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Peter Sage (born 13 June 1972) is a motivational speaker, entrepreneur and author. He is best known for founding companies including The Energie Fitness Group, World Wide Health Corporation, Space Energy and Sage Business School.

Early life and education
Sage was born in Leicester, England. He left high-school aged 16 and started his entrepreneurial career a year later with ‘Pete’s Toys’. In 1995 he founded the Sage Group to oversee his companies for sales, human resource management and customer relationship management.

Career
In 2003, he started a health & fitness centre chain, The Energie Fitness Group which was successful and won several industry awards. He sold the company in 2005 and started working over a space based solar power project, Space Energy for the formation of the national energy policy and later handed over it to the United Nations.

Sage was a member of the global Entrepreneurs Organisation and also served as the Chairman of the London YES Group. He was also a visiting professor for INSEAD, a graduate business school and also served on its entrepreneurship advisory board. During his career, he has primarily served governments, members of Royalty, Google, NASA and others.

Controversy
Sage was involved in a controversy with the Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). HPE claimed that he has sold $17.5m worth of servers obtained at a special discount through Space Energy venture in the UK and elsewhere, which were destined for Iraq and Afghanistan. Sage denied HPE's allegations and claimed that he was not bound by the terms and restrictions in reseller agreements once he had legal title to the servers. HPE issued a contempt of court application claiming Sage had breached the terms of a freezing order. Sage denied this though his claims were not considered valid and served 6-months as a civil prisoner. The initial allegations by HPE then failed to make it to court. During Sage’s time inside, he was praised by the governors for helping numerous prisoners and won a Koestler Award for his work. An initiative he started aimed at shifting new prisoners mindsets is now being used in numerous Prisons across the UK.