Senior Principal, CAI
New York, NY

Peter M. Gottsegen is a partner of CAI Partners, a private equity firm with offices in New York, Toronto and Montreal, which he helped to found in 1989. Prior to that, he was a general partner of Salomon Brothers in charge of the firm's International Investment Banking operations. In that capacity, he was responsible for all of Salomon's corporate finance activities outside the U.S. Prior to joining Salomon Brothers in 1974, Mr. Gottsegen was Vice President in the corporate finance department of Kuhn Loeb & Co.

Mr. Gottsegen is a former director of Aster-Cephac SA, IVAX Corporation, Sunquest Vacations Limited, Zalev Metals Inc. and Zenith Laboratories Inc. and currently serves as a director of Country Style Food Services Inc. and MIST Inc. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and Vice Chairman of the Milbank Memorial Fund. He has also been Chairman of the Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts and a Trustee of the Nature Conservancy of New York State. Mr. Gottsegen received an M.B.A. from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a B.S. from Georgetown University. Mr. Gottsegen was elected to the Board of Trustees of the Institute of International Education in January 2002.