Pete Rivett


Pete Rivett is a seasoned technology executive, knowledge engineer, and a technology standard setter for over 20 years. He has been heavily involved in many ontology and knowledge graph standards, both enterprise-specific and industry-wide including the Financial Industry Business Ontology (FIBO) and the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) LEI ontology. He was founding director of Enterprise Knowledge Graph Foundation (EKGF) and for many years sat on the Architecture Board of Object Management Group (OMG), active in most OMG modeling and ontology standards, including the OMG Standard Business Report Model specification.

In his career Pete worked with Golden, an a16z funded Web3 startup as their Ontologist. For many years, Pete was Chief Technology Officer for Adaptive, a leading metadata management vendor which was recognized as a “cool vendor” by Gartner.

Pete has spent his career in data management, metadata management and knowledge graphs; working on both sides of the Atlantic for large multinational corporates, startups, product vendors and standard setters. He’s helped create many standard and organizational specific ontologies, coupled with scalable data.

Pete is highly pragmatic and is driven by the specification and application of standards to real world use cases that deliver business value, rather than theoretical purity.

Pete holds a BSc Honors in Computing and Information Systems from the University of Manchester.