Strategic Advisory Council
Peter Gross
Managing Partner, PMG Associates Lead Mission Critical Systems group, Bloom Energy Former Managing Partner, HP’s Consulting Services Former co-founder and CEO, EYP Mission Critical Facilities
Peter is the Managing Partner of PMG Associates, a consulting and advisory firm. In addition, he sits on several boards of directors and boards of advisors for public, private, and not-for-profit companies.
Until the end of August 2019, he led the Mission Critical Systems group at Bloom Energy, the premier manufacturer of solid oxide fuel cells. Prior to Bloom, he was the Managing Partner for HP’s Consulting Services focusing on Carbon, Power and Critical Facilities, where he was responsible for strategic technology planning and business development. Peter was the co-founder and CEO of EYP Mission Critical Facilities, Inc., the preeminent consulting and engineering firm dedicated to the design and operations of data centers. In this position, he has played a pivotal role in the rapid growth of EYP MCF’s business since its founding in 1997, leading to its acquisition by HP in 2008.
Peter is recognized as a thought leader in the mission-critical information, communication, and infrastructure design realm, has published numerous technical papers in the field and is a frequent speaker at international events. His emphasis centers on mission-critical facilities, high-reliability design, power quality, energy, and sustainability. Peter has more than 30 years’ experience in the engineering and design of power systems as applied to data centers, trading floors, command and control centers, and telecommunication and broadcasting facilities.
Peter has been at the forefront of many innovative concepts that have contributed to the evolution of the data center industry. He was co-awarded patents for the modular, prefabricated FlexDC product, for Direct Current power distribution topologies in data centers and for fuel cells data center architectures.
