    Fremont, Ca, Us
    Co-founded RAPT Industries, Inc. - a spin-out from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory with a radical breakthrough in optics manufacturing. Based on technology he identified while at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Fiske wrote the business plan that won First Place in the 2001 U.C. Berkeley Business Plan Competition and secured funding for the company later that year. Fiske pursued an unusual pathway for capital investment – winning over $19M in competitive R&D grants and contracts to develop the technology from the US Department of Defense, Department of Commerce, NASA and the National Reconnaissance Office. Today, the RAP process is being employed to manufacture the most challenging optical components used in tomorrow’s research telescopes and weapons systems. Fiske was CEO until 2004 and VP for Business Development until his departure in 2008.
  • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
    Physicist
    Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Sep 1993 - Mar 2001
    Livermore, Ca, Us
    As a postdoc in the Institute for Geophysics and Planetary Physics (1993-1996) Fiske conducted a wide range of studies on the physics of meteorite impacts. He conducted hypervelocity impact experiments using the Lab's 2-stage light gas gun and synthesized novel high-pressure materials. He also led research studies of meteorite impacts in the western US and in southeast Asia. He is the author of 22 technical publications including a first author publication in the journal Science. From 1998 to 1999 he served as a member of Laboratory Director Bruce Tarter's Long Range Strategy Project, a group of leaders tasked with identifying critical technology areas for the laboratory's future. In this role he focused on technology spin-off and start-up strategies for the Laboratory. He served on Rep. Ellen Tauscher’s (CA-10) Small Business Advisory Committee from 2005 to 2009 where he worked with other small business owners and Congressional staffers to evaluate and propose legislative initiatives to increase the growth and economic vitality of the East Bay of the San Francisco Bay Area.
  • Department Of Defense
    Assistant Secretary Of Defense For Special Projects: White House Fellow
    Department Of Defense Sep 1996 - Sep 1997
    Washington, Dc, Us
    Fiske was one of 18 selected (out of an applicant pool of over 900) as a White House Fellow and served one year in the Pentagon as Special Assistant to the Under Secretary for Acquisition and Technology (Dr. Paul Kaminski). Fiske was charged with assisting the Department of Defense with landmark reform in the area of personnel policy – focusing on the 110,000-person science and engineering workforce. For this work he was awarded the Defense Outstanding Achievement Award in 1997.

Peter Fiske Skills

Strategic Planning Business Development Entrepreneurship Product Management Public Speaking Strategy Start Ups Engineering Mergers And Acquisitions Blogging Negotiation Venture Capital Cross Functional Team Leadership Management Project Management Marketing Strategy Interviews Science Budgets Career Development Coaching Leadership Research Training And Development Business Strategy Business Planning Writing

Peter Fiske Education Details

  • University Of California, Berkeley, Haas School Of Business
    University Of California, Berkeley, Haas School Of Business
    Finance And Law
  • Stanford University
    Stanford University
    Geochemistry And Materials Science
  • Princeton University
    Princeton University
    Geology/Civil Engineering

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