Peter M. Halloran is the founder and CEO of Pharos Financial Group, an investment firm active in global markets since 1997.
The firm was established with initial investment capital from Credit Suisse and Soros Fund Management.
[7] In early 1994 he acquired nearly 10% of all outstanding privatization vouchers[8] and, in 1995, Halloran pioneered the first foreign investments into Russian treasury bills (GKO's) and restricted shares of energy giant Gazprom.
[10] Prior to establishing Pharos, Halloran built and managed the CIS brokerage and proprietary trading businesses of Credit Suisse in Moscow.
Halloran is the grandson of Dr. Orvan W. Hess who was a noted U.S. physician and a recipient of the American Medical Association's Scientific Achievement Award for pioneering the development of the fetal heart monitor and his earlier work helping to introduce penicillin to the U.S. His mother, Dr. Katherine Hess Halloran, is a published research physician who conducted early genetic research into the chromosomal cause of Down Syndrome.