About DGI
We’re excited about the potential to solve real-world problems.
DGI searches out unique technologies and opportunities that can have a significant positive impact on the environment, benefit society or demonstrate the value of art and history – to inform the present by preserving both.
Hello,
When you grow up in a mining camp in the Mojave Desert, you see and learn a lot of things. Everybody works because there’s a lot to do. And if you don’t want to work, well, you move back to town. In a mining camp it doesn’t take long to find out who someone really is.
When you open the tap in a mining camp, water doesn’t come out unless you work to get it there. When you want trees for shade in the summer, first you have to plant them and then you water them by hand. When you grow up in a desert mining camp… when the view out your back door is nothing but cacti, sage and distant mountains… when the light at sunset on the eastern mountain slopes is different every evening… when you meet someone who’s been called to the desert to fulfill their life’s work… then you’ll have met someone like me, Peter Simon, founder of Diamond Gold Investors.
DGI is the lead investor in zNanoMembranes, whose founder is dedicated to the ideal of clean water.
DGI is an investor in Senzing, a company whose technology is designed to find out who someone really is.
DGI is a patron to Death Valley Junction’s Amargosa Opera House, its walls covered in murals painted by Marta Becket who dedicated her life to the arts in DVJ.
DGI was also investor and advisor to Las Vegas Rock, a LEED-certified quarry whose main products are a sand that improves the efficiency of underground irrigation and a crushed rock that reduces the amount of water needed to grow trees.
Explore this site to learn more about DGI and what we do, or text me at 702-376-0005.
Yours truly,
Peter and the DGI team
Meet The Team
Peter Simon
Peter is the managing member of Diamond Gold Investors, LLC. He is a lifelong entrepreneur and began by operating a small truck stop casino before he was of legal gambling age. Through partnerships and positions with Gold Strike Partners, Mandalay Resort Group, its riverboat casinos and tribal land casinos, Peter continues to be active in the gaming industry in Las Vegas, which aids his philanthropic endeavors to make the world a better place. LinkedIn
Dr. Colleen Spiegel
Colleen, Director of Strategic Planning at zNanoMembranes, has nineteen years of experience in research and development, process engineering and technical writing. Colleen is the author of “Designing and Building Fuel Cells” (McGraw-Hill) and “PEM Fuel Cell Modeling and Simulation Using MATLAB” (Elsevier Science). She has a BS and MS in Chemical Engineering and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of South Florida.
Joy Simon, Esquire
Joy is a member of, and legal counsel for, Diamond Gold Investors, LLC. She has an LLM in Corporate Law from the University of San Diego.
Susan Wilson
Susan has provided marketing communications for a variety of DGI-influenced businesses over the past 30 years. Her background in national parks (Grand Canyon, Death Valley, Yosemite) and her work with island resorts and attractions (Sheraton in Hawaii, Hyatt in Hawaii, Red Sail Sports in Grand Canyon and Aruba) all connect with water — or the lack of it.
Kim Grant
Kim, a journalist and digital entrepreneur, bridges gulfs between a client’s vision and a developer’s execution. Water is the thread connecting readers of her 45 authored guidebooks — whether open oceans or landlocked seas, lakes or rivers, icy waterfalls or hot springs, glaciers or gulfs. Kim voraciously consumes and curates media and makes connections on social media.
DGI Creatives
DGI benefits from a variety of creative sources. Two specifically assist in communicating the DGI message through marketing materials in print, digital, web and social: Amy K. Brown and Jeffrey Samorano.
