Douglas W. Clayton is founder and Chief Executive Officer of.
Education
Later he studied at Northwestern University"s Kellogg School of Management and received a Master of Management degree from the Sasin Graduate Institute of Business Administration of Chulalongkorn University, Thailand. He completed United States Army Intelligence School, counter-terrorism training, airborne parachutist training, and a Korean ranger course, before being honorably discharged with the rank of captain.
Career
Clayton was awarded a 4-year Army Reserve Officers" Training Corps Scholarship to attend Cornell University, where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in history in 1982 and joined the Beta Theta Pi fraternity. Clayton served as a Counterintelligence Platoon leader in the United States Army from 1982 to 1986, including a tour of duty in Seoul, of Korea. In 1986, Clayton moved to Hong Kong and joined Sun Hung Kai & Company as institutional sales manager.
Afterward, Clayton worked at Kerry Securities as Head of Research in Hong Kong and then Bangkok.
From 1993-1997, Clayton served as CLSA"s chief representative in Thailand, and led the office to #1 ranking in the Asiamoney Brokers Poll. He was promoted and transferred to New York to set up and manage CLSA"s Latin America division, establishing sales and research offices in Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Chile and Venezuela.
Clayton returned to Thailand in 1999 to found Abacus Equity Partners, which advised on several landmark private equity deals in Thailand. He later joined Cr Agricole Indosuez Wisconsin Carr Securities, managing its Singapore and Malaysia offices.
In 2007, Clayton moved to Phnom Penh, Cambodia and founded to pioneer investment funds in frontier markets.
During the 2008-2009 global financial crisis, successfully launched Leopard Cambodia Fund as the first private equity fund for Cambodia. In 2012, raised the first private equity fund for Haiti, initially raising $20 million from The World Bank’s International Finance Corporation, The Inter-American Development Bank’s Multilateral Investment Fund, and the Netherlands Development Finance Company (FMO). Clayton is a director of Kingdom Breweries (Cambodia) and DloHaiti, trustee of the Centre for Khmer Studies, and served as Technical Advisor to the Director General of the Securities and Exchange Commission of Cambodia.
As a recognized industry expert, Clayton appears frequently on financial industry television programs, including Bloomberg, Consumer News and Business Channel, and Reuters.
His comments on frontier markets are frequently quoted in the Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and numerous other print and electronic publications. A frequent speaker at investment conferences, Clayton and were discussed in the book World Right Side Up and were the subject of a case study by the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Clayton serves on the Asia Council of the Emerging Markets Private Equity Association (EMPEA) and was named Chief Executive Officer of the Year - Hong Kong in the 2013 Business Excellence Awards.