Peter Rust
CEO at Pinnacle Growth Partners
Town of Huntington, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPeter Rust is a seasoned CEO and founder with 16+ years leading boutique executive search, management consulting and telecom ventures, currently steering Pinnacle Growth Partners to match top-tier talent with growth-minded companies. He combines hands-on operational experience—scaling Con Edison Communications to a $40M run rate and serving as an interim CEO to commercialize FWD—with deep recruiting expertise informed by a team of former C-level executives. His background spans board roles and senior operating posts across telecom, media and finance, giving him a rare perspective on hiring for both startup growth and public company governance. Technically literate and curious, he codes in JavaScript for work and contributes to open-source Go/Node projects, including meaningful SQL-generation enhancements to node-sql. With an MS in Biomedical Engineering and an MBA in Finance, he blends analytical rigor, product sensibility and deal-closing instincts to deliver measurable talent and business outcomes.
16 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BA Biology/Psychology, BA Biology/Psychology at Brown UniversityMBA Finance, MBA Finance at Adelphi UniversityMS Biomedical Engineering, MS Biomedical Engineering at New York University - Polytechnic School of Engineering
Github Skills (6)
javascript10
postgresql10
sql10
nodejs9
database-design8
testing7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
brianc/node-sql
Feb 2013 - Feb 2013
SQL generation for node.js
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:10 commits in 10 days
Contributions summary:Peter primarily contributed to the `node-sql` repository by implementing and extending SQL generation capabilities. Their work focused on adding support for `CREATE TABLE`, `ALTER TABLE` (add/drop/rename column), and `DROP TABLE` statements. They also enhanced the functionality of `UPDATE` statements by allowing setting column values and fixing related ambiguous source columns. Their changes directly impacted the core functionality of generating SQL queries within the project.
nodejssql-generation
CSNW/ampersand-workshop
Oct 2014 - Oct 2014
Contributions:46 commits in 20 days
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