Russell Deakin

CIO & Founding Managing Partner at Aceana Group

Speaker

Russell Deakin is the CIO and Founding Managing Partner of Aceana Group, a SFO focused on private investments. Mr. Deakin is an executive with 30 years’ experience in North America, Europe, Asia and South America with private equity/venture capital, real estate, and infrastructure/energy. Mr. Deakin has been a partner of a VC fund and a managing director of a private equity firm. Over the last few years, Mr. Deakin has been an active investor in general strategies, Climatetech, AI, Deep tech,Fintech, Blockchain, Crypto, Life science, Digital Health, Proptech. SpaceTech, EdTech & MedTech by investing in venture and private equity funds, direct investments, co-investments, and tokens.

Also, Mr. Deakin was a CFO/partner for 11 years for a real estate developer in addition to being on boards of invested companies and interim CFO for other portfolio companies.

Previously to Aceana Group, Mr. Deakin was a Managing Director of Rio Bravo Investimentos, a fund manager with AUM of USD 2.6 billion, that seeks to invest in equities, real estate investments, private equity and infrastructure funds. Before this, Mr. Deakin was a Partner at CRP Participações, Brazil’s oldest private equity/venture capital firm; and prior to that, for 11 years, he was a Partner and CFO for a Brazilian real estate developer.

Mr. Deakin also has previous capital markets experience with Morgan Stanley and Merrill Lynch in London.

A dual British and American citizen, Mr. Deakin is a frequent speaker at industry wide PE/VC and family office events. Mr. Deakin has a BA in economics and history from Tufts, where he was selected for an Honors exchange program with Oxford University. He also has an MBA in International Marketing and Finances from the Anderson Graduate School at UCLA.