WHO WE ARE
We are an eclectic bunch of design thinkers, business consultants, journalists, and scientists who believe in the power of entrepreneurship, story, and collective impact as potent forces for positive change. Together, we have more than 25 years of experience solving complex problems ranging from human trafficking to overfishing to literacy.
Flip Labs affiliate Future of Fish was the Runner-up in the 2012 Buckminster Fuller Challenge, an incredible honor for anyone in the field of socially responsible design.
MEET OUR TEAM
Cheryl Dahle
Co-founder & C.E.O.
Cheryl is an entrepreneur and journalist who works at the intersection of business and social change. She is founder of Future of Fish, a non-profit innovation hub that supports the collective impact of entrepreneurs whose ideas help end overfishing. Previously, she was a director at Ashoka, where she distilled knowledge from 2,500 fellows to provide strategic insight to foundations. She spent a decade writing about technology, social entrepreneurship, and business for publications including The New York Times, CIO, and Fast Company, where she founded the Social Capitalist Awards. For her work with Future of Fish, Dahle was named a national “Eco-Innovator” by USA Today in 2013 and was a finalist in the Buckminster Fuller Challenge in 2012. She has also been a Change Agent in Residence with Bainbridge Graduate Institute and is the board chair of Criterion Institute. »
Peter Battisti
Co-founder & C.O.O.
A co-founder and partner in multiple entrepreneurial ventures, Peter has 10 years of experience as an entrepreneur starting and operating renewable energy and real estate development companies. Through partnerships with high-net-worth investors and several wealth management funds, Peter has been a stakeholder in the placement of more than $20MM of real asset development. Following his passion for the start-up process and harnessing his entrepreneurial background, Peter chose to dedicate his time to working with socially responsible entrepreneurs to help launch their businesses. As an advisor and consultant, Peter has been intimately involved in developing and implementing business and investment strategies for dozens of start-up and early stage companies in the renewable energy, aquaculture, agriculture, and food service industries. To date, Peter has helped raise a total of $1.6MM of private-equity funds for his clients. Peter has had significant experience working on both sides of the “fundraising table”, providing due-diligence services to high-net-worth investors in addition to raising funds for his own ventures and those of his clients through private-equity, tax-equity, institutional lenders, and CDFI channels. »
JOIN US
We invite any talented journalists, business & marketing consultants, researchers, ethnographers, project managers, designers, storytellers, and anyone else with relevant expertise to contact us about joining our network of entrepreneur advisers, interning or consulting with us, or otherwise participating in our systems change process.
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