Cliff Wagner

I’m an institutional capital allocator and entrepreneur with 18 years’ experience building and scaling investment platforms and deploying capital across complex credit, private equity build-ups, real estate, and hybrid capital structures.

I’ve spent my career operating in high-stakes situations—restructurings, growth financings, and platform builds—where capital structure, execution, and strategy are deeply intertwined. As Head of Southern Europe at Avenue Capital, I built a €1bn illiquid credit platform from scratch, and today through Arion Capital I advise and invest in companies navigating scale, complexity, and capital constraints.

What I bring at board level is the ability to bridge strategy and capital: helping companies design the right financing structures, execute under pressure, and scale institutional-grade platforms. Increasingly, I’m focused on where this intersects with digital infrastructure—blockchain, AI, and tokenised capital markets—bringing a forward-looking perspective on how capital formation is evolving.

I’m most valuable to companies that are scaling, capital-intensive, or facing complexity—where getting the capital strategy right is as critical as the operating model.”