Piers serves as a Venture Partner at Earth Foundry, leveraging his expertise in AI, IIoT, and enterprise SaaS to advise the firm on due diligence for industrial and clean-tech related software investments. Piers is a seasoned digital technology entrepreneur and executive, with over 20 years of experience at the confluence of enterprise software, industrial, and energy sectors.
Prior to joining Earth Foundry, Piers held the dual roles of Chief Commercial Officer and Chief Strategy Officer at Honeywell Connected Enterprise. In these capacities, he oversaw marketing, sales excellence, strategic planning, partnerships, M&A, and venture investing. His leadership was instrumental in driving HCE's growth through multiple strategic venture investments in industrial software start-ups.
Before his tenure at Honeywell, Piers was the VP of Sales and Technology Partnerships at Arundo Analytics, where he led global sales and partnerships. He also founded, scaled, and successfully exited Digital H2O, a predictive analytics company that developed award-winning software for managing water in energy production.
Earlier in his career, Piers led corporate strategy for Tendril, a leading smart-grid data analytics company. He also spent thirteen years as a strategy consultant at Booz & Company’s technology strategy practice, where he built a data analytics capability and spearheaded several strategic transformations across the aerospace & defense, automotive, energy, and manufacturing sectors.
