Management/Senior Advisors

Peter N. Schaffer

Peter is a Partner at Carl Marks Advisory Group LLC and previously was a Managing Director at Guiliani Capital Advisors in New York and is an expert in the retail and consumer products industry. He has more than 25 years of retail and consumer industry experience including four years as the global industry leader for retail & consumer products investment banking at Ernst & Young Corporate Finance and prior to that was a Senior Analyst at DLJ covering numerous retail and consumer stocks. Before that, Peter was at Dillon Read as a Senior research analyst.

Peter has extensive retail industry management experience as a senior executive at both Bloomingdale's and Macy's with responsibility in areas such as merchandising, store operations to international buying for several types of goods.

Mr. Schaeffer has served on the board of advisors of several private retailers and is considered an expert in the field by the media. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in Retail Management and Marketing from Drexel University.