Mr. Petersen is the Chief Technology Officer and the Chief Cybersecurity Officer at Causeway Capital Management LLC and has been with the firm since its inception in June 2001.
From 1997 to 2001, Mr. Petersen was the Senior Engineer at the Hotchkis & Wiley division of Merrill Lynch Investment Managers (HW-MLIM) where he was responsible for managing data center operations and overall infrastructure. Prior to that, Mr. Petersen held various development and engineering roles at technology firms in Silicon Valley including Applied Materials, Oracle, Sun Microsystems, and SCO Unix.
He holds executive certificates from Johns Hopkins in Data Science, from MIT in Artificial Intelligence Strategy, and from Pepperdine in Financial Technology. Additionally, Mr. Petersen has completed the CTO program at Wharton and the Business Analytics Program at Harvard. He studied philosophy at North Carolina Wesleyan University and holds professional certificates from Microsoft, CISCO, Oracle, IBM, and 3Com.