Peter is a strategy director and researcher
based in Brooklyn, NY.
He enjoys cooking, college basketball, his
cats Darwin and Boo, cycling, & soul music.

Experience

Independent Consultant
Strategy Director (2020-current)
Director, User Experience (2020-current)
New York City

• Partnered with a major financial institution to create a public-facing sustainable finance narrative, increasing investor engagement and establishing a goal of $750 billion in sustainable financing by 2030.

• Advised a U.S. think tank on social, economic, and policy trends, identifying strategic opportunities that secured $10 million in new funding.

• Led consumer research for a hardware company, providing strategic insights to inform product offerings, partnerships, and go-to-market strategy, ensuring alignment with market opportunities and customer needs.

• Conducted market and competitive research for a large tech company, identifying trends to support the business case for new strategic initiatives.

SYPartners
Strategy Director, Senior Strategist, Strategist (2015–2020)
New York City

• Collaborated with the head of a leading  credit card’s travel and lifestyle division to craft a long-term strategic vision that aligned business performance goals with economic and technology trends, boosting employee engagement and cross-departmental collaboration.

• Developed an operational plan to implement the aforementioned strategic vision, leveraging existing structures to facilitate efficient allocation of resources and secure stakeholder buy-in for successful implementation.

• Partnered with public school education experts for two years to develop an expansive system of knowledge and processes to help educators and administrators rethink and redesign high school education, reaching hundreds of thousands educators, and leading to over $100M of investments in new schools and educational programs.

• Partnered with the CEO of a large technology company to develop a refreshed set of corporate values that captured the organization's unique beliefs, behaviors, and value to consumers.

• Managed over 25 multi-million-dollar business development efforts, generating $40 million in new contracts through tailored pitches, project planning, and structured pricing.

Undercurrent
Strategist (2015)
New York City

• Embedded within teams at Fortune 100 companies to understand employee experience pain points, identifying and implementing more effective and inclusive ways of working.

• Worked with the CMO and Chief Economist of a Fortune 50 company to develop a globally unified strategic vision for their marketing organization, identifying growth opportunities and fostering alignment across seven business units and five global regions.
  

 mDhil
IDEX Fellow, Program Implementation (2014–2015 )
Bangalore, India

• Collaborated with an Indian healthcare organization to develop a tablet-based distribution system for reproductive health education videos in local languages, reaching over 50,000 individuals in urban settlements.

  Designed and conducted tablet-based research assessing the effectiveness of educational videos, finding a 35% increase in informed reproductive health decisions among viewers.
  

Balloon Ventures
Enterprise Fellow (2013)
Nakuru, Kenya

• Collaborated with existing community groups, developed customized lesson plans and growth strategy specific to groups’ resources, professional goals, and financial needs.