Peter Gleysteen

CEO & CIO at AGL Credit Management LLC

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Peter Gleysteen is the Founder, CEO, and CIO of AGL Credit Management which he established with the support of Abu Dhabi Investment Authority and the late Thomas H. Lee. AGL is a corporate credit specialist that creates and manages investments including leveraged loans in CLOs in various formats plus private credit.

Peter has five decades of credit and management experience and successfully navigated every economic cycle and market crisis since his career began in 1975. Peter’s two prior employers were JPMorgan Chase & Co. and CIFC Asset Management.

At JPMorgan Chase, and antecedent entities Chemical Bank and Chase Manhattan, Peter was the lead banker on many of the largest LBO, M&A, Recapitalization and Restructuring financings in the 1980s and 1990s. He ran global loan syndications as Group Head of Global Syndicated Finance, was responsible for the global corporate loan portfolio as Group Head of Global Capital Management and then served as the Chief Credit Officer of JP Morgan Chase & Co.

Peter 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.

Peter founded CIFC Asset Management in 2005 and managed it as CEO from inception to 2014 when it was sold for the first time and then as Vice-Chairman and special advisor until a second sale in 2016.

Peter formed AGL Credit Management in 2018 and launched it in 2019. AGL currently has over $24 billion in assets under management and announced an exclusive private credit collaboration with Barclays Bank PLC in 2024.

Peter has a BA in History from Trinity College, a MBA, Executive Program, from the University of Chicago, and attended St. Petersburg University, when Russia was the USSR. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a board member of Mystic Seaport Museum.