Bio

Tom Peters is a founding partner and Managing Director at Inverness Advisors. Tom focuses on technology and digital media and especially the opportunities created where those sectors come together. Tom began his investment banking career in the M&A group at Dillon, Read & Co. in New York in 1987. In 1991, Tom joined Hambrecht & Quist in San Francisco to help start the firm’s M&A practice and has focused on M&A advisory work and capital raising transactions for emerging growth technology and healthcare companies since that time. Tom was the lead banker on numerous transactions at H&Q through the 1990’s and early 2000's. He actively identified and sponsored direct investments through H&Q Venture Partners and other investment funds. Prior to forming Inverness Advisors, Tom led the Communications & Digital Media Technology practice at Montgomery & Co., a firm he joined in 2005. Tom has advised on over 150 closed transactions. He focused exclusively on M&A transactions for the first half of his career and over the last fifteen years has been actively involved in both negotiated M&A and capital raising transactions. He has worked on a wide range of transactions with clients across all sectors of technology, communications and media. Tom graduated magna cum laude from Washington & Lee University and received his MBA from the University of Virginia’s Darden Graduate School of Business.