Primary Job Title President & CEO Primary Organization 
Rackwise
Gender Male
Mr. Archbold joined Rackwise, Inc. as its Chief Executive Officer in September 2011, bringing over 30 years of senior management and entrepreneurial experience in Finance, Investment Banking, Merchant Banking, Venture Capital, Portfolio Management, and Alternative Green Energy. Mr. Archbold began his career with the investment banking firm of Blyth
Eastman Dillon & Co., which was subsequently acquired by Paine Webber. At Paine Webber, Mr. Archbold earned the distinction of becoming the youngest Senior Vice President and Divisional Director in the firm while managing Paine Webber’s Boardroom Operations from the headquarters office in New York City. Mr. Archbold later assumed the senior management responsibility for the western-half of the United States as the youngest Senior Vice President for the New York-based investment banking and institutional research firm of Donaldson, Lufkin, and Jenrette, Inc., the first Wall Street firm to be listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Mr. Archbold subsequently collaborated in a partnership with the former Dean of Finance at Northwestern University’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management to develop and manage quantitative analysis investment management programs and actively managed investment funds for state and local governmental retirement funds, endowment funds, non-profit organizations, corporate retirement funds, municipalities, individuals, and brokerage firms. The firm was eventually sold to Dean Witter Morgan Stanley.
In 2001, Mr. Archbold founded as CEO and Chairman a NASDAQ green alternative energy management company which, under Mr. Archbold’s leadership, successfully developed an environmentally green cogeneration platform while negotiating and creating strategic and alliance partnerships with significant industry leaders, including: The Southern California Gas Company, the largest natural gas utility in the world; URS Corporation, the largest civil engineering firm in the United States; Cummins Corporation; and Caterpillar Corporation, the world’s largest manufacturer of natural gas reciprocating engines and earth moving equipment. Mr. Archbold led the company’s growth from a development stage company to a successful commercial entity with a $500 million market capitalization while selling its’ green energy products to such companies as Hilton Hotels, Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide, Inc. and Federated Department Stores.
In 2009 Mr. Archbold accepted a position of Director for the venture capital firm of Black Diamond Financial Group, LLC, the original venture capital group and majority shareholders of Mr. Archbold’s green energy company and whose original founding partners included John P. Calamos of Calamos Asset Management, and P. Imeson, formerly of Calamos Funds. Black Diamond Financial Group is a major shareholder of Rackwise, Inc.
Mr. Archbold has one son, William A. Archbold, who is currently serving as a Captain in the United States Army after graduating as a member of the Class of 2010 from the United States Military Academy at West Point.
