Peter J. Troob
Co-Founder Mr. Troob co-founded Troob Capital Management LLC in 2002. He leads TCM’s opportunistic investment strategy providing capital solutions across asset classes, capital structures, industries and geographies in both liquid and illiquid investments. His responsibilities include identifying, evaluating, structuring and managing investments as well as portfolios. Mr. Troob has extensive experience investing in growth opportunities as well as deep value, distressed, restructurings, and illiquid situations. In addition, Mr. Troob has been responsible for investing the capital of his family office across asset classes including private equity and debt, real estate, venture capital and special situations.
Prior to founding TCM, Mr. Troob was a Principal at Everest Capital, a global hedge fund, where he was focused on the Everest Capital Senior Debt L.P. and concentrated on distressed securities, capital structure arbitrage and special situations. Prior to joining Everest, Mr. Troob was a Partner at Contrarian Capital Management LLC, a distressed debt and special situation hedge fund, where he was responsible for all aspects of the investment process with active involvement in driving value-creating events. He also worked in the investment banking departments of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, Kidder Peabody and The Geneva Companies, engaging in mergers and acquisitions and corporate finance transactions. Mr. Troob is a published author of Monkey Business: Swinging Through the Wall Street Jungle. He received a B.A. and graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Duke University in 1991, and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School in 1995.