Peter Nelson
Professional Business Consultant at Self-employed
Pine Island, Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolPeter Nelson is a seasoned business consultant and serial entrepreneur with 11+ years of formal consulting experience and a multi-decade track record of senior leadership across startups, manufacturing, and hospitality. Based in Pine Island, Minnesota, he specializes in strategic planning, growth initiatives, exit strategies, and non-traditional financing, often stepping into executive roles (CEO/COO/CFO) during critical startup phases. He has a practical engineering foundation (BS Mechanical Engineering) and an Executive MBA, which he pairs to translate technical innovation into commercial success—evident in patent-driven growth and consecutive years of revenue improvement. Peter also brings governance and advisory experience from board roles, including founding membership on a state advisory board and chairing nominations and governance at his university foundation. Comfortable moving between hands-on operational leadership and high-level strategy, he’s known for assembling teams, mentoring talent, and handing off responsibilities as organizations scale. An interesting thread through his career is blending rural, place-based ventures (a family resort) with technology-driven companies, reflecting a pragmatic, community-minded approach to entrepreneurship.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
MBA, Executive Leadership, MBA, Executive Leadership at University of Saint Thomas - School of BusinessUniversity of Minnesota Twin Cities
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Github Skills (45)
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
pbnelson/rotswap
Nov 2016 - Apr 2017
Contributions:39 commits, 5 PRs, 40 pushes in 5 months
acerportraitrotationtabletlinux
pbnelson/pbnelson.github.io
Sep 2018 - Jan 2019
My public github pages
Contributions:2 PRs, 13 pushes, 2 branches in 4 months
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