Alan J. Peters received a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Management in 1981 and a Master of Business Administration degree from Utah State University in 1987. Prior to entering on duty with the FBI, Mr. Peters was a Certified Financial Manager for Merrill Lynch.

In May 1989, Mr. Peters was appointed special agent and was assigned to the Denver Division following his training period at Quantico, Virginia. While assigned to the Denver Division, Mr. Peters specialized in White Collar Crime investigations, with collateral duties including firearms instructor. Mr. Peters was recognized as the Colorado Investigator of the Year in 1995 as a result of several investigative successes involving multi-million dollar investment schemes and his efforts as the Denver Division case agent on Operation Maxbill, the largest national Health Care Fraud investigation at the time.

In July 1998, Mr. Peters was transferred to FBI Headquarters, Washington, D.C., as a Supervisory Special Agent in the Economic Crimes Unit, Criminal Investigative Division. During this tour of duty, Mr. Peters had national program responsibility for the FBI's Securities Fraud and Intellectual Property Rights programs including development of national training seminars in these matters.

In July 2000, Mr. Peters was transferred to the Las Vegas Division where he was initially tasked as the White Collar Crime Program Coordinator, supervising a White Collar Crime squad. During this assignment, Mr. Peters formed and chaired both the Nevada Investment Fraud and Nevada Mortgage Fraud Task Forces. Soon after arriving in Las Vegas, Mr. Peters developed the organizational structure and implemented the Nevada Cyber Crimes Task Force, which included the establishment of a multi-million dollar task force facility. Mr. Peters created the first Cyber Crimes squad in the Division. He directed two successful undercover operations to include Operation Bandwidth, addressing Internet theft of intellectual property, and Operation NetCarder, addressing international identity theft and computer intrusions. While in Las Vegas, Mr. Peters was the Division's primary crisis management coordinator, being detailed to the New Orleans' Hurricane Katrina command post in September 2005.

Mr. Peters is currently the Assistant Special Agent in Charge of FBI's Portland Division, where he is responsible for the oversight and management of criminal investigations and administrative matters covering the state of Oregon. He coordinated the establishment of the recently-formed Metro Gang Task Force. He sits on the Executive Boards of the Northwest Regional Computer Forensics Lab, the Oregon High-Intensity Drug Trafficking Area, and the Regional Economic Crimes Investigation Committee.

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