Scott Peters is a co-founder and Managing Partner of Growth Catalyst Partners (“GCP”), a middle market private equity firm with over $1 billion in AUM and focused on investing in information, marketing and tech-enabled services businesses. With combined experience of more than 40 years investing in and managing over 250 mergers and acquisitions in its target sectors, GCP’s founders offer unique strategic expertise to help their portfolio companies and limited partners create extraordinary value. By partnering with existing management teams, GCP primarily targets investments in companies and sectors with strong growth potential through both organic initiatives as well as strategic acquisitions.
Before GCP, Scott was Co-President of JEGI and CEO of JEGI Capital LLC, a registered broker dealer. Mr. Peters played an instrumental role in building JEGI into one of the top middle-market investment banks. JEGI led the Bloomberg M&A league tables in its core sectors between 2012 and 2016. Mr. Peters sourced and managed 114 transactions with JEGI and was known as an innovative, strategic, and effective banker in his sectors.
Mr. Peters offers a differentiated blend of traditional investment banking and direct operating experience, including serving as co-founder of AngelSociety, an information, communications, and transaction company serving the early-stage investing or angel investing market. Prior to JEGI, Mr. Peters was with Veronis, Suhler Stevenson, where he served as Director of Research and later Director of Business Development by helping to create the deal origination platform for the investment bank and private equity fund.
Activities & Affiliations
- Opus Agency, Board of Directors
- Shift Paradigm, Board of Directors
- CyberRisk Alliance, Board of Directors
- TrueFire Studio, Board of Directors
- Government Executive, Board of Directors
- Equine Network, Board of Directors
- Silver Assist, Board of Directors
- Journey, Board of Directors
- Sigma7, Board of Directors
- Dimension Studio, Board of Directors
- Data Society Group, Board of Directors
- Tamer Center for Social Enterprise at Columbia Business School, Advisory Board