Pete Newell

Chairman of the Board

Col. Pete Newell (Ret.) is the CEO of BMNT, an innovation consultancy and early-stage technology incubator that helps solve some of the hardest problems facing the Department of Defense and Intelligence Community.

Prior to joining BMNT, 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 rapidly finding, integrating, and employing solutions to emerging problems faced by Soldiers on the battlefield. Pete’s experiences with the REF are the subject of case studies used in the classrooms at both the Stanford Graduate School of Business and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sloan School.

As CEO of BMNT, Inc. he brings together innovators working at the intersection of business, government, academia, and society.

He is also a co-founder of the Common Mission Project.