Peter McHale
CoFounder and CEO, Gaia AI
Peter started Gaia AI in 2020 alongside his co-founder Matthew Carpenter. Gaia AI applies cutting-edge AI+robotics to make trees a viable, economical carbon sequestration solution. Gaia AI is an MIT & Harvard startup using LiDAR, computer vision, and satellite data to collect high-quality biomass data in forests, helping land owners, project developers, and investors understand the carbon stock and timber content of their land.
Before Gaia AI, Peter worked as an Engineer with a focus on building AI for autonomous vehicles. He was a Robotics Engineer and, later on, became a Technical Program Manager for May Mobility.
He holds a BA and Master's in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, a Master’s degree in Robotics from the University of Michigan, and an MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management.