Peake has worked for Bankers Trust, Natwest Capital Markets and Charterhouse Bank and, most recently, Financial Security Assurance. The firm has also added Aleksander Marcin Ferenc to the team in a newly created role as assistant director responsible for originating and executing new mezzanine investments in the Central and Eastern European market. From May 1999 to the end of 2006, he was an investment director at Baring Private Equity Partners managing the €86m Baring Central European Fund.