Biographical Profile |
Peter Sidebottom grew up in Bishop, California, a small town on the eastern side of the Sierra Nevada. Both of his parents were teachers. He earned his BA in public policy from Stanford University in 1985 and an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1988. In 1985-1986, Sidebottom served as a John Gardner Public Service Fellow in the office of Mayor Henry Cisneros in San Antonio, Texas. His assignments included supervising the city’s Mexico Earthquake Relief Effort, drafting a grant proposal for an institute to promote growth among minority-owned small businesses, and coordinating a regional development conference for South Texas and the border region that was attended by over 700 local officials. After his fellowship, Sidebottom focused on public and private roles that centered the intersection of education, economic development, and financial access. Upon earning his MBA from Harvard, he worked as assistant director of government relations in the Office of Public Affairs at Stanford for three years. In 1991, he joined McKinsey & Company where he worked for twelve years and was a partner in the San Francisco and Charlotte, North Carolina, offices, as well as working internationally in Mumbai and Sydney. He subsequently spent five years leading the finance division as an Executive Vice President at Wachovia in Charlotte, and then moved to the greater New York City area where he was Executive Vice President of product and marketing at TD Ameritrade from 2009 to 2012; senior partner and advisor at Bain & Company from 2012 to 2014; partner at PwC/Strategy& from 2015 to 2017; board of trustees member for Van Eck Global since 2012; and leader of the North American Banking and Capital Markets Strategy Practice for Accenture beginning in May of 2017.Sidebottom has decades of volunteer experience in community development and social service as well as in K-12 and higher education. His service includes work for Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools and candidate for School Board (2004), the Charlotte Chamber of Commerce executive board, founding the Teach for America Bay Area advisory board, the Institute for Social Capital board of directors at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte, and the community works board for United Way of Central Carolinas. In 2008, he organized Iowa caucuses for President Obama in 2008.A founding member of the John Gardner Fellowship Association (JGFA), Sidebottom remains active in supporting the mission of the fellowship and preserving John Gardner’s legacy. It was his introduction of former White House Fellow Rick Stamberger to Gardner in 1999 that led to the making of the PBS documentary “John Gardner: Uncommon American,” and in 2014, he was involved in kicking off JGFA’s 30th anniversary fundraising drive for the John Gardner Fellowship.
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