Farah Khan

Mr. Peter Sugarman serves as Partner and Chief Operating Officer at JRJ Group. Mr. Sugarman serves as Chairman at Optimum Finance and Board Member at iProov. He also served as Board Member at ETX Capital. He brings approximately 30 years of the financial services industry and transactional experience to JRJ Group. A tax, regulatory policy and capital structure expert, he is closely involved in the development of financial control structures and processes at portfolio companies, regulatory and tax strategy, as well as compliance issues. Peter has had a broad career background spanning fields of corporate finance, tax, accounting, mergers and acquisitions structuring and relationship banking. Prior to joining JRJ Group in November 2008, he was employed by Lehman Brothers for more than 7 years, as Head of Principal Investing in the Insurance Advisory Group (2007 - 2008) and as Global Head of the Strategic Transactions Group (2004 - 2007). Peter joined Lehman Brothers in 2001 as the European Head of the Financial Engineering Group, a position he held until 2004. Prior to Lehman Brothers, he held various positions at Rabobank and JP Morgan, focussing on structured transactions, primarily within the financial services sector. Peter holds BA and MA degrees in History and Law from Cambridge University. He serves as a non-executive director of Marex Spectron.