Team

Peter Kellner

Founder and Managing Partner

Peter Kellner founded Richmond Global in 1999.  Richmond is a firm with venture capital investments in technology and communications in the U.S., China, and India. A social entrepreneur, in 1997 Mr. Kellner co-founded Endeavor, a pioneering organization promoting entrepreneurship in emerging markets; and in 1992, he co-founded Hungary's Environmental Management & Law Association (EMLA), one of Central Europe's leading NGOs developing environmental law and policy.

Mr. Kellner is Chairman of the board of Obopay, Inc., and is a board member of AdChina, Inc. He serves on the nonprofit boards of Endeavor and Ashoka Youth Venture. He is a Trustee of the Allen-Stevenson School in New York and of the International College in Beirut, Lebanon.  He is a Member of the Council on Foreign Relations; Crown Fellow, The Aspen Institute; Member, Pacific Council on International Policy (PCIP); Member, International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS); and Member, North America Council of Ashoka.  In 2009, he was selected as a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum.

He received his undergraduate degree from Princeton University and was a Fulbright Scholar to Hungary after college. He received a J.D. from Yale Law School and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Justin Rockefeller

Principal
justin.rockefeller@rglobal.com

Justin Rockefeller is a Principal of Richmond Global and a Kauffman Fellow through the Center for Venture Education. Mr. Rockefeller focuses on deal sourcing and investor relations. He is also responsible for examining investments in sustainable enterprise development and is a Director of the Richmond Sustainability Foundation, which makes grants as equity to such endeavors.

Prior to Richmond, Mr. Rockefeller was Vice President of Uhuru Capital Management, an investment management platform designed to enable investors to pursue superior financial returns while facilitating global economic and social development.  Previously, Mr. Rockefeller co-founded and was National Program Director of GenerationEngage, a nonprofit organization that empowers young Americans with the resources and access they need to become leaders in their communities and active participants in our democracy.  In 2009, GenerationEngage merged with a similar organization, Mobilize.org.  He currently serves on the board and investment committee of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, and the Executive Committee of The International Council of The Museum of Modern Art.  He received a B.A. from Princeton University.

Andras Forgacs

Managing Director

Andras Forgacs is Managing Director of Richmond Global. His focus is the day-to-day management of Richmond’s existing portfolio of direct and indirect investments as well as sourcing new investment opportunities.

Prior to Richmond, Andras was a consultant in the New York office of McKinsey & Company advising global financial institutions and private equity/venture capital firms. Previously, Andras helped found the client-facing E-commerce Group of Citigroup developing award-winning products to support Citi’s corporate and investment banking clients. Andras began his career with Citigroup as an investment banker in the Financial Strategy Group advising the bank’s largest corporate clients on a range of financial and capital structure issues.

Andras serves on the board of Voxiva and Organovo (which he co-founded in 2007). He is a board observer of AdChina, LearnVest and Fluent Mobile.  He is also Founder and Chairman Emeritus of the international non-profit Resolution Project. Andras is a Kauffman Fellow with the Center for Venture Education and a Term Member with the Council on Foreign Relations.

Andras holds an MBA from the Wharton School of Business and a Bachelor of Arts with honors from Harvard University.

Tim Campbell

Director, India

Tim Campbell is Director of Richmond Global's India office in New Delhi. Mr. Campbell focuses his time at Richmond Global on emerging communications technologies and developing markets.

Previously, Mr. Campbell was a Principal for Richmond Global in Seattle, where he focused on mobile communications, messaging, encryption, and other telecommunications technologies in the United States, Europe, Asia and the Middle East.  As a policy analyst at the Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis (IFPA) in Washington and at the Centre Français sur les Etats-Unis at the Institut Français des Relations Internationales (CFE-IFRI) in Paris, Mr. Campbell studied European political integration and transatlantic relations.  He began his career interest in telecommunications as a financial analyst for MCI WorldCom.  Mr. Campbell also worked as a financial analyst for CapitalOne Financial.  Mr. Campbell currently serves on the board of C & J Clark Ltd.

Mr. Campbell graduated from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris and earned a BA in Economics from the College of William and Mary.