Tom Peters Bio

Tom Peters is a founding partner and Managing Director at Inverness Advisors. He 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 (H&Q was acquired by JP Morgan in 2000). 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 was head of Tech M&A at Cowen and also led the Communications & Digital Media Technology practice at Montgomery & Co., a firm he joined in 2005. Tom graduated magna cum laude from Washington & Lee University and received his MBA from the University of Virginia’s Darden School.