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Founder and CEO

Time4Good Group

Westport, CT, USA

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Peter Boyd’s Biography

Peter Boyd is Founder & CEO of Time4Good, a social and scheduling platform that allows leaders around the world to effectively organize and optimize their time so they can dedicate themselves to the environmental and social causes they care about.

Peter is a globally recognized leader in raising awareness of environmental issues, championing entrepreneurship, business strategy, and education to foster innovative solutions to achieve a net-zero emissions world.

His work straddles the private and public spheres. He is a Resident Fellow at Yale University’s Center for Business and the Environment, a center that brings together people of all disciplines to address and advance solutions to systemic environmental problems. Peter is also a Lecturer in the Yale School of Management and a Mentor at the Tsai Center for Innovative Thinking, an interdisciplinary learning environment that cultivates leaders, innovators, and entrepreneurs in all fields.

Prior to his current roles, Peter concurrently served as Chair of the Energy Efficiency Deployment Office in the UK Department of Energy... Peter Boyd is Founder & CEO of Time4Good, a social and scheduling platform that allows leaders around the world to effectively organize and optimize their time so they can dedicate themselves to the environmental and social causes they care about.

Peter is a globally recognized leader in raising awareness of environmental issues, championing entrepreneurship, business strategy, and education to foster innovative solutions to achieve a net-zero emissions world.

His work straddles the private and public spheres. He is a Resident Fellow at Yale University’s Center for Business and the Environment, a center that brings together people of all disciplines to address and advance solutions to systemic environmental problems. Peter is also a Lecturer in the Yale School of Management and a Mentor at the Tsai Center for Innovative Thinking, an interdisciplinary learning environment that cultivates leaders, innovators, and entrepreneurs in all fields.

Prior to his current roles, Peter concurrently served as Chair of the Energy Efficiency Deployment Office in the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change, representing the agency at many national and global conferences, and COO of Richard Branson’s Carbon War Room. As COO, Peter directed fuel reducing technologies in the shipping industry and advances in the use of renewable jet fuel, and led Caribbean island nations to lessen their reliance on fossil fuels.

As a sought-after leader, Peter holds many board and advisor appointments. He was a Senior Advisor to The B Team on their ‘Net-Zero by 2050’ initiative prior to the COP21 conference in Paris. He currently serves on the board of London-based BLUE Communications, a PR and communications firm focusing on the marine and offshore markets, and the boards of Roar Africa and Fenix International. Locally, he is on the board of the Green Task Force in Westport, CT.

Peter earned a BA with honors in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from the University of Oxford. more less

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Environmental sustainability the topic of 2022 Wolcott J. Humphrey III Symposium

Peter Boyd will be the Keynote Speaker at the 2022 Wolcott J. Humphrey III Symposium on Leadership and Community Life for a discussion titled “Climate Change and Sustainability."

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BLUE Communications

Introducing The Blue Insight Low Carbon Shipping Fuels & Energy Guide 2020

Peter Boyd, Founder and CEO of Time4Good Group and Resident Fellow at Yale University's Center for Business and the Environment, contributed to the Blue Insight Low Carbon Shipping Fuels & Energy Guide 2020, published by BLUE communications. This is the first comprehensive guide tracking the organizations that are driving the low and zero carbon fuels and energy market.

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Peter Boyd’s Background

Time4Good Group

Founder and CEO

Oct 2014 - Present

New York, NY, USA

Peter created Time4Good Group in October 2014 to fulfil complimentary objectives. To create an innovative marketplace for the time of people in very high demand. To deploy strategic consultancy time to selected clients for high social, environmental and economic impact and to build a successful commercial business that benefits society through every transaction and project.

Carbon War Room

COO

Feb 2009 - Sep 2014

New York, NY, USA

The first executive on Sir Richard Branson’s global initiative (founded by ten leading global entrepreneurs) harnessing their unique combined influence to accelerate profitable solutions to climate change. Reported to Jose Maria Figueres, Former President of Costa Rica. Peter initially served as sole Launch Director, becoming Director of Operations, then COO.

Department of Energy and Climate Change

Chair

May 2012 - May 2014

London, UK

Served on a parallel two-year post to the UK government’s Department of Energy and Climate Change as Expert Chair of the Energy Efficiency Deployment Office. EEDO is a team of circa 40 civil servants leading on coordination of UK strategy and delivery of 'Energy Efficiency' policy.

Virgin Mobile

CEO of Virgin Mobile South Africa

Dec 2006 - Nov 2008

Johannesburg, ZA

Peter led the first and only virtual network operator in Africa in its growth life-stage. Tripled revenue and customer base in the consumer telecom business over two years, managed 500 FTEs, ZAR450m (c.£30m) Revenue, ZAR350m Opex.

Virgin Mobile USA

VP Marketing

Jan 2004 - Dec 2006

New York, NY, USA

Peter co-ordinated the marketing calendar for Virgin Mobile, a fast-growing, youth-oriented, wireless company. irgin Mobile is owned by Virgin and Sprint and reached four million customers in less than four years. He also oversaw c.$20m budget and led teams (25 FTEs) running Promotions, Events & Sponsorship, NonTraditional (Network) Marketing, Channel Marketing.

Virgin Student Limited

Managing Director

Dec 2000 - Dec 2003

London, UK

Peter was MD for Virgin Student Limited, a youth marketing company owned by Virgin Group with 25 FTEs and a 1,000 strong student field-marketing force. He consulted for many of UK’s largest youth brands: owned and ran the largest UK student website with circa 7m impressions pm, a student field-marketing group, an Email and SMS marketing database, a student discount card and research products.

Virgin Cola

Head of Marketing

Aug 1997 - Jan 2000

London, UK

Peter was hired as Brand Manager, promoted to Marketing Manager, then Head of Marketing reporting to MD. He drove brand strategy and marketing plans for Virgin-owned soft drinks competitor to Coke and Pepsi, growing the company to c.£40m revenue by 1999..Structured a £8m budget to grow business 26% yoy in flat market; won Drinks Industry award for best ‘Soft Drinks Press and TV Campaign’.

McKinsey & Company

Business Analyst

Aug 1995 - Jul 1997

London, UK

As part of a two-year graduate program with strategic management consultancy, Peter as involved with several projects for retail, industrial, insurance, and public clients. At the end of the program, Peter was offered an MBA scholarship. Projects included personally managing a major change program in five of South Africa’s “worst 100 police stations” for one of McKinsey’s largest Pro-bono studies.

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Current Board Positions

BLUE Communications Ltd

Non-Executive Director

Nov 2017 - Present

London, UK

BLUE, a PR Week Top 150 UK company, specialises in providing strategic PR and communications for clients in the shipping, marine, offshore and energy markets. The firm's clients include the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office, satellite communications company SES, Castrol, Parker, North P&I, GAC and Trelleborg.

Respondent

Senior Advisor

Aug 2015 - Present

New York, NY, USA

Respondent is a marketplace for sourcing targeted respondents for in-depth research interviews. B2B companies choose to leverage Respondent to conduct their research interviews and make smarter business decisions.

Roar Africa

Advisory Board

Jun 2015 - Present

New York, NY, USA

Roar Africa is the world’s only African travel brand with four centuries of lineage. Based in Manhattan, Roar Africa is led by its Zimbabwe-born CEO and Founder, delivering transformative tailored trips to Africa.

Sustainable Westport

Chairman

Dec 2014 - Present

Westport, CT, USA

Sustainable Westport is a senior voluntary group, formed to help Westport’s First Selectman achieve the town’s ambitious sustainability goal of ‘Net-Zero by 2050.’

Mayfield Group

Senior Advisor

Nov 2014 - Present

Oxford, UK

Mayfield is a PR, Communications, Advisory and investment firm specializing in marine and energy.

Fenix International

Advisory Board

May 2012 - Present

San Francisco, CA, USA

Fenix International is a venture-funded next-generation energy company with offices in East Africa and Silicon Valley, with core expertise in renewable energy, mobile finance, and last-mile sales, marketing, distribution and customer service.

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Previous Board Positions

The B Team

Senior Advisor and Climate Lead

Oct 2014 - 2016

New York, NY, USA

Peter advised on B Team's climate initiative (calling for 'Net-Zero by 2050') leading up to the COP21 climate talks in Paris. The B Team is a unique, innovative, international non-profit focusing on driving a better way of doing business for people and the planet. Its leaders include Richard Branson, Arianna Huffington, Mo Ibrahim, Paul Polman, Mary Robinson, Muhammad Yunus.

Philanthropy

Earthplace

Board of Trustees

Jan 2015 - Dec 2018

Westport, CT, USA

Peter serves on the board of this innovative Nature Discovery & Environmental Learning Center. Its mission is to build a passion in the community for nature and the environment through education, experience and action.

Publications

"To achieve net-zero, let’s agree on one definition of success"

Co-author

Sep 2020

Peter Boyd and co-author Casey R. Pickett discuss the strategy needed to reach the 2015 Paris Agreement goals, citing significant action from all sectors and levels of society. “Net-Zero” greenhouse gas emissions can earn its capital letters, they write, if it is: Fully-scoped, Science-based, Paris Agreement-compliant and Cumulative.

Public Service

Tsai Center for Innovative Thinking at Yale

Mentor-in-Residence

2017 - Aug 2020

New Haven, CT, USA

The mission of the Tsai Center for Innovative Thinking at Yale is to inspire & support students from diverse backgrounds & disciplines to seek innovative ways to address real-world problems. His roles include guest-lecturing, running workshops, helping accelerate social & environmental entrepreneurship across campus, offering career advice for students & co-hosting the Net-Zero Action Group.

Academic Appointments

Yale School of Management

Lecturer in the Practice of Management

Feb 2019 - Present

New Haven, CT, USA

The Yale School of Management, also known as Yale SOM, is a world-renowned business school that offers MBA, EMBA, MAM, MMS, PhD and Executive Education.

Yale University

Resident Fellow - Center for Business and the Environment

Oct 2015 - Present

New Haven, CT, USA

Peter is a Guest-lecturer on selected courses in Graduate and MBA programs. He accelerates social & environmental entrepreneurship at Yale including serving on judging panels of Sabin Prize and Sobotka Prize, 1x1 clinics and helping Yale Entrepreneurship Institute. Peter also provides career advice and leading student discussion groups on net-zero impact.

Peter Boyd’s Education

University of Oxford

BA Hons, Philosophy, Politics, Economics

1991 - 1994

George Watson's College

6 Scottish Certificate Education ‘Highers’

1985 - 1991