Pete Cartwright

Avalon EcoPower, Co-founder, Calpine Corp, USA

Peter Cartwright cofounded Calpine Corporation in 1984 after a long career in engineering that included building nuclear power plants around the world for General Electric. Cartwright established Calpine as a firm that provided management services to independent power generation companies but went on to build Calpine into one of the largest independent power companies in the United States and the largest provider of environmentally cleaner "green power." Considered by many industry analysts as a visionary in the modern power industry, colleagues and employees note that Cartwright fostered the company's growth by rewarding creativity and embracing risk.