Peter Rive

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Tesla Obelisk on the SolarCity-operated supercharger station in California

Peter Rive (* in South Africa ) is with his brother Lyndon Rive and his cousin Elon Musk one of the three founders and now the Chief Operating Officer and Chief Technical Officer ( CTO ) of the California Solarstromdiensterleisters SolarCity . The company, which started in 2006 with 2 employees, employed around 3,500 people in September 2013 and had 68,000 customers in 14 US states with whom it had installed solar systems.

Career

Peter Rive earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from Queen's University in Ontario , Canada .

After graduating, he held various managerial positions at technology software companies in areas such as artificial intelligence and 3D visualization. Rive gained several years of experience building large databases as well as high-performance web and client-server applications. He was the founder and chief technology officer of Intravenous Communications, a company that built advanced monitoring tools for the systems management of high-transaction servers. He worked as a director of Clean Currents LLC and Clean Currents Inc.

He became wealthy in the USA with the establishment and later sale of the IT company Everdream . There, too, he was the responsible Chief Technical Officer . This company, which is run with his two brothers Lyndon and Russel Rive, developed software with which networks consisting of tens of thousands of computers can be managed. The brothers sold the company to Dell in 2006 .

After the sale, when Lyndon and Peter Rive attended the Burning Man festival with Elon Musk , the latter suggested they start a solar company. He thought the brothers, who had been able to network thousands of computers, were ideally suited to installing solar systems on tens of thousands and later hundreds of thousands of roofs and organizing the logistics , the contract business, the financing and the integration into the power grid.

The founding was financed by Elon Musk in 2006 with 10 million dollars, while Lyndon and Peter Rive built and managed the operational business.

As Chief Development Officer, he is also responsible for his company's promising business with fast charging stations for Tesla Motors .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.solarcity.com/media-center/management-team.aspx
  2. ↑ http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/people/person.asp?personId=23966997&ticker=SCTY ; accessed on January 2, 2013
  3. ↑ Elon Musk in conversation with Alison van Diggelen in Du 839 - September 2013, page 19
  4. ^ Matt Marshall: Musk leads $ 10M investment in SolarCity - to provide solar for all. At http://venturebeat.com on September 15, 2006 ; accessed January 2, 2013
  5. ↑ http://www.forbes.com/sites/toddwoody/2012/09/25/tesla-to-build-national-electric-car-charging-network/ ; accessed on January 2, 2013

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personal data
SURNAME Rive, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American serial entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century
PLACE OF BIRTH South Africa