Peter Simon is a member of Spencer Stuart's North American Financial Services and Financial Officer practices and is based in Toronto. He formerly was a principal (partner) with McKinsey & Company in Toronto and Pittsburgh, with additional leadership experiences in Amsterdam, New York and Hong Kong. At McKinsey, he served financial institutions and industrial clients on strategy, financial performance and corporate finance issues. Peter left the firm to co-found FlatIron Information Services, a corporate performance data and services company in Toronto that had numerous well-known Canadian and U.S. corporations, financial institutions and private equity firms as clients. At Spencer Stuart, Peter leads the firm's Canadian financial services efforts, including search assignments for pension funds, asset managers, private equity sponsors and insurance companies.
Prior to McKinsey, Peter worked in both Toronto and New York with The First Boston Corporation, where he held associate and financial analyst roles in the investment banking and M&A practices.
Peter holds an M.B.A. from The Amos Tuck School of Business Administration at Dartmouth College, with high distinction, and an honors bachelor of arts degree in business, also with distinction, from the University of Western Ontario.