Pete Newell
Founder and CEO
BMNT
Education
Kansas State University
B.S., Life Sciences
1986US Army Command and General Staff College
M.S., Operations and Training
1997Joint Advanced Warfighter School, National Defense University
M.S., Joint Campaign Planning and Strategy
2008Podcasts
40:24297: How To Turn a Military Career Into a Successful Silicon Valley Company w/ Pete Newell, BMNT & Hacking For Defense [Main T4C episode]
Peter Newell is a retired US Army colonel of 32 years and a nationally recognized innovation expert whose work is changing how the government and companies compete and drive growth. He is the founder and CEO of BMNT, an innovation consultancy and early stage technology incubator that works with national..
Career Path
Interview Highlights
“The reason you build hypotheses and test them is so you can learn things, and if you’re not failing and invalidating your hypothesis, you’re not pushing the boundaries hard enough.”
Best Career Advice
“There’s nothing anybody has left to teach you about being a tactical officer of combat. You’ve got it. You got more experience than most people ever ought to get, but you understand nothing about business. You need to get out of this place and go meet and talk to people who run the businesses.”
Career Challenge
“My first tour in Iraq was particularly brutal. I lost 19 soldiers in a short period of time, traumatic the first time, the 19th time is equally traumatic and it doesn’t get easier, even 20 years later.”
Skills
Military, DoD, Defense, National Security, Army, Government, Program Management, Intelligence Analysis, Counterterrorism, Emergency Management, Leadership, Team Building, Mentoring, Problem Solving
Professional Interests
Jack Welch, Steve Blank, Mark Cuban, GE, US Army, Shell, Frontline Innovators Network, The Veteran Executives Network – A Veteran Business “Network of Networks”, Texas Defense Innovation Forum, The Wharton School, Stanford University Graduate School of Business, Kansas State University
