Managing for Excellence

Clinton is a Director of Managing for Excellence and holds a JD and LLM in law from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and a BA in Political Economy from Williams College in Willamstown, Massachusetts. In past years he has been Assistant Director of Undergraduate Admissions at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Ford Foundation Fellow for the Study of International Public Law at the Council of Europe, in Strasbourg, France, where he engaged in the promotion of several international conventions, including various Council of Europe treaties relating to human rights, international trade and economic relations and the preservation of trans-frontier wildlife. Between 1992 and 1997 he was an Associate Lawyer practicing corporate and securities law for the New York and London offices of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, where he acted on behalf of US, European, African and Asian clients and investment banks, including Goldman Sachs, Salomon Brothers, Credit Suisse, TAG Heuer and Avis. Between 1997 and 2002, he was an Assistant Director and Director in Equity Capital Markets for Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein in London, where he effected a range of global equity offerings in sectors as diverse as oil and gas, telecommunications, banking and financial services. These clients included Orange, BHP Billiton, Sanlam, Polkski Koncern Naftowy (Poland), Banco Hypotecario (Argentina), Telewest, T-Mobile, Hoescht Clariant, Deutsche Telekom and Publicis (France), among others. Clinton has wide experience in international financial transactions, international law and trade. He emigrated to South Africa in 2002 and before joining Managing for Excellence, was in engaged in a range of private real estate projects in the Cape Winelands and the Atlantic Seaboard.