Peter Eason left investment banking in 2016 to help turn around a struggling healthcare startup. It worked.
At Augmedix, he joined as VP of Finance and implemented a company-wide rationalization strategy that built a viable operating model for scale. The company transitioned to an international service footprint, reinvested in San Francisco-based R&D, and launched targeted sales initiatives that landed new business. In 2018, he was tapped to lead Operations, managing a team of 1,200 across the US, India, and Bangladesh delivering real-time medical documentation to more than 600 doctors, 18 hours a day, seven days a week. Before that, he spent years at J.P. Morgan providing strategic advisory and capital raising for mid-cap companies, executing more than 30 deals worth over $15 billion across healthcare, consumer, retail, technology, and industrial sectors.
At Ferrum, Peter oversees Finance and Operations and manages relationships with third-party AI model developers through implementation and ongoing customer support. He has raised more than $100 million in venture capital and debt across Augmedix and Ferrum, and he has watched the Ferrum thesis play out exactly as planned: an explosion of AI use cases, heavy external investment into model developers, and a clear gap in deployment that Ferrum solves for health systems.
The company started slow with safety net workflow support, added real-time capabilities in 2020, scaled across use cases, wrapped analytics around everything, and is now rapidly expanding. His vision for the next 12 to 24 months is simple: more health systems need to experience what Ferrum's existing customers already know. The platform works, the technology stack is best in class, and the unprecedented visibility into AI model performance is unlocking a long list of new features and models that customers are actively requesting.
Peter holds a degree in Finance and Accounting from Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business, where he graduated with honors.
Outside of work, he loves learning about wine (he got married in Sonoma), mowing the lawn, chasing three young kids around town, and traveling to places with great outdoor activities like US National Parks, Costa Rica, and New Zealand. He has driven cross country twice, logging more than 10,000 miles across the two trips.
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