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Richmond Global LLC was founded in 2000 by Peter Kellner with a dedication to
effecting positive change through investment in entrepreneurship, innovation,
and sustainability.



HISTORY

When his father was three years old, Kellner’s grandparents left Hungary for
America, arriving on Ellis Island in 1947. In pursuit of the American Dream, the
small family lived and worked in Queens. A man aspiring to enter the tie-making
business offered Kellner’s grandfather seed investment to start a company. Paul
Kellner turned the $25,000 into a successful business with millions of dollars
in annual revenue selling ties exclusively to Gant.

In the 1960s, Kellner’s grandfather sold the tie factory and purchased a working
farm in the Hudson Valley region. Part of the property included Richmond Hill, a
U.S. landmark home and farm built by the Livingston family, signatories of the
Declaration of Independence. Richmond Hill’s legacy is also one of our nation’s
Founding Fathers’ commitment to liberty and prosperity.

While at Princeton in the 1990s, Peter was introduced to Bill Drayton, the
founder of Ashoka. Bill would inspire the rest of Peter’s career and remains one
of his closest friends to this day. Catalyzed by Drayton’s pioneering efforts in
social entrepreneurship, Kellner cofounded with Linda Rottenberg, an employee of
Ashoka at the time, what he views as the Ashoka of private sector
entrepreneurship: Endeavor Global, the largest global network supporting
high-impact entrepreneurs around the world. An avid student of philosophy,
Kellner was influenced by the work of Peter Drucker, Hannah Arendt, Georg
Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Immanuel Kant, Friedrich Hayek, St. Augustine, Joseph
Schumpeter, and Gary Becker.

His own family’s transformative entrepreneurial story drove Kellner to found
Richmond Global in 2000. Intending to use the power of investment to further the
American ideals of democracy, freedom, hard work, and productivity, Kellner
named the firm after the Richmond Hill property, a representation of his own
family’s journey that he could replicate by working with and helping to develop
the potential of others.


FOUNDER BIO

Peter Kellner is Founder and Managing Partner of Richmond Global Ventures, a
venture capital firm investing worldwide in early stage technology companies.
After Princeton University as a Fulbright Scholar to Budapest, Hungary, he
founded the Environmental Management & Law Association (EMLA), an influential
NGO in environmental policy backed originally by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund.
He co-founded Endeavor Global in 1997, now operating in 41 countries, and left
graduate school to spearhead Endeavor’s launch—building offices and identifying
entrepreneurs—in Latin America, the Middle East, and North America.

Mr. Kellner co-founded Richmond Global Sciences with global sustainability
authority, HBS Professor George Serafeim, and based on his research in
impacted-weighted accounting; the third co-founder and CEO, Sakis Kotsantonis,
is Professor Serafeim’s closest childhood friend and also a sustainability
expert. RGS is a SaaS company creating tools for managers who allocate capital
inside organizations or markets, generating a systematic assessment of product
impact for every industry of the economy and filling a significant gap in the
current ESG data landscape.

Kellner spent over a decade preparing and was Chairman & CEO of Richmond Global
Compass, an absolute return fund that integrated sustainability practices into
traditional research. The period leading up to its launch was required to test
whether ESG factors could positively impact securities at the company and
sovereign levels. The macro fund had an average net return of 12.5% over its
exactly three-year operating history, winding down in May 2020.

Mr. Kellner is a board member of several technology companies and has invested
in and lived on five continents over 25 years, seeding some of the largest
platform technology companies from Brazil to China. He is a member of Young
Presidents Organization (YPO) and served on the boards of Endeavor Global,
Endeavor Chile, Endeavor Jordan, Endeavor Louisville, and Endeavor Miami.

Kellner is a trustee of America | The Jesuit Review where he co-chairs the
investment committee and served as a trustee of the Allen-Stevenson School in
New York and as a trustee of International College (IC) in Beirut, Lebanon. He
is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Pacific Council for
International Policy, and International Institute for Strategic Studies. He is a
Crown Fellow at The Aspen Institute and Young Global Leader at the World
Economic Forum.

Kellner received his AB from Princeton University, JD from Yale Law School, and
MBA from Harvard Business School. In 2007 with three alumni from the classes of
1961 and 1963, he endowed Princeton’s first visiting professorship in
entrepreneurship and lectured in Princeton’s Engineering Department on
entrepreneurship for 13 years. Kellner provided the funding to establish
Princeton’s E-Lab for student entrepreneurship and in 2023 endowed Yale Law
School’s first fund for entrepreneurial excellence.


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