{"id":1408,"date":"2017-06-09T16:14:59","date_gmt":"2017-06-09T16:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skippingstone.com\/?page_id=1408"},"modified":"2026-08-05T16:50:33","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T21:50:33","slug":"peter-weigand-ceo","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/skippingstone.com\/index.php\/peter-weigand-ceo\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Weigand, CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='av-layout-grid-1'  class='av-layout-grid-container av-9cl0i8-3b3060576bb896e222c00a822778c795 entry-content-wrapper main_color av-flex-cells  avia-builder-el-0  avia-builder-el-no-sibling   container_wrap sidebar_right'  >\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-79ugxs-98e7dac7a8a03babbf2255b76171c8f1\">\n.flex_cell.av-79ugxs-98e7dac7a8a03babbf2255b76171c8f1{\nvertical-align:top;\n}\n.responsive #top #wrap_all .flex_cell.av-79ugxs-98e7dac7a8a03babbf2255b76171c8f1{\npadding:30px 30px 30px 30px !important;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div class='flex_cell av-79ugxs-98e7dac7a8a03babbf2255b76171c8f1 av-gridrow-cell av_one_third no_margin  avia-builder-el-1  el_before_av_cell_two_third  avia-builder-el-first  content-align-top'  ><div class='flex_cell_inner'><p><section  class='av_textblock_section av-k531l8t6-d16861e2ca7d34f864ed83b102f7b629 '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-5522\" src=\"https:\/\/skippingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/peter-2021-01-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/skippingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/peter-2021-01-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/skippingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/peter-2021-01-80x80.jpg 80w, https:\/\/skippingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/peter-2021-01-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/skippingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/peter-2021-01-1030x1030.jpg 1030w, https:\/\/skippingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/peter-2021-01-36x36.jpg 36w, https:\/\/skippingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/peter-2021-01-180x180.jpg 180w, https:\/\/skippingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/peter-2021-01-705x705.jpg 705w, https:\/\/skippingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/peter-2021-01-120x120.jpg 120w, https:\/\/skippingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/peter-2021-01-450x450.jpg 450w, https:\/\/skippingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/peter-2021-01-610x610.jpg 610w, https:\/\/skippingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/peter-2021-01.jpg 1043w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-k531l8t6-1-03ea7324363c9af32da4ce0c48be3612\">\n#top .av_textblock_section.av-k531l8t6-1-03ea7324363c9af32da4ce0c48be3612 .avia_textblock{\nfont-size:16px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-k531l8t6-1-03ea7324363c9af32da4ce0c48be3612 '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Peter Weigand<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>CEO<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-4j6qa8-8efacd82f2d6a2b2e7b34077ec53052c\">\n.flex_cell.av-4j6qa8-8efacd82f2d6a2b2e7b34077ec53052c{\nvertical-align:top;\n}\n.responsive #top #wrap_all .flex_cell.av-4j6qa8-8efacd82f2d6a2b2e7b34077ec53052c{\npadding:30px 140px 30px 30px !important;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div class='flex_cell av-4j6qa8-8efacd82f2d6a2b2e7b34077ec53052c av-gridrow-cell av_two_third no_margin  avia-builder-el-4  el_after_av_cell_one_third  avia-builder-el-last  content-align-top'  ><div class='flex_cell_inner'><section  class='av_textblock_section av-1xr6bk-ff1f76b7a77323eb40e56721e109aa95 '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p><strong>Energy Industry Experience:<\/strong> 30+ years<br \/>\n<strong>Expertise:<\/strong> Market Strategy &amp; Business Plan Implementation, Mergers &amp; Acquisitions<br \/>\n<strong>Honors:<\/strong> Ernst &amp; Young Entrepreneur of the Year, Pennwell\u2019s Top 50 Most Influential People in Energy, Industry Era 10 Best CEOs of 2019<br \/>\n<strong>Contact:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/peter-weigand-04a8987\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LinkedIn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Peter Weigand, CEO of Skipping Stone, has over 30 years of energy experience. Peter founded Skipping Stone in 1996. The energy strategy and market consulting firm has worked with clients across the energy industry, including natural gas, power markets, demand response, energy technology, and renewable energy.<\/p>\n<p>Peter\u2019s is an interesting journey across two and a half decades of global energy market change. He has been CEO of four companies in the energy and technology arena, taken one of his companies\u2019 public, bought and sold over a dozen companies and been instrumental in the success of many more.<\/p>\n<p>He has direct relationships with several hundred energy market leaders and has performed strategy development for over 100 energy clients, both domestically and internationally.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, as CEO of Commerce Energy, he led that company\u2019s growth into the largest US retail energy marketing company and ultimately took the company public. Subsequent to Commerce, Mr. Weigand was COO of ACN Europe, a consumer telecommunications company with operations in 15 countries.<\/p>\n<p>Peter has written three energy textbooks and has been published in numerous publications from Forbes and Business Week to a wide variety of energy industry standards. He has spoken globally at events from small leadership venues to conventions with more than twenty thousand attendees. Peter has served on eight boards of directors and three energy think tanks, and founded his alma mater\u2019s entrepreneurship center, which is ranked in the top 100.<\/p>\n<p>Pennwell has named Peter as one of the Top 50 most influential people in energy, Ernst &amp; Young has honored him as an Entrepreneur of the Year, and his prior companies have been named to several \u2018fastest growing\u2019 lists, including the Inc. 500. Most recently, Industry Era magazine selected Peter as one of the ten best CEOs of 2019.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/skippingstone.com\/index.php\/greg-lander-coo\/\">Greg Lander<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/skippingstone.com\/index.php\/taiichi-asano-president-skipping-stone-japan\/\">Taiichi Asano<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/skippingstone.com\/index.php\/eric-alam-president-na\/\">Eric Alam<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1408","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Peter Weigand, CEO - Skipping Stone<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/skippingstone.com\/index.php\/peter-weigand-ceo\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Peter Weigand, CEO - 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