Peter Early is Head of Business Development of 1Round Table Partners (1RT), the largest growth equity investor focused exclusively on the blockchain space.
Prior to 1RT, he served on the board of directors and lead all aspects of business development and strategy from 2019 to 2024 for Exos Financial, a tech-enabled institutional bank he co-founded with Brady Dougan, the former CEO of Credit Suisse, and Joe Squeri, the former CTO of Citadel. Mr. Early led the SPAC business at Exos where he advised multiple companies on their SPAC mergers and multiple sponsor teams on their SPAC IPOs. He also devised and oversaw an investment strategy that invested roughly $200m in an actively managed portfolio of listed SPACs.
Prior to Exos, Mr. Early served in leadership roles at Sofi, Guggenheim Partners, and Wynn Resorts and worked in trading at Bankers Trust and Tiger Management. Additionally, he helped launch three Tiger-Cub hedge funds as either the CEO/CIO or President.
Mr. Early earned a BS in electrical engineering and economics from Yale University in 1991.
