David Peters

Chief Financial Officer at Cerba Research

Haarlem, North Holland, Netherlands

About

CFO with 20+ years of international experience across finance, tax, legal, procurement, and HR. Translating business ambition into financial reality while ensuring governance and financial discipline. Drives profitability and operational excellence in complex, high-impact environments. Builds and develops teams that perform under pressure, with a hands-on coaching style and a focus on culture, ownership, and trust. Involved in multiple funding rounds and M&A from due diligence to integration. Track record of value creation in both privately held and investor-backed organizations, combining financial rigor with a low-ego, collaborative leadership style that works across cultures and geographies.

Experience

  • Chief Financial Officer at Cerba Research
    Nov 2022 - Present · 3 yrs 8 mos

    Cerba Research provides the highest quality specialized laboratory and diagnostic solutions while leveraging patient data and scientific insight to shape and advance clinical trials projects. With additional access through a global network of leading, specialty laboratories, Cerba supports global biotech, pharma, and IVD organizations to improve the lives of patients around the world.

  • Vice President Head of Finance Europe at Coyote Logistics
    Oct 2019 - Apr 2022 · 2 yrs 7 mos

    Coyote Logistics is a leading global third-party logistics provider that matches more than 10,000 shipments every day. Founded in 2006, Coyote was created with one goal in mind: create a better service experience in the transportation industry. The company has over 20 years experience in the European road freight market. In 2015 Coyote Logistics was acquired by UPS.

  • CFO at Land Life Company
    Mar 2018 - Sep 2019 · 1 yr 7 mos

    Land Life Company is a technology-driven reforestation company that plants trees at scale, offering corporations and organisations a sustainable and transparent way to take climate action and compensate carbon emissions through nature restoration.

  • CFO at Sensoterra
    Mar 2018 - Sep 2019 · 1 yr 7 mos

    Sensoterra develops wireless soil and water optimization solutions, to help growers effectively irrigate plants and crops. We envision a balance between water and soil, and work to achieve this by improving land health and grower profitability. Grow more, waste less.

  • Head of Finance & Analytics at Zamro
    Mar 2016 - Feb 2018 · 2 yrs

    Corporate backed European e-commerce platform for industrial supplies (machine parts and tools). Zamro aims to make its professional customers' life easier, by providing them with superior ease of use in finding what they need and reliable delivery, combined with excellent customer service and in-depth product knowledge. Zamro is part of ERIKS and backed by SHV.