Interlink Capital Strategies, established in 1994, is a Washington, DC-based fund manager, management consulting and financial advisory firm specializing in emerging and frontier market finance and business development. We are experts in developing business opportunities and/or financing them with an insider’s expertise on how to access government lending/investing programs worldwide, which often is the only long-term capital available in Africa, Latin America, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Russia and other CIS countries.
We solve business and financing needs: (click a link below for more information) Interlink specializes in creating the quantitative and qualitative transaction/project information to successfully develop, finance and complete business opportunities worldwide as an extension of your existing management team.
We solve business and financing needs: (click a link below for more information) Interlink specializes in creating the quantitative and qualitative transaction/project information to successfully develop, finance and complete business opportunities worldwide as an extension of your existing management team.
Origins: Tim Bridgewater and Neil Bush (brother of former President George W. Bush) founded Interlink to focus on business between the U.S. and Southeast Asia with Charoen Pokphand Group, one of the largest conglomerates in Asia. Today the focus has broadened to include most emerging and frontier markets.
Our People: The team includes former senior officials of ExIm Bank, including the COO & Vice Chairman, the former President of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), other former senior officials in relevant banking and government agencies. We are seasoned professionals in emerging market finance and business development. Members of the team have taught and lectured at leading universities and have created and written several books on international business topics. Titles include: Trade Finance Handbook, Inside the World’s Development Finance Institutions, Inside the World’s Export Credit Agencies, Selling Clean Energy Technology to the World, Terrorism & Personal Security, among other titles. (click here for more information about our team)
Partners and Affiliates: Interlink works with a number of partners and affiliates. Some examples include our role as a financial advisor to the U.S. Government’s Power Africa Initiative; having a joint venture with a large Turkish construction company that is rapidly expanding into frontier markets; cofounding a specialty finance company focused on short-term credit extensions to exporters and importers; and co-managing with industry experts KfW’s (German government) Geothermal Development Facility, a risk mitigation fund for early stage development of geothermal power in for Latin America. (click here for more information about our partners and affiliates)
Our People: The team includes former senior officials of ExIm Bank, including the COO & Vice Chairman, the former President of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), other former senior officials in relevant banking and government agencies. We are seasoned professionals in emerging market finance and business development. Members of the team have taught and lectured at leading universities and have created and written several books on international business topics. Titles include: Trade Finance Handbook, Inside the World’s Development Finance Institutions, Inside the World’s Export Credit Agencies, Selling Clean Energy Technology to the World, Terrorism & Personal Security, among other titles. (click here for more information about our team)
Partners and Affiliates: Interlink works with a number of partners and affiliates. Some examples include our role as a financial advisor to the U.S. Government’s Power Africa Initiative; having a joint venture with a large Turkish construction company that is rapidly expanding into frontier markets; cofounding a specialty finance company focused on short-term credit extensions to exporters and importers; and co-managing with industry experts KfW’s (German government) Geothermal Development Facility, a risk mitigation fund for early stage development of geothermal power in for Latin America. (click here for more information about our partners and affiliates)