Early Life
Peter Grauer was born in 1946. He graduated from the
University of North CarolinaChartered in 1789, the University of North Carolina was one of the first public universities in the United States and the only one to graduate students in the eighteenth century...
in 1968 with a degree in English, and
Harvard UniversityHarvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
Graduate School of Business Program for Management Development in 1975.
Career
Grauer was a Managing Director of
Donaldson, Lufkin & JenretteDonaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette or DLJ is a defunct U.S. investment bank founded by William H. Donaldson, Richard Jenrette and Dan Lufkin in 1959. Its businesses included securities underwriting; sales and trading; investment and merchant banking; financial advisory services; investment research;...
from 1992 to 2000 when DLJ was acquired by
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. He served as a Managing Director and Senior Partner of CSFB Private Equity until March 2002. He is also a founder of
DLJ Merchant Banking PartnersDLJ Merchant Banking Partners is a private equity investment firm focused on leveraged buyout transactions. The firm is currently an affiliate of Credit Suisse and traces its roots to Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, the investment bank acquired by Credit Suisse First Boston in 2000...
and DLJ Investment Partners.
Bloomberg
Grauer met
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in the late 1980s when both men were chauffeuring their daughters to equestrian shows.
By 1996, he became a member of the
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board of directors and was named Chairman of the Board in March 2001, succeeding Michael R. Bloomberg. He joined the firm full-time in his executive capacities in March 2002. In 2009, he was quoted as saying that he would like Bloomberg to become, "the most influential source of news for the financial and business community."
DaVita
Grauer is the lead director of DaVita, Inc. a Colorado-based healthcare company. He has been with DaVita since 1994.
Charity Work
He is President of the Board of Trustees of the Inner City Scholarship Fund in New York City, Chairman Emeritus of the Board of Directors of The Big Apple Circus and Chairman of the External Advisory Board of the Undergraduate Honors Program and the Johnson Center for Undergraduate Excellence at the
University of North CarolinaChartered in 1789, the University of North Carolina was one of the first public universities in the United States and the only one to graduate students in the eighteenth century...
at Chapel Hill.
Awards and Honors
Grauer is a recipient of the Papal Order of Merit.