Peter O'Brien is a Business Development Manager at Cool Earth Solar, a solar technology company based in Livermore, California. At Cool Earth, Peter helps manage relationships with utilities and monitor upcoming RFPs as well as overseeing the company's interconnection requests and providing cost and financial modeling support for the project finance team and engineering team. 

Peter earned his MBA at Cornell University's S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management where he was the VP of Renewables for the Energy Club. Peter also holds a B.A. in Philosophy and World Perspectives from Principia College. In his spare time he enjoys Crossfit, running, biking, reading, and partner dancing. Peter is also fluent in written and spoken Thai and conversational in Spanish.