PETER MANTAS
President & CEO, SaaS, Mentor, University of California Berkeley
Professional experience
Peter is a serial entrepreneur in Silicon Valley with diverse technology companies. He has mentored and/led sensing, safety, SaaS, VoIP, biofuels, hydrogen fuel cells, integrated circuit and numerous other technology and services companies. He has mentored, advised and developed strong leaders throughout his career.
He gives back to his community by mentoring at University of California Berkeley, at incubators and accelerators. Peter’s passion is to mentor Hellenes who are themselves interested in not only learning but paying it forward. When mentoring he challenges the team to answer questions themselves. He challenges entrepreneurs to start thinking different and to see things from the perspective of customers, partners and other stakeholders.
Peter is currently the president of an early stage enterprise social collaboration SaaS company. He is experienced in leading organizations from early stage start-ups through large high-tech public companies. One of his career highlights is the creation of a disruptive new strategic business unit which he grew to over $52M in annual revenue within 5 years.
High integrity executive possessing exceptional skills in analytics, business strategy, value selling, marketing, channels, product management, branding and operations. Effective at scaling, raising capital while managing tight budgets through initial stages of a startup.