Leadership

Damian O. Valdez

Damian Valdez is a seasoned investor and entrepreneur with over 35 years of extensive business experience and deep domain expertise across diverse industries.

Damian has a proven track record as a founder, co-founder, and investor in principal investments spanning Energy, Maritime, Aviation, Technology, Media & Telecommunications (TMT), Fintech, Ecommerce, Biomedical Sciences, AI, Entertainment, Hospitality, and Real Estate, with transaction value exceeding US$2 billion. He is skilled in domestic and complex cross-border transactions, including acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, restructurings, financing transactions, and investment, corporate, and operational management roles.

Damian’s business career has been dedicated to transformative investments that address the challenges of sustainable development and that take an innovative approach to many established business models, adapting them to evolving technological and market paradigms, across multiple asset classes, including Venture Capital, Private Equity (growth, distressed, infrastructure), Credit, Commodities, and Real Estate. Damian has extensive business and investment experience throughout North America and Europe, and emerging markets in Mexico, Central & South America, the Caribbean, North & West Africa, South East Asia, and China.

Prior to joining AgnistaBio, Damian has been dividing time between Real Estate development and investments in Advanced Air Mobility/eVTOL infrastructure, Hospitality, Entertainment, Ecommerce, and Health & Life Sciences, through Challenger Group.

Damian received a Bachelor of Science in Economics, Finance Major, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.