Peter Gleysteen

Founder, CEO and Chief Investment Officer, AGL Credit Management

Gleysteen is the Founder, CEO & CIO of AGL Credit Management. Gleysteen’s prior two employers were JPMorgan Chase and CIFC Asset Management. At JPMorgan Chase, and antecedent entities Chemical Bank and Chase Manhattan, Gleysteen was the lead banker on many of the largest LBO, M&A, and Re-Structuring financings in the 1980s and 1990s, ran global loan syndications as Group Head Global Syndicated Finance, was responsible for the global corporate loan portfolio as Group Head Global Capital Management, and served as Chief Credit Officer of JPMorgan Chase & Co. Gleysteen was integral to the evolution of the bank loan asset class from inception including making the first “B-Loan” in 1989 and conceiving and instituting the “Market Flex” pricing convention in 1997. Gleysteen joined Chemical Bank in 1975. Gleysteen founded CIFC and managed it as CEO from inception in 2005 to 2014. CIFC was sold and he then served as Vice-Chairman and special advisor until 2016. Gleysteen began forming AGL Credit Management in 2018 and launched it in 2019 together with Thomas H. Lee and the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority. AGL currently has $ 10 Billion AUM mostly in CLOs.Gleysteen has a BA in History from Trinity College and an MBA, Executive Program, from the University of Chicago. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a board member of Mystic Seaport Museum.