Just like entrepreneurs creating a startup, Peter Newell is addicted to solving problems. “When I got into a room with a bunch of startup folks and I had a problem it was like throwing fresh meat to a piranha.” A retired Army Colonel and former director of the Army's Rapid Equipping Force (REF), Pete is an accomplished entrepreneur and CEO of BMNT who is using the problem-curation skills developed from his time as with the REF to help government agencies and other large organizations adapt and evolve at startup speed. “The impetus was to create a company that would be the connective tissue that would translate things between the government, startup world, investors and others so that we can create these opportunities to actually help men and women at the edge of the battlefield.”