Personal Comfort Systems

PCS has developed a patented office chair providing thermal comfort, personal control, and overall energy savings, managed/connected via SmartPhone software.

  • Stage Prototype Ready
  • Industry Clean Technology
  • Location Oakland, CA, US
  • Currency USD
  • Founded 2014
  • Employees 3

Company Summary

Personal Comfort Systems has developed a heated/cooled, low-power, smart-phone controlled office chair that includes wireless sensors. The opportunity is to disrupt the $3.5B office/task chair industry by providing users with thermal comfort, personal control of their environment, health benefits, and proven energy savings for commercial real estate.

Team

  • Peter Rumsey
    CEO

    Widely viewed as one of the world’s foremost thought leaders on energy and sustainability
    Has redefined best building practices, delivering many of the nation’s most efficient,
    affordable and comfortable buildings.
    BS in mechanical engineering, UC Berkeley. Lecturer at Stanford; Senior Fellow.
    Rocky Mountain Institute; Professional Engineer in 15 States and ASHRAE Fellow

  • Kurt Herzog
    CFO

    President of Acutherm, HVAC equip. manufacturer  Therm-Fuser, personal temp control
    diffusers improving comfort/saving energy.
    3 decades experience in sales, finance, marketing; 2 decades overseeing manufacturing ops.
    BA in Speech and Communications from UNR

Advisors

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