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Peter De Svastich

Peter de Svastich is a Managing Director of The GEM Group and a Director and Manager of several Gem subsidiaries. He is responsible for the overall operations of GEM in Latin America, Mexico and Southern Europe and interfaces with GEM entities worldwide in matters related to fund-raising, private placement opportunities, and legal and regulatory issues. Prior to joining GEM, he worked as a commercial and investment banker in Brazil, Argentina and France. He has been the CFO/COO/CCO for a number of hedge funds and funds of funds, most recently with Alpha Equity Management, where he helped sell a 25% equity stake to SunTrust Bank N.A. of Atlanta, Georgia. He served as President of Delegated Management S.A., a fund of funds and asset allocator in Geneva, Switzerland. He founded and ran WestHem International Group for 15 years, a boutique investment and asset management firm that also had a broker/dealer in New York. Prior to that he ran the International Division of one of Brazil’s top five banks in the 1970’s/1980’s and spearheaded its international expansion. He has formed joint-ventures in banking and alternative investments with N.M. Rothschild & Sons (Madrid), Banco Internacional y de Comercio Exterior (Santiago), Banque Francaise de Commerce Exterieur (BFCE) (Montevideo), and BNP (Rio de Janeiro). Peter received a B.A. cum laude from Princeton University, an LLB and JD from the Yale Law School, and a Latin American Teaching Fellowship from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.

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