Peter Sterling

Head of Specialty Finance & General Partner at Outpost Ventures, Neuberger Berman

Peter Sterling, Managing Director, is the Head and Founding member of Neuberger’s Specialty Finance platform and a member of its Investment Committee. The platform focuses on asset based finance as well as growth lending. Under Peter’s tenure, the group has expanded its global footprint across the investor community. The group’s last closed-end fund vintage was in April 2025 at $1.65 billion. Additionally, Peter leads Outpost Ventures which is the venture capital platform within Neuberger.

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.

Before joining Coastland, Peter served as a Portfolio Manager KBC Alternative Investment Management Ltd., a multi-strategy asset manager with several billion dollars under management, and Marin Capital. During his tenure, Peter co-managed a large credit portfolio focused on capital structure arbitrage. Previous to that, Peter was hired into D.E. Shaw’s Financial Products group which was subsequently sold to KBC Bank, managing their U.S. convertible bond arbitrage portfolio. Peter began his career trading equity derivatives for Gateway Partners on the floors of the American and Philadelphia Stock Exchanges.

Peter holds a B.A. with a dual major in Economics and Psychology from Cornell University.

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