Peter T. Dziedzic, Jr. is a small-business owner who runs a retail and service beauty company.  Prior to starting his business, Pete was an attorney whose practice focused on representing private equity clients and their portfolio companies in merger and acquisition transactions.  Pete graduated from Yale University with distinction in 1999 with a B.A. in Political Science (with a concentration in International Relations) and received his J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law in 2002.  Pete and his husband currently live in Boston, Massachusetts.