Pierre joined NRDC in April 2010 after 20 years in the I.T. industry where he worked in software development, hardware integration and most recently as the lead for HP's energy efficiency and climate strategy. Pierre's focus at NRDC is to reduce the energy consumed by information technology and consumer electronics in spite of their rapid growth. While information technology has a tremendous potential to transform the way we live and work and help the world transition towards a low-carbon economy, the global explosion in the number of electronics devices continues to make energy efficiency of computers and the internet a critical priority.
Pierre received a M.S. from Ecole Centrale de Paris and Diploma in Computer Science from Cambridge University. He started his career in the UK and France, and moved to the Silicon Valley in 2004.
When not working on computers, Pierre enjoys spending time with his family, and trail running and orienteering in the San Francisco Bay Area parks. Pierre is also a member of the Sierra Club where he helped launch the Cool Cities campaign in the Silicon Valley.
Although technology has already done wonders in making the world more efficient, IT still claims an outsized share of the world's energy and emissions. We need to focus on growing IT's reach......
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