About AGXL.ai

Founder & CEO

Partner - Asia Pacific

Strategic Development & Partnerships

Board Advisor

​A Canadian national with 30 years of experience in private equity, investments and emerging markets. Creighton, ICD.D, FRGS, has held leadership positions at firms like Convergence Blended Finance, Cordiant, and EMPEA. He has experience in international capital markets. 1999, co-founded Cordiant, a unique fund manager specializing in emerging market, private credit investments. Guest lecturer at The Wharton School, McGill University and frequent speaker at conferences and in the media on matters relating to private investment in emerging markets. His focus areas include sustainable investment, infrastructure finance, and blended finance vehicles. He has structured innovative funds and financing platforms spanning Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Creighton holds a BA (Hons) in Agricultural Economics from the University of Guelph

Board Advisor

​

Christopher has held merchant banking and corporate roles in several countries. He was until 2003 Global Head, Private Equity sitting also on the Group Management Board at Dresdner Kleinwort; and Acting Global Head of PE/Infra investing, Standard Bank of South Africa (2006/7). He is a co-founder and continuing board member of Roper Technologies Inc (NYSE, S+P 500). He is Chairman, Yimei Capital, Shanghai; Advisory Director (Emeritus) at Campbell Lutyens; and board member of other US/EUR companies, public and private.

Christopher is a Director of Merifin Capital, a Brussels based investment company. He has advised family offices in the USA, Germany, Italy and the UK. 

Christopher has a Certified Diploma (Accounting/Finance), and holds an M.A (Oxon). He is Hon. Fellow, Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He is (pro bono) director, The Sutton Trust; and a Fellow of both the Royal Geographical Society and the Royal Society of Arts.

Board Advisor

​

Bert brings over 35 years in emerging-market private investment and SME finance. He is Co-founder and Chief Investment Officer of SEAF, the global investment firm he co-founded in 1989 that has deployed growth capital and operational support to small and medium enterprises across more than 30 developing markets — including Bangladesh, India, Vietnam, China, Eastern Europe and Latin America. He previously served as CEO and President of SEAF, and as Executive Chairman of its Board of Directors. From 2010 to 2012 he directed the initial phase of SEAF's India Agribusiness Fund from New Delhi. Earlier in his career he was a Partner with Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher in Washington, Frankfurt and Brussels, specialising in corporate and financial transactions, and a management consultant with Bain & Company in London and Munich. He holds a J.D. from Yale Law School, where he also studied finance at Yale School of Management, an M.Phil in Economics and B.A. in Politics and Economics from the University of Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar, and a B.A. from the University of North Carolina, where he was a Morehead Scholar.

At AGXL, Bert contributes the rarest combination of qualifications on the board — direct operational track record in agricultural fund management in India, SME finance experience in Bangladesh, and four decades of designing and deploying capital into emerging-market enterprises that traditional bureau-based credit cannot reach. His counsel directly informs how AGXL positions itself across the global DFI and emerging-market credit ecosystem.