Peter grew up in Menlo Park, and graduated from La Entrada Middle School and Woodside High School.  He received his BA degree in Economics, magna cum laude, from Harvard University and his MBA from Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business.

He is the Bay Area Partnership Director for Business Executives for National Security (BENS), a non-partisan, nationwide organization that builds public-private partnerships between businesses and emergency management agencies to improve disaster response, community resiliency, and homeland security.

He was previously the Chief Financial Officer of a high-tech company, and worked in corporate finance for Morgan Stanley and other investment firms in New York and San Francisco.  He previously served on the Board of Directors for the Mid-Peninsula Water District.

He is a proud graduate of the Fire District’s Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) training program in 2005.  He lives in Menlo Park with his wife and two children.

Peter Ohtaki serves as the Board’s liaison to the City of Menlo Park, and is on the Finance Committee for the Fire District.

He has served on the Board since 2007.