Peter Comisar
Vice Chairman, Investment Banking, Guggenheim Partners
Peter Comisar is vice chairman and head of West Coast Investment Banking for Guggenheim Partners. He joined Guggenheim in 2009 as vice chairman of the securities business and head of West Coast Investment Banking. Prior to Guggenheim, Comisar spent 20 years at Goldman Sachs, where he held various senior positions in the Investment Banking Division as a partner managing director. At Goldman Sachs, he focused predominantly on the consumer and retail industry sectors. Comisar spent a decade in the firm's corporate finance, capital markets and mergers & acquisitions groups in New York and was a key member of the West Coast Investment Banking leadership after relocating to Los Angeles in 2000. With more than two decades of Wall Street experience, Comisar has advised a variety of domestic and international clients with mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, spinoffs/split-offs, restructurings, recapitalizations, leveraged buyouts, takeover defense, proxy contests and capital raising.
Global Conference 2013
Former Prime Minister Tony Blair, philanthropist Bill Gates and Strive Masiyiwa of Econet Wireless discuss advancing prosperity in Africa.