Peter Campbell

Founder and Managing Partner

About Peter

Peter has over 20 years of experience successfully investing in, and helping drive the scaling of, high-growth education, media, and information services firms. Since the founding of EGP in 2011, Peter has focused on refining the EGP strategy and building out the ideal team to execute that strategy. EGP is a now a well-recognized leader in supporting and building education and human development companies. 

Prior to EGP, Peter began his career by providing senior and subordinated debt financing for leading high-growth media and information services firms at the Bank of New England, after which he joined Burr, Egan, and Deleage, the path-breaking growth equity firm focused on growth companies in the media and content services sectors. Peter worked as a senior operating executive for several years before he was named a Partner at Generation Partners, a $345 million growth equity firm, where he focused on the education sector for over 10 years.

In addition to Peter’s investing experience, he also served for 13 years on the Board of Directors for Echoing Green, which has provided seed funding to over 600 social entrepreneurs with bold ideas for organizations to drive social change. Peter has served as a Trustee of Computers for Youth, an organization dedicated to placing refurbished computers in the homes of low-income youths. 

Portfolio Companies:

  • BetterManager
  • Cappfinity
  • Emtrain
  • eScholar
  • Fuse Universal
  • Human Capital Institute
  • Sightlines
  • The Gordian Group
  • Tiger 21
  • Vistage
M.B.A. - Harvard Business School
B.A. - Middlebury College