Peter Halloran, Founder & CEO, launched Pharos in 1997 with initial capital from Credit Suisse and Soros Fund Management.
Mr. Halloran's experience spans structuring financial investments, hedge fund and private equity investing, and investment banking. He founded Pharos Energy Ltd. in 2011 to trade physical oil and crude products. Earlier, as Executive Chairman and shareholder of Aton Capital Group, which was later sold to UniCredit for $424 million, he helped transform the firm into a leading Moscow investment bank where he arranged the region's first domestic IPO.
Mr. Halloran has managed three investment funds at Pharos, earning the Hedge Fund Manager of the Year award from Hedge Funds World in 2010.
Prior to Pharos, Mr. Halloran built Credit Suisse's brokerage businesses in Russia and the CIS, managing a $400 million proprietary trading account, building a dominant market position in privatization vouchers, and bidding on $2 billion in privatizations. From 1985–1994, he held senior roles at CS First Boston, Salomon Brothers, and Morgan Grenfell in New York, with a focus on institutional equities, structured products, and emerging-markets debt. He is a graduate of Yale University (BA, 1984).