Peter Tesei

Tesei was born March 5, 1969, in Greenwich, Connecticut. His parents relocated back to town in 1967. He attended Julian Curtiss School and Greenwich Country Day School before studying at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts.[7] He transferred to University of Connecticut were he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science in 1991.

Before being elected into the position as First Selectman, Tesei was a Vice President of the wealth management group at BNY Mellon in New York.[8] Since his resignation from public office, he has engaged in various activities. Tesei currently is the principal owner of Peter J. Tesei, LLC, a consulting and advisory business and public affairs and communications firm for non-profits.[9] He is also an executive director for Pathway's, Inc.[10]

In 1988, a 18-year-old Tesei, was elected to the Greenwich Town Representative Meeting (RTM), the legislative body of Greenwich, Connecticut. Before being elected to First Selectman in 2007, he spent almost twenty years in municipal government, serving on the Board of Estimate and Taxation. In 1986, he was endorsed with a letter of support by Lowell Weicker.

In 2007, he assumed office as First Selectman of Greenwich and served six terms until resigning from office in 2019. He was succeeded by party ally Fred Camillo.

Tesei is married to Jill (née Vaughan) Tesei, a board certified psychiatric nurse practitioner, who operates an independent practice in the Cos Cob section of Greenwich.[11] They reside in Cos Cob and have two children; James (b.c. 2009) and Caroline (b.c. 2007).[12][13][14]