Peter Ehmke, Director/Partner at Edgar, Dunn Company

Peter's Bio:

Peter is located in the San Francisco office. He combines experience as a strategy consultant for Edgar, Dunn & Company in Europe with extensive hands-on experience as a senior executive in the payment industry. He has managed the turnaround/restructuring and sale of financial businesses as well as the design and implementation of country, product and regional strategies. At EDC Peter has worked with banks, payment schemes and start-ups in the US and Europe around Faster Payments and Payments Innovation Strategy. He has advised on the creation of a cross border JV in commercial cards, assisted start-ups in finding potential investors and advised on business models and go-to-market strategy.

Before re-joining EDC in San Francisco Peter worked for MasterCard International, London, as Head of Strategy Europe where he was responsible for building out European and country strategy to inform investment decisions, building competitor intelligence and for creating/managing the European M&A target identification process. Before relocating to London, he was Managing Director for MasterCard’s German market operations.

Prior to this, Peter managed the credit card business of Royal Bank of Scotland in Germany and acquired deep retail banking experience as CEO of Santander Direkt Bank. Before entering the consumer space Peter worked as an international commercial and wholesale banker in London, Singapore, Zurich and Paris in diverse management roles in sales, product management, wholesale payments, treasury and trade finance.

Peter holds a BA + MA from Durham University in Political Science and a Diploma in Finance from the Institute of Bankers, London.