OUR TEAM
Richard N. Swett
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Ambassador Swett, a licensed architect, has forty years of experience in the architecture and energy fields. CPES has served as Project Manager for a $1.2 billion healthcare campus in Istanbul and is currently developing projects worldwide. He is the co-creator of the CPES4D development model.
Prior to establishing CPES, he was the Managing Principal of the DC office and responsible for obtaining international contracts for Leo A. Daly Architects and Engineers - one of the top 10 US design firms at the time.
He worked as an alternative energy entrepreneur in the Northeast, building biomass power plants in New England.
He served as a member of the US House of Representatives from New Hampshire from 1991-1995. He then served as the US Ambassador to Denmark from 1998-2001.
While serving as Ambassador, he reorganized the embassy management, resulting in smoother transfers of information and cooperation between departments.
He was a contributing author for "A Nation Reconstructed", 1997, and authored "Leadership by Design: Creating an Architecture of Trust", 2005.
Awards: Arnold W. Brunner Award, NY AIA (2001); National Economic Commission Citation of Appreciation, American Legion (1994); Ten Outstanding Young Americans, US Junior Chamber of Commerce (1993); The President's Award, AIA (1992, 1994); Grand-Croix of the Order of the Dannebrog, bestowed by Her Majesty Queen Margrethe II of Denmark, (2001) and many more awards and honorary degrees.
Michael Rowan
Co-Founder & Executive Vice President, Business Development
Mr. Rowan is the creator of the enterprise solution model for deploying local wealth creation methodologies in developing worlds and co-creator of the CPES4D animated visual model for implementing the enterprise solution.
He helped design and implement the enterprise solution in Alaska as it was created for 200 Alaska Native enterprises producing over $155 billion since 1976, lifting most Alaska Natives from poverty to middle class in one generation.
He has served as a strategic consultant in 16 nations on communications in developing political economies.
His clients include governments, energy and agriculture companies, institutions, and political campaigns from five continents.
He authored Getting Over Chavez and Poverty in 2006 (El Nacional Libros), and The Threat Closer to Home in 2009 (Free Press/NY).