About

Pieter Dorsman is a Dutchman currently living in Vancouver where he runs his own consulting firm, Redpeaks Management Inc. that advises early stage technology companies on their financing and business strategies. Prior to this he held a number of senior positions at UBS in Hong Kong where he was responsible for project and corporate finance mandates in Asia, primarily in Indonesia, China and Thailand. He joined UBS in 1994 after an attachment to Barclays Bank's structured finance team in Hong Kong. Before moving to Hong Kong he lived and worked in London where he started his career at Barclays. Pieter obtained a Master's degree in Economic and Social History at the Erasmus Universiteit in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

In early 2003 Pieter launched Peaktalk, a weblog about international politics and economics. Some of Peaktalk's posts have appeared in the National Post, one of Canada's largest newspapers and more recently Pieter's columns have appeared on Pajamas Media. Pieter has also appeared on a number of radio shows in the US and Canada to talk about European news and developments.

July 2007 - Photo taken during the annual trip to The Netherlands. Dark skies, flat farmland and a bike: as Dutch as it gets.