Our Founder/CEO
Peter “The AngelPreneur” Ortmann
Serial Social Entrepreneur | Visionary | Resilient Innovator
Peter “The AngelPreneur” Ortmann, is an offshore sailor and relentless force in socially responsible entrepreneurship. Having had his first business at age 16, over the years he has managed to create and design dozens ventures, plus his Clear Blue Oceans Foundation (CBO Foundation), an ocean and environmental awareness focused non-profit organization.
Despite a life defined by extraordinary trials and unwavering resilience, Peter has turned adversity into action by building purpose-driven ventures - refusing to give up on his integrated vision for a better, more equitable and sustainable future.
Peter “The AngelPreneur” Ortmann
Known by some close allies as “The Shark” or “Big KaTuna” - Peter, now a young 70, blends his sharp business instinct with deep passion, to forge a unique path as a principled angel investor in his own projects. A business rebel committed to driving real change with solutions that address today's issues. Including his AngelPreneur Impact Fund with five companies, his self-funding ClubZERO Rewards membership platform, CBO Foundation's ClearBlue Agricultural Resilience Research & Training Center, and West Maui Resilience Center that is designed to create a campus-like environment that brings growing clean food, renewable energy & atmospheric water making together with the local community.
A Life Shaped by Challenge
Peter’s entrepreneurial journey may have started at age 16, but it took a dramatic turn after the September 11, 2001
attacks in New York, which led to the collapse of his HVAC and metal fabrication contracting businesses in California in 2003, which resulted in the loss of his country club estate home in 2004 and problems within his personal life.
In August 2005 a deeply personal loss followed - the death of his first granddaughter, Marissa, born on his birthday, lost to a flash flood in Arizona. That began a multi-year journey to build Marissa’s Reef For Heavenly Helpers – an aquatic memorial he designed to honor her life - now destined as the signature attraction of his Aquarium Plaza project.
In 2007, betrayed by trusted business partners further tested his resolve and trust of close associates. That set off a multi-year adventure that included extended business trips to Vancouver, Canada, Playa Del Carmen, Mexico and the British Virgin Islands (BVI) to explore new business opportunities.
In late 2011 Peter and Dave, one of his business partners, set out to build the Hybrid Sailing Club, an all electric sailboat yacht charter business in the British Virgin Islands (BVI). As they celebrated the upcoming launch with their wives during the Christmas Holiday in the BVI, on Christmas Day, Dave died next to Peter in the rental car while returning to their hotel, with wives in the car. That event ended that venture (RIP Dave).
By 2012, Peter became an early adopter of Bitcoin, inspired by the promise of decentralization independence. Although he lost several thousand coins to failed exchanges and fraud in those pioneering years, he gained the priceless wisdom about crypto technology, affiliated programs and timing of events - themes that echo through all his ventures today.
Fast forward to 2017, just as Peter was ready to launch a large scale Plastic2Power project in Puerto Rico, which took years of planning, Hurricane Irma, followed by Maria two weeks later tore through the Island causing heavy and extensive damage on the island and its power grid. As a result, the project was terminated.
By late 2019 Peter had revised his company business plans and set course to finally building his proposed Maui Aquarium Plaza Resort retirement projects. However, just as he planned to start presenting them to Maui officials in 2020, the Covid Pandemic hit, ending those projects sending The Shark swimming back to the drawing board.
These pivotal moments combined, as hard as they may be to believe, led to a profound shift in Peter’s overall worldview, forging a deeper understanding of government deceptions, false narratives, human nature, personal loss, and the unspoken truths of the business world. These experiences are now embedded into his final projects. As The Shark – always an optimist views it - “Nothing worth having ever comes easy – but now is the right time to bring all my life’s design works to life.”
Global Experience, Grounded Vision
Peter has lived and worked in California, Hawaii, Utah, Reno & Las Vegas, Canada, Mexico, and the British Virgin Islands, absorbing lessons from diverse cultures and economic systems. These experiences fuel his geopolitically aware approach to business and government today. Now based in Las Vegas, Nevada, Peter resides in what he calls America’s vast “creative entertainment and sporting capital,” a hub of positive energy where he’s developing his biggest venture yet – building a sustainable business and non-profit empire.
A Mission That Matters
Peter is now focused on building GridZero, a sustainability-conscious company driving a network of real socially responsible businesses all working together to deliver regenerative infrastructure, clean energy, food security, and atmospheric water generation from humidity within its projects. Plus address the growing working homeless crisis facing America and entrepreneurs.
To support and fund this mission, he developed ClubZERO Rewards, a revolutionary new self-funding membership platform where like-minded entrepreneurs fund meaningful projects and non-profit initiatives while earning real-world perks and even real income. Member dues are allocated directly to member benefits, his web series, Impact Fund ventures, and nonprofit CBO Foundation fighting ocean plastic waste, ag land pollution and water insecurity.
The AngelPreneur Building The Dream In Real Time - Web Series
Peter’s unfolding story will be featured in a web series beginning mid 2026 called The AngelPreneur: Building The Dream In Real Time. It will be streamed exclusively to ClubZERO members and shares an unfiltered view documenting the ongoing operations of his GridZero businesses, ClubZERO growth, Clear Blue Oceans Foundation and his resilience projects. Those set within an integrated campus-like setting that provides renewable energy, clean water, sustainable agriculture, to create a working resilience hub model for others to follow.
The Shark with a Cause
Whether known as “The AngelPreneur” or “The Big KaTuna,” or The Shark,” Peter is driven by a singular purpose-driven goal of creating what others think impossible. To inspire others to see “I'm-Possible” as The Shark defines that word. His legacy, however won’t just be wrapped in his various companies, initiatives or projects - it will be found in the lives they improve, ecosystems that get restored, and the many truths uncovered. The Shark is out to win this time, and all signs indicate he will. Join ClubZERO and follow his journey while engage in its outcome.
“I’ve been reeled in more than a few times — but I escape and keep swimming upstream.
My secret is I never let life events, or other people’s perception of me, my projects or goals
become my reality. Because sometimes it takes a Shark to protect what really matters to them.”
Peter "The AngelPreneur" Ortmann