Peter Sterling, Managing Director, is Head of Neuberger Berman’s Specialty Finance team. Prior to joining the firm in 2018, Peter served as President of Coastland Capital, an asset manager within the relative value and specialty finance strategies. Peter served as the Portfolio Manager for Coastland’s specialty finance vehicle which invested across consumer and small business loans/receivables with an emphasis on the Fintech space. The group underwrote and purchased several hundred million dollars of varying assets across the whole loan, receivable, and securitized ABS markets. Prior to joining Coastland, Peter underwrote and purchased non-performing loan investments within the consumer and commercial credit card industries. From 2001-2005, Peter served as a Portfolio Manager focusing on credit arbitrage strategies at Marin Capital and previously at KBC Alternative Investment Management Ltd., a multi-strategy asset manager with several billion dollars under management. During his tenure, Peter co-managed a large credit portfolio large focused on capital structure arbitrage. Previous to that, Peter was initially hired into D.E. Shaw’s Financial Products group which was subsequently sold to KBC Bank, managing their U.S. convertible bond arbitrage portfolio. Prior to that, Peter traded equity derivatives for Gateway Partners on the floors of the American and Philadelphia Stock Exchanges. Peter received a BA with a dual major in Economics and Psychology from Cornell University.