Greg Peters (businessman)

Greg Peters is an American businessman and the Co-CEO of Netflix, Inc.

Family background
Peters is the grandson of William Peters, a journalist and civil rights activist, and the nephew of Gretchen Peters, a singer and songwriter.

Education
Peters earned a BS degree in physics and astronomy from Yale University.

Career
After college, Peters joined the U.S. Air Force but left for an engineering job at Wine.com.

Peters was the senior VP at Macrovision Solutions Corp (renamed to Rovi Corporation).

Netflix
In 2008, Peters joined Netflix as the international development officer, responsible for global partnerships with consumer electronics companies, Internet service providers and multi-channel video programming distributors.

In July 2017, Peters became the Chief Product Officer of Netflix. During his time as Chief Product Officer, Netflix introduced smart downloads, mobile games, ads and new crackdowns on password sharing. According to Bloomberg News, Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings put Peters in charge of these areas of the business and said Peters "made some great decisions for us". Later, in 2020, he became the Chief Operating Officer of Netflix.

On January 19, 2023, he became the Co-CEO of Netflix along with Ted Sarandos after Hastings stepped down and became Executive Chairman.