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Peterson began his financial career with Dow Jones & Co., Inc., first for 12 years as a national correspondent and then as the author of Dow Jones' Investing for Pleasure and Profit. He has held management positions with NYSE, AMEX and NASDAQ companies. He has been involved in the founding, financing and management of small cap companies involved in insurance marketing, insurance brokerage, toxic remediation, chemical processing, healthcare and securities analysis.
Peterson's Wall Street career included positions at L.F. Rothschild Unterberg Towbin, Gilford Securities, Inc., and GFP Communications, Inc. He was a lecturer for three years at the University of Kansas School of Journalism, from which he was graduated with Distinction. He was a teammate of Wilt Chamberlain's on the Jayhawk basketball team | 