Leadership profile

Michael Cameron

Co-Founder and Chief Investment Officer

Michael Cameron is Co-Founder and Chief Investment Officer of MBD Clarendon Holdings, a global investment and strategic advisory platform focused on sovereign wealth fund formation, national development initiatives, and Local Investment Partnerships across emerging and frontier markets. Through MBD Clarendon, he works with governments, central banks, sovereign institutions, and private investors to structure investment platforms designed to mobilize large scale international capital into strategic national priorities.

Michael is also a Senior Advisor to Naqaba International, where he advises on global investment strategy, capital formation, strategic partnerships, and cross border opportunities across financial services, infrastructure, and sovereign related initiatives.

Previously, Michael served as a Managing Director at Third Point LLC, a New York based alternative asset manager with approximately $25 billion in assets under management, where he remains an advisor. At Third Point, he was responsible for the firm’s Middle East strategy, including senior relationships with sovereign wealth funds, family offices, and institutional investors throughout the GCC, as well as capital formation and strategic partnerships across the firm’s investment platform.

Prior to Third Point, Michael was Head of the Middle East at Forest Road Company, where he led regional expansion efforts, developed strategic partnerships, and supported investment and capital raising initiatives across media, technology, digital assets, and specialty finance.

Before joining Forest Road, Michael spent eight years at ICG Advisors, an approximately $8 billion multi-family office, where he held a series of increasingly senior roles across investment research, manager selection, due diligence, and portfolio management. Most recently, he served as Head of Digital Assets and a member of the firm’s Investment Committee. During his tenure, he was responsible for evaluating and conducting investment and operational due diligence across a broad range of alternative investment strategies, including hedge funds, private equity, private credit, structured credit, real estate, venture capital, and digital assets. His work spanned manager sourcing, investment underwriting, portfolio construction, and ongoing monitoring across both traditional and emerging asset classes.

Michael holds a B.A. in Political Science from Swarthmore College and an MSc in International Political Economy from the University of Oxford.