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词条 Douglas Clayton
释义

  1. Early life

  2. Professional career

  3. Leopard Capital

  4. Professional activities

  5. References

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| nationality = American
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| education = Cornell University, Chulalongkorn University
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| occupation = Private equity
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Douglas W. Clayton (born September 2, 1960) is an American venture capitalist. He is the founder and CEO of Leopard Capital.

Early life

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. 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.

Clayton served as a Counterintelligence Platoon leader in the United States Army from 1982 to 1986, including a tour of duty in Seoul, Korea. He completed US Army Intelligence School, counter-terrorism training, airborne parachutist training, and a Korean ranger course, before being honorably discharged with the rank of captain.

Professional career

In 1986, Clayton moved to Hong Kong and joined Sun Hung Kai & Co. as institutional sales manager. Afterward, Clayton worked at Kerry Securities as Head of Research in Hong Kong and then Bangkok.[1]

Clayton served as CLSA's chief executive in Thailand,[1] 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. He served as the chief executive officer at CLSA Securities from 1994-1997.[1]

Clayton returned to Thailand in 1999 to found Abacus Equity Partners, which advised on several landmark private equity deals in Thailand. He later joined Credit Agricole Indosuez WI Carr Securities, managing its Singapore and Malaysia offices.

Leopard Capital

In 2007, Clayton moved to Phnom Penh, Cambodia and founded Leopard Capital to pioneer investment funds in frontier markets. During the 2008-2009 global financial crisis, Leopard Capital successfully launched Leopard Cambodia Fund as the first private equity fund for Cambodia. The Fund subsequently made 12 investments in Cambodia, Laos, and Thailand and achieved three exits.

In 2012, Leopard Capital raised the first private equity fund for Haiti, initially raising $20 million from The World Bank’s International Finance Corp, The Inter-American Development Bank’s Multilateral Investment Fund, and the Netherlands Development Finance Company (FMO).

Professional activities

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,[2] CNBC,[3] and Reuters.[4] His comments on frontier markets are frequently quoted in the Financial Times,[5] The Wall Street Journal,[6] The New York Times,[7] and numerous other print and electronic publications.[8]

A frequent speaker at investment conferences, Clayton and Leopard Capital were discussed in the book World Right Side Up and were the subject of a case study by the Stanford Graduate School of Business.[9] Clayton serves on the Asia Council of the Emerging Markets Private Equity Association (EMPEA) and was named CEO of the Year - Hong Kong in the 2013 Business Excellence Awards.[10][11]

References

1. ^{{Cite web|url = https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=44701790&privcapId=44701718|title = Company Overview of Leopard Capital LP|last =|first =|date =|website = Bloomberg|publisher =|access-date = April 18, 2016}}
2. ^{{cite video |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/video/90876439/ |title=Extreme Investing in Cambodia |author= |publisher=Bloomberg L.P. |date= |accessdate=19 May 2012}}
3. ^{{cite video |title=Is Myanmar Open for Business? |url=http://video.cnbc.com/gallery/?video=3000082063 |publisher=CNBC |date=April 3, 2012 |accessdate=May 19, 2012}}
4. ^{{cite web |title=Reuters interviews Douglas Clayton about Leopard Capital Fund, Reuters |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWqwF2OCYM8 |work=May 27, 2010 |publisher=Reuters |accessdate=20 May 2012}}
5. ^{{cite news |title=Funds Put Frontier Lands On Map |url=http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/c8daf282-7291-11e1-9c23-00144feab49a.html |newspaper=Financial Times |accessdate=20 May 2012}}
6. ^{{cite news |title=The Cambodian Wild West |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702304203604577395600458028114 |accessdate=20 May 2012 |newspaper=Wall Street Journal |date=May 10, 2012}}
7. ^{{cite news |title=Looking for Opportunity Where Few Others Invest |url=https://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/12/26/investing-in-asias-frontier-with-eyes-on-the-horizon/ |accessdate=16 January 2013 |newspaper=New York Times |date=December 26, 2012}}
8. ^{{cite news |title=Profile: Leopard Capital's Douglas Clayton |url=http://www.avcj.com/avcj/interview/2214543/profile-leopard-capitals-douglas-clayton |accessdate=16 January 2013 |newspaper=AVCJ |date=October 4, 2012}}
9. ^{{cite news |title=Leopard Capital: Private Equity in Cambodia|url=http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/leopard-capital|newspaper=Stanford Graduate School of Business }}
10. ^{{cite news |title=EMPEA: Asia Council |url=http://empea.org/about/leadership-governance/councils/asia-council |accessdate=12 December 2014 |newspaper=EMPEA }}
11. ^{{cite news |title=Acquisition International|url=http://acquisition-intl.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1136#4|accessdate=13 June 2014 |newspaper=Acquisition International }}
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