Managing Partner

Jim Peet has over 30 years of international investing and fund experience. He heads Fairfield Investments, providing innovative financial solutions in project finance, specialty debt solutions and fractional CFO services. Jim has expanded Fairfield’s current focus on green energy finance to include partnering with QPQ International. He is currently actively engaged in projects with a combined value exceeding $1 billion.

Jim started his career working at the consulting firms Bain & Company and McKinsey & Company, then joined a McKinsey alum investing money for George Soros. His $143M of telecom-related investments while at Soros were valued at $510M when he was recruited to start the Lehman Brothers Communications Fund.  He led the fundraising that brought in $800 million, and ran the fund through the tech downturn of 2000-2002, ultimately returning most of the capital to investors despite a very adverse investing environment.  He co-founded a broker dealer (Tangent Capital) and did specialty debt investing before expanding to project finance and fractional CFO activities.

Jim has a degree in engineering and math / economics from Dartmouth, and an MBA from the Harvard Business School where he was a Baker Scholar (top 5%). He is registered with FINRA (Series 7, 24, and 63) and holds a CPA license.

Jim values building relationships, and welcomes the opportunity to connect and discuss ideas, opportunities, or investment needs.