Ms. Peterson, who has over 23 years of real estate and capital raising experience, serves as a Managing Partner and Chief Operating Officer. Prior to joining Accord, she was Director of Capital Markets for Pacific Urban Residential, a multifamily investor and operator focused on urban West Coast markets. Prior to that, she was a Senior Vice President with Macquarie Capital’s Real Estate Private Capital Markets Group. Prior to that, Ms. Peterson was a founding member and Senior Vice President at Presidio Partners LLC.  Previously, she was a member of the real estate investment banking group at Lehman Brothers, as well as the firm’s healthcare and media & telecom investment banking teams and its municipal finance group. Ms. Peterson has also served as Consultant to the International Finance Corporation (World Bank) in Beijing, China.
Ms. Peterson received her Master of Business Administration degree from the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University and her Bachelor of Arts degree in the Political Economy of Industrial Societies from the University of California, Berkeley (summa cum laude). She is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Stanford Real Estate Council (SREC), Stanford Professionals in Real Estate (SPIRE) and Pension Real Estate Association (PREA).  She serves on the San Francisco Board of Women in Real Estate (WIRE), is Board Vice President of Filipinos in Institutional Real Estate (FIIRE) and sits on the Advisory Board of Dermot Partners GP, LLC.