Damian Valdez of National Center for Sustainable Development NCSD

Damian Omar Valdez has over 25 years of international business experience as an entrepreneur and investor, with extensive experience in the energy, maritime, telecommunications, information technology, media, financial services and FinTech industries.  His business experience has spanned the globe, from North America, Europe, and Asia, with extensive emerging market experience throughout Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, South America, North and West Africa, South East Asia and China.  Throughout his career he has taken an innovative approach to many established business ideas, adapting them to shifting technological and market paradigms, across multiple asset classes.

Mr. Valdez is a serial entrepreneur and investor who specializes in building business from the ground up. Throughout his career he has taken an innovative approach to many established business ideas, adapting them to shifting technological and market paradigms, across multiple asset classes, including venture capital, private equity, distressed assets, commodities, real estate, and credit alternatives. With this approach, Mr. Valdez’s business career and activities have been dedicated to investments that address the challenges of Sustainable Development, principally focusing on energy security, technology, and economic development. 

Presently Mr. Valdez divides his time between venture capital and private equity investments in energy, FinTech, and e-Commerce through Prosper Group International, Limited, a Hong Kong based investment holding company.   He is responsible for the research, development and execution of the investment strategies pursued by Prosper, and participates in the corporate, strategic, technical and financial planning, operations and business affairs of its portfolio companies. 

Prior to Prosper Group, Mr. Valdez served as President of Sinoaccess Investments, Inc., (2000-2011) which he co-founded with a Chinese partner, initially to pursue investments in broadband IT infrastructure and wireless media technologies in China.  In 2005, he redirected and dedicated the company’s focus to invest in renewable energy and emissions credits trading in China.  He was responsible for the research, development and execution of the investment strategies and business management of the firm, and participated in several hydro-electric projects in China under the Kyoto Protocol. During this time, Mr. Valdez served as a Trustee of the National Center for Sustainable Development (www.ncsdusa.org), a U.S. based 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization, from 2009 to 2011.  He was responsible for developing the founding concepts, strategy, and expansion of the NCSD's mission to include Energy Security and Low Carbon Energy, Water Scarcity and Global Climate Change. During his tenure as a Trustee he was responsible for developing cooperative programs in association with the China CDM Fund of the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Environment and the Ministry of Water Resources of China. 

From 2004, Mr. Valdez returned to the financial services industry to focus on the small business credit and lending sector in the U.S., and was the founder of Evolution Group and several predecessor investment companies (2004-2011) providing a platform for investments focused on small business loan assets. 

From 1995 to 2004, he engaged in venture capital investments in the international telecom business, wireless telecom and broadband IT infrastructure, and internet and mobile technologies, having established and successfully operated several private communications companies through Worldstar Development Corp., (1995-2004) a private investment firm he founded based in New York, Ivanhoe Capital Corp., Pte Ltd. (2000-2001), a private equity investment firm based in Singapore, and Sinoaccess Investments, Inc., (2000-2011).  Mr. Valdez oversaw Worldstar’s, Ivanhoe’s and Sinoaccess’s corporate, strategic, technical and financial planning and the operations and business affairs of their respective investments in the U.S., South America, the Caribbean, North and West Africa, Indonesia, Singapore and China.  During this period (late 2001 to 2003) Mr. Valdez served as a consultant and advisor to Enron Broadband Services, Inc. and Dynegy Inc.’s Dynegy Global Communications to evaluate expansion, investment and restructuring opportunities in their respective communications businesses. 

From late 1989 to 1995, Mr. Valdez was involved in distressed asset investments in the energy and maritime sectors, during which he worked as an Associate with SEACOR Holdings, Inc. (NYSE, CKH), from 1993 to late 1994, involved in investments and operations in offshore marine support vessels serving the offshore oil and gas exploration and production industry.  Prior to SEACOR Mr. Valdez founded American Marine Capital Corp. in 1992, where he engaged in investments in maritime transportation and infrastructure for crude oil, LNG, and coal and distressed offshore and onshore oil-field services equipment in the U.S., up until 1995.  From 1990 to 1992, Mr. Valdez worked as an Associate at Bergvall & Hudner Shipwoners and Investors, a boutique investment firm where he participated in the research, planning and implementation of distressed asset strategies in the maritime sector.  He was responsible for analyzing investments, ship finance and mergers and acquisitions, and worked extensively on four transactions including B+H Crude Carriers Ltd., an owner of crude oil tankers, and B+H Bulk Carriers Ltd., B+H Ocean Carriers Ltd. and B+H Maritime Carriers Ltd., that were IPO’s on the AMEX that owned dry bulk carriers and product tankers.  

Mr. Valdez started his career in the financial services industry in New York as a high-yield debt analyst with Drexel Burnham Lambert in 1988 and subsequently with Scudder Stevens and Clark in 1989. 

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