24 Facts About Peter Weinberg

Peter Amory Weinberg was born on c 1957 and is an American businessman.

Peter Weinberg spent almost twenty years of his career at Goldman Sachs before co-founding Perella Weinberg Partners with merger specialist, Joseph Perella in 2006.

Peter Weinberg was with Morgan Stanley's Corporate Finance Department from 1986 to 1988.

Peter Weinberg joined Goldman Sachs in 1988 and became a partner in 1992.

Peter Weinberg held a number of senior management positions at the firm.

Peter Weinberg founded the Financial Sponsors Group, led Investment Banking Services, ran the Communications, Media and Telecom Group, and co-headed the Global Investment Banking Division.

Peter Weinberg rose to CEO of Goldman Sachs International, a position he occupied in London from 1999 to 2005.

Peter Weinberg was on the firm's Management Committee and led the firm's European Management Committee.

In 2005, after having been chief executive of Goldman Sachs International for seven years, Peter Weinberg decided he wanted to start a new company.

The company, called Perella Peter Weinberg Partners, is an advisory and asset-management firm based in New York and London.

Peter Weinberg is a founding partner and chief executive officer of the firm.

Since co-founding the firm in 2006, Peter Weinberg has advised clients on over $800 billion of transactions.

Peter Weinberg is a frequent commentator on CNBC and Bloomberg TV and quoted expert on a range of topics, including: current trends and the future of mergers and acquisitions, shareholder activism, and financial markets and financial institutions in general.

Peter Weinberg is a regular Op-Ed contributor to The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, and The Sunday Times.

Peter Weinberg has commented on the global economy at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

Peter Weinberg is on the Boards of Overseers at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and Columbia University Medical School.

Peter Weinberg is a Founding Trustee of King's Academy in Jordan.

Peter Weinberg is a member of the advisory board of the Kravis Leadership Institute and is on the Harvard University Global Advisory Council.

In 2013, he and his wife Deborah L Weinberg founded the Weinberg Family Cerebral Palsy Center at Columbia University.

Peter Weinberg previously was on the board of Deerfield Academy and the Harvard Business School Deans Advisory Board.

Peter Weinberg is on the executive committee for the Business Higher Education Forum, a group of business leaders and university presidents working to better align higher education curriculum with workforce needs.

Peter Weinberg is a dual citizen of the United States and the UK.

The Peter Weinberg family played a prominent and storied role at Goldman Sachs since the early 1900s.

Peter Weinberg's mother, Elizabeth Houghton, is a member of the Houghton family who founded Corning Glass Works in 1851, now called Corning Inc She is the sister of Amory Houghton, Jr.