Peter, a barrister by background, is an accomplished and highly regarded corporate finance, M&A and strategy consulting specialist with a primary focus on the financial services, insurance and technology space, having completed a wide range of transactions in the sector with an aggregate value in the billions of pounds, over a career spanning more than 35 years. His experience includes roles with Lloyd's of London, Credit Suisse, Minet (Aon), and PwC. In his capacity as PGD Strategy's Founding Director, Peter has also performed a series of non-transactional strategy consulting roles and has successfully completed numerous other corporate development assignments in a variety of different sectors.

Prior to founding PGD Strategy in 1999, Peter served as a Corporate Finance Director with PwC specialising in strategy consulting and M&A in the financial services and insurance sectors.

He previously held senior positions as Group Corporate Development Director and a member of the Senior Management Group at the Minet Group, now part of Aon, a global insurance broking and risk advisory organisation, with responsibility for corporate finance activities worldwide. Peter's other experience includes positions as a senior corporate finance executive with Credit Suisse in London and as an employed barrister at Lloyd's of London.

Peter has previously managed an investment M&A budget of circa $800m and has also been a pivotal member of teams engaged in multi-billion pound, complex cross-border deals.

Peter has also served, for four years, as the Senior Independent Non-Executive Director on the Board of Sequel Business Solutions, the City-based premier (re)insurance software specialist provider which was sold to Verisk by Hg Capital in September 2017 for £250m. He has also previously acted as Non-Executive Chairman of Guernsey-headquartered Heritage Group, a leading independent provider of specialist insurance and financial services to clients around the world, which he helped navigate through a period of change and restructure, including several transformational transactions.

Peter has an LL. B (Law & Politics) Honours degree from the University of Birmingham and was called to the Bar of England & Wales by the Middle Temple.

His volunteering work incudes being Chairman of the UK-Cyprus Enterprise Council, a strategic body promoting UK Cypriot diaspora and UK/Cyprus innovation networks, which he helped found in December 2013, and also Chairman of the Cyprus Environment Foundation, part of the Conservation Collective, a UK-headquartered global network of local foundations funding effective grass-roots conservation initiatives to protect the environment across the Mediterranean and beyond. Peter has previously served in an elected voluntary capacity as President of the National Federation of Cypriots in the UK, representing the largest Cypriot diaspora, for 8 years.

Peter is a Fellow of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (FRSA) and speaks Greek.