Douglas W. Clayton

Douglas Clayton is the founder and CEO of Leopard Capital LP, a private equity fund management group specializing in Asian frontier markets. In 2008 Leopard Capital launched the first multisector investment fund for Cambodia raising $11 million out of a $100 million target., Leopard Cambodia Fund LP, which raised $34.1 million to invest in a country shunned by the world's investment community for over three decades. The Fund's successful launch encouraged a number of other managers to propose Cambodia investment funds, and helping bring Cambodia to global business attention.
Biography
Early life and Education
Raised in Connecticut, Clayton won a 4 Year Army ROTC Scholarship to attend Cornell University, where he earned a BA in History in 1982. He later received a MM degree from Chulalongkorn University's Sasin Graduate Institute of Business Administration in Bangkok,and completed additional finance courses at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.
Career
Commissioned in 1982 as a Lieutenant in the United States Army Clayton served as a Platoon Leader based in Seoul, Korea. During this time he became attracted to Emerging Asia’s growth prospects through his travels in Korea, Hong Kong, Thailand and the Philippines.
After completing his military service, Clayton decided to settle permanently in Asia and enter the investment field. In 1986 he joined Sun Hung Kai Securities’ Hong Kong institutional sales team and participated in the initial investment wave as China liberalized its economy . Clayton moved to Thailand in 1989 with Kerry Securities to become one its first investment analysts. In 1994 CLSA Asia-Pacific named him its Chief Representative in Thailand, and he led the CLSA office from an unranked to #1 ranking in the 1997 Asiamoney Brokers Poll. In the aftermath of the Asian financial crisis Clayton was assigned to manage CLSA’s Latin America brokerage division.
Clayton returned to Bangkok in 2001 to participate in the post-crisis recapitalization of distressed companies, and over the next six years held positions in investment banking (as CEO of Abacus Equity Partners), investment management (as CIO of Knight Asia Group) and research sales (as Head of Singapore and Malaysia for Indosuez WI Carr Securities).
Leopard capital
In 2007 Clayton relocated to Cambodia and formed Leopard Capital LP recruiting Marc Faber, Jim Rogers, Dr. Jim Walker and Heinrich Looser to serve as directors or advisors.
Clayton has been a spokesman for Cambodia investment. He was also named Technical Advisor to to H.E. Ming Bankosal, the Secretary General of the Securities and Exchange Commission of Cambodia, which is overseeing the regulatory preparations for the upcoming Cambodia Stock Exchange.
Clayton announced that Leopard Capital intends focus its investment funds in what he termed “Virgin Markets”. Clayton defined these as frontier markets in which few or no investment funds are operating.

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