Prior to forming Total Impact Capital, Mr. Saleeby spent much of his career in banking, capital markets and investment management in both emerging and developed markets across numerous sectors and capital structures. He has advised, managed and developed client business plans for new investment platforms in areas of: impact, ESG and commercial investments, PIPEs (private investments in public equities)/Direct Investments, SPACs, secondaries, private debt/equity vehicles and investments. He has structured transactions using combinations of commercial, DFI and impact oriented capital structures and investment vehicles, working with banks, investment funds, DFIs, IFIs, and others. Mr. Saleeby is a graduate of Citibank’s Global Finance Institute in New York. His background includes Chief Investment Officer of a $2bn Deutsche Bank Asset Management hedge fund of funds initiative, Managing Director of the New York investment firm RAM Capital, and senior investment banking positions with global firms such as Citibank, Salomon Smith Barney, and Spain’s Banco Bilbao Vizcaya (Latin America). From 1999 to 2001, he was a founding partner of African Private Equity Partners, where his team provided advisory services to Mexico’s Cemex on a unique SPV to acquire African assets. Mr. Saleeby has a BA in Economics and Politics with African Studies from Princeton University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. He holds FINRA Series 79 and 63 licenses.
Derek Saleeby