CLP Holdings LLC
U.S., Brazil, Portugal & Angola
Our Team
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Cesar Lewis Pereira - Founder

 

Mr. Pereira is an executive with over 30 years of experience in international investment banking and management consulting. He has been a principal investor, chief executive officer and consultant with several companies and projects in the US and in the Portuguese-speaking countries of Portugal, Brazil and Angola. 

He is a founder and one of the principal stockholders of a Brazilian/Ameirican exploration and mining company with emeralds, ornamental stone and other mineral resource concessions in Brazil. He has been involved in the development and implementation of the company's financing, exploration, mining and international product sales strategies.

 

He was also the president of an international financial advisory and consulting firm specializing in cross-border transactions with Brazil, Portugal and the Portuguese-speaking African countries of Angola and Mozambique. 

Mr. Pereira was a Partner of Ernst & Young in New York where he was responsible for the firm's Strategy, Marketing and Operations practices in the Eastern Region. During his seventeen years with Ernst & Young, he participated in over 120 client engagements in the U.S. and internationally.

Mr. Pereira is a former member of the Board of Directors of the Portuguese-American Leadership Council of the United States in Washington D.C., the Brazilian-US Chamber of Commerce, the U.S.-Angola Chamber of Commerce, the Board of Directors of the Portugal-U.S. Chamber of Commerce and past president of the American-Portuguese Society of New York. He is a member of The Order of Portuguese Engineers and the Gemological Institute of American Alumni Association. 

 

Mr. Pereira is fluent in Portuguese.

Mr. Pereira holds a B.A. in Economics and a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Rutgers University and an M.B.A. in Financial Management.
David E. Cripps - Senior Associate

 

Mr. Cripps is a senior investment professional with over 40 years of experience in portfolio consulting, asset allocation, equity, fixed-income, and alternative-asset portfolio strategies.  He has had extensive experience in counseling family offices, high net worth individuals, and institutions on their investment assets, encompassing portfolio policies, guidelines, custom benchmarks, and product assessment.  

 

Mr. Cripps has worked internationally with clients in the US, Latin America, Middle East and, more recently, for sixteen years in Asia including two years in Singapore and 14 years in Hong Kong.

 

Mr. Cripps established the Strategic Asset Advisory consultancy practice at HSBC Family Office Services Ltd in Hong Kong in 2005 focusing on Asian clients whose mandates totaled USD 1.5 billion of assets held at multiple banks.  He worked with clients to establish tailored investment policy statements and portfolio guidelines to determine allocations to asset classes and sub-asset classes, regional exposures, investment styles, manager selection and liquidations, foreign exchange exposures and ongoing advice adapting portfolio risks to evolving trends in the global economies and markets.  

 

For the previous fifteen years, Mr. Cripps was Senior Portfolio Counselor at Citigroup Private Bank, in New York, traveling extensively to work with Latin American and Middle East clients. For seven years he lived in Asia serving clients in Hong Kong, Philippines, Indonesia, Singapore, Taiwan, and Malaysia.  He worked closely with Private Bankers counseling key high net worth clients on investment strategies.

 

Mr. Cripps was VP with Manufacturers Hanover Investment Corporation (MHIC) responsible for International Business Development.  He helped establish investment advisory offices in Tokyo and Hong Kong and spent three months a year for five years in Japan.

Mr.Cripps started his career as a securities analyst for two years and then portfolio manager at Irving Trust Company and, subsequently, with Lionel D. Edie & Company in New York.  He managed over USD 4 billion in institutional equity portfolios for private and public Pension Funds, Endowments, Insurance Companies and Family Offices.

 

Mr. Cripps is a member of the New York Society of Security Analysts and the CFA Institute. He holds a Certificate of Investment Analysis from the New York Institute of Finance, a BA in Economics from NYU-Washington Square College, and an MBA in Investmens from NYU, Stern Graduate School of Business Administration.

Thomas M. Britt III – Legal Counsel


Mr. Britt’s practice focuses on international mergers and acquisitions, private equity financings and buyouts and capital markets transactions for financial sponsors, investment banks and corporations.

Mr. Britt is currently the Vice-Chair of the International Securities and Capital Markets Committee of the American Bar Association’s Section of International Law. He is also a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, a Fellow of the Foreign Policy Association and a member of the Clinton Global Initiative.

Mr. Britt graduated cum laude from Georgetown University in 1982. He received his J.D. from New York University School of Law and his M.B.A. in Finance from New York University Graduate School of Business in 1985.