
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. 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. Earlier, he served as Head of Digital Assets and a member of the Investment Committee at ICG Advisors, an approximately $8 billion multi family office. Since 2015, Michael has conducted investment and operational due diligence across hedge funds, private equity, private credit, structured credit, real estate, venture capital, digital assets, and other alternative investment strategies.
Michael holds a B.A. in Political Science from Swarthmore College and an MSc in International Political Economy from the University of Oxford.