Peter has nearly 20 years of institutional private credit and private equity experience, having led or co-led strategies for prominent investment firms.
Prior to founding Banyan Ridge, Peter was a Managing Director at 777 Partners, a Miami-based investment firm with over $10 billion AUM, where he ran the Private Credit and Special Opportunities strategies. In this capacity, he focused on sourcing, structuring, executing and managing complex and unique direct lending and private equity opportunities that were frequently uncorrelated to market conditions and that were structured to generate significantly outsized returns relative to the overall risk profile. Prior to joining 777 Partners in 2018, Peter was a Director for Arena Investors, a global investment firm headquartered in NYC with over $4 billion AUM, focused on illiquid credit and special situations. In this role, he led numerous non-sponsored and sponsored direct lending investments across various industries and geographies. Prior to Arena, Peter was a Vice President in the credit fund at Comvest Partners, a private investment firm with ~$9 billion AUM. Peter also worked for a middle market private equity firm, and York Street Capital Partners, an investment firm focused on private debt and equity investments. Earlier in his career, he was an investment banker in the Leveraged Finance group at Morgan Stanley in New York.
Peter graduated cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania with a B.A. in International Relations with a Cluster in Business Studies from the Wharton School.