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Peter Kellner founded and is CEO of Richmond Global LLC, a holding company composed of alternative investments. Day to day, he is a seed, early, and growth-stage venture capitalist whose investments have resulted in eight unicorns: aQuantive, Bolt, CAIS, Compass, Dataminr, Rubicon, Salesforce, and Toast.
He has invested in and lived on five continents over 25 years, building some of the largest platform technology companies from Brazil to China. After university, as a Fulbright Scholar in Hungary, he founded the Environmental Management & Law Association (EMLA), Central Europe’s most influential NGO in environmental law and policy, and originally backed by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund.
In 1996, Mr. Kellner co-founded Endeavor Global. Endeavor’s mission is to build ecosystems of entrepreneurship throughout the 42-country network where the organization is operating. He served on the boards of Endeavor Chile, Endeavor Global, Endeavor Jordan, Endeavor Louisville, and Endeavor Miami.
He is a Crown Fellow at The Aspen Institute and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Pacific Council on International Affairs, and International Institute for Strategic Studies. Mr. Kellner is a trustee of America Media | The Jesuit Review, where he co-chairs the investment committee. In 2014, he was invested in the Knights of Malta by Cardinal Dolan.
Mr. Kellner received his AB from Princeton with a concentration in the School of Public & International Affairs (SPIA). He funded the E-Lab for student entrepreneurship, and together with three members of the Class of 1963 endowed the James Wei Visiting Professorship, a key element of Princeton’s design thinking and entrepreneurship education.
Mr. Kellner received his MBA from Harvard Business School, where his companies and organization are the subject of eight case studies taught to students and distributed by the school’s publishing arm. Five span Endeavor’s early years to its 20th anniversary, and three cover Athleta, Rubicon Global, and Chia Network.
Mr. Kellner received his JD from Yale Law School, where he established the George and Martha Kellner Fund for Entrepreneurial Excellence, designed to be the cornerstone of the school’s entrepreneurship curriculum. In 2024, the Board of Trustees of Yale University elected Mr. Kellner a Sterling Fellow.
Mr. Kellner lives in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, with his wife, Meredith, and two children, Morgan and Grayson.