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Joel Peterson is the Founding Partner of Peterson Partners, LP, a private equity firm focused on small-to-medium-sized growth companies. Mr. Peterson as been a lecturer at the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University since 1992 where he has taught courses in real estate investment, entrepreneurship and leadership. Mr. Peterson is currently the Lead Director at JetBlue Airways and at Franklin Covey. He has served as a director at Asurion, the Dallas Market Center, Texas Commerce Bank (Dallas) and on a number of other boards, including the Advisory Board at the GSB and on the President’s Council at his alma mater. He is the former National Managing Partner of Trammell Crow Company where he also was its CFO for 10 years and CEO of Trammell Crow Residential for a brief stint in the mid 1980’s. He holds an MBA from the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration and a Bachelor of Science from Brigham Young University. He and his wife, Diana, have been married for 34 years and have 7 children and 8 grandchildren.

Since 1992, Joel Peterson has taught courses in real estate, entrepreneurship, and leadership at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University. Peterson’s course focus is presently on the effective management and leadership of growing businesses. His abiding interest, however, is in students and the important decisions they will make in the business world and in their personal lives.