Peter Moustakerski - Seeing Around Corners

Phronesis: Practical Wisdom for Leaders with Scott Allen

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Peter Moustakerski is CEO of Family Office Exchange (FOX), the premier resource for families managing private enterprises and family wealth across generations. For over 30 years, FOX has been recognized as the industry’s most exclusive, innovative, and influential community for peer networking and learning, and has provided independent insights, expert guidance, and practical solutions to complex problems related to family transitions and family wealth.​
Peter has spent more than 25 years as a C-level strategist and executive in various industries, including wealth management, capital markets, and technology. He is a former family office executive and FOX member, management consultant, and entrepreneur. He has served as a strategy, innovation, and growth leader for several private and public companies and founded two start-ups in New York City and China.​
Before joining FOX, Peter served as Chief Operating Officer of the family office of the founder of Bridgewater Associates, where he worked closely with the principal family members to envision and oversee the redesign of the family office strategy and day-to-day operations to better serve the family's evolving needs. Peter holds an MBA from Columbia Business School and a BS in Computer Science and Engineering from Zhejiang University in China, and is proficient in Mandarin, Russian, and Bulgarian.​
Before that, Peter was a management consultant at Booz Allen Hamilton, advising many of the world’s top C-suite leaders, and a strategy executive at UBS, leading all growth and transformation initiatives for the bank’s wealth management organization.​
Most recently, Peter was Chief Strategy Officer of News America Marketing, a former News Corp. subsidiary, where he built and led the Corporate Strategy and M&A function and led the company’s successful carve-out and sale to a private equity sponsor.

Two Quotes From This Episode

• "At the end of the day, if you think about time as your most valuable asset, the ultimate capital, the ultimate equalizer for all of us is time, and complexity is the enemy of time. It just eats up time and other resources."
• “At FOX, we consider it a core value and a major part of our mission to help our members—and the entire industry—see around corners, especially when significant change is afoot.”

Resources Mentioned in This Episode

• Book - The Fourth Turning is Here by Howe
• Book - Principles for Dealing with The Changing World Order by Dalio
• Book - Thinking Fast and Slow by Kahneman
  

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1. Navigating Change and Building Community (00:00:00)

2. Maximizing Family Capital for Impact (00:15:06)

3. Managing Complexity and Future Cycles (00:30:18)

4. Leading in the Family Context (00:41:12)