Mr. Peters is Managing Director of Global Institutional Distribution at Columbia Management Investment Advisers, LLC. Prior positions include senior managing director and head of international business at Putnam Investments and business analyst and principal at McKinsey & Company. Mr. Peters received a BA in economics from Princeton University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. He is an avid international birder who has played major roles with Massachusetts Audubon Society and the Manomet Center for Conservation Science.