Peter Knowles is the President of Financial Machines, a climate tech company providing intelligent software to manage risk and maximize revenue for energy storage and renewables assets.
Peter has 25 years of experience in the commodities markets in Europe and the United States. With a focus on power markets, he has worked across financial institutions, energy trading firms and utility companies.
Prior to joining Financial Machines in 2021, he was a Managing Director at Barclays where he worked for 20 years, both in the New York and London offices. During that time he held senior management roles in Commodities, Strategy and Finance. This included Head of US Power Sales where he was responsible for delivering risk management services to the banks clients and Head of Planning and Stress Testing, assessing the bank’s opportunities, vulnerabilities and determining capital adequacy.
He currently serves as an advisor to Net Zero Markets, a company dedicated to developing risk management, trading and investment products for the global environmental markets.