Peter Gleysteen is the Founder, CEO, and CIO of AGL Credit Management which he established with the support of Abu Dhabi Investment Authority. AGL is a corporate credit specialist that creates and manages investments including leveraged loans in various formats. 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, 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 founded CIFC Asset Management in 2005 and managed it as CEO from inception to 2014. 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.