Peter Finn is cofounder of the Catskill Mountain Foundation, which he and his wife Sarah started in 1998, as well as the founder and CEO of FINN Partners, a public relations and integrated marketing agency he launched in 2011. Peter started his career in 1977 at Research & Forecasts, a research company owned by Ruder Finn, before moving into a senior financial management position in 1984. Peter was Co-CEO and a 25 percent owner of Ruder Finn before leaving the com-pany to start FINN Partners. Peter spent most of his career working long hours in his New York City cor-porate office before discovering during the pandemic that he could run both FINN Partners and the Catskill Mountain Foundation just as effectively from his office in Hunter, New York, with its wonderful views of the surrounding mountains. He now splits his time between Hunter and New York City, though Hunter is his pri-mary base. Peter is usually at his computer in his Hunter office by seven a.m. eve-ry day, but he loves his work and the long days and would not have it any other way.

Peter travels regularly to visit FINN Partners' 36 offices around the world. While in Hunter, he attends performances presented by the Catskill Mountain Foundation almost every weekend, and as many of the films presented each week by the foundation as he can, though not as many as he would like. Peter has a BA from Brown University, where he met his wife Sarah during his freshman year and majored in literature. He has a masters degree in compar-ative literature from Columbia University and a treasured library of over 3,000 books at his home in Hunter. Much of his weekend time in Hunter is spent im-mersed in literature-the books in his library that he has yet to read, the many he would love to reread and the hundreds of books on his to-be-read list that he plans to add to his library.