Peter Lee has served as President and Chief Operating Officer of Leafly since May 2024 and has served as a member of the Board since February 2022. Previously, he served as President, Chief Financial Officer, Secretary, and a member of the board of directors of Merida Merger Corp. I from 2019 until its merger with Leafly in 2022. He has over 20 years of experience as an investment professional in both public markets and public equity. Since April 2018, he has been an independent investor and consultant. From 2011 to 2018, he co-founded and was a Managing Partner at Sentinel Rock Capital, LLC, a long/short equity oriented hedge fund. Prior to this, from 2009 to 2011, he was an Analyst and a Partner at Spring Point Capital, a long/short equity oriented hedge fund. Prior to this, he worked for The Blackstone Group, Tiger Management, J.H. Whitney & Company and Capital Z Partners.
Mr. Lee began his career as an analyst at Morgan Stanley Capital Partners, the private equity investment fund of Morgan Stanley. Mr. Lee received a B.S. in Business Administration from the University of California, Berkeley Haas School of Business and an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business.