CEO, Gastamo Group
Peter is CEO and partner of Gastamo Group, the Denver-based hospitality and real estate company behind Park Burger, Homegrown Tap & Dough, Perdida Kitchen, Park & CO, and Lady Nomada. Since 2011, he has guided the company’s growth from a single neighborhood restaurant into a multi-concept group with a strong development pipeline.
A College of Charleston graduate with an MBA from the University of Denver, Newlin blends financial discipline with creative vision. An innovator as well as an operator, Newlin created the concept Birdcall and Poncho Technology, a custom POS platform that helped set the brand apart as a leader in restaurant technology. Today, he focuses on upskilling restaurant executives for the era of AI—believing that teaching is the best way to learn, and that preparing leaders to use these tools effectively is the key to lasting industry impact.
Newlin co-founded the Denver Deluxe Music & Arts Festival and Fuel Hope Kitchen, which served 250,000 meals during the pandemic. He serves on the board of Birdcall and YPO Rocky Mountain, and has been recognized as a Denver Business Journal 40 Under 40 honoree and a Titan 100 Colorado 2025 winner, and has also been featured in The CEO Magazine and profiled in Nation’s Restaurant News for his innovative leadership in hospitality.
Away from work, he can be found rafting with his family near Buena Vista and mentoring the next generation of restaurateurs.
