Our People

Patrick G. Barclay, LL.M. is CEO and founder of the Bambu Fund LLC. As an experienced chief executive officer, Mr. Barclay has a demonstrated history covering more than 30 years of being a skilled negotiator, business planner, operations manager, facilities manager and an exceptionally strong business development professional. Mr. Barclay was the first chief operating officer at Ariel Investments while the firm’s assets under management grew from US$500 million to US$1.8 billion. During the formation of the Bambu Fund, under his leadership, Bambu has established projects like the International Medical Services Credentialing Portal ® and Bambu Health & Wellness ®.

During March of 2015, Mr. Barclay was a member of an official trade delegation, sponsored by a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, that met with Jamaica’s leadership to discuss their desire to support the growth and development of projects under Jamaica’s “Medical Tourism” regime. Since that time, Mr. Barclay and the team that he has been carefully assembling have been establishing projects that will improve lives, create jobs and impact economic development in the Latin American Caribbean region (LAC). Ever visionary, Mr. Barclay has created a platform that permits targeted investment in communities ravaged by the hurricanes of 2016 and 2017. Mr. Barclay intends to prove the often-overlooked LAC region is investor safe and filled with undiscovered gems that provide remarkable social and financial returns.

As the President of Nephtali, Inc. for more than 20 years, Mr. Barclay managed a variety of corporate real estate service activities for clients that included The Home Depot and BP. This involved: acquisition and disposition services; commercial land valuations; managing the environmental remediation of former petroleum marketing locations and the management of 18 cafes inside the former EXPO Design Centers in the Midwest and Southern regions of the United States. Additional responsibilities while with Ariel Investments, included secretary to the board of directors and a director of the Ariel Foundation. Prior to his time at Ariel, Mr. Barclay was special assistant to former Governor James R. Thompson in the State of Illinois, while on loan from AT&T.

Mr. Barclay earned his primary law degree, in Chinese Civil & Commercial Law, from Renmin University of China Law School in Beijing, China; and was among the first Americans to do so. Mr. Barclay holds a Master of Laws degree in U.S. Law from Washington University School of Law in St. Louis, Missouri. Additionally, Mr. Barclay has earned several graduate degrees, including an Ed.M. from Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His undergraduate degree is a B.A. in Economics, which was earned from Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts. Mr. Barclay is a member of the Jamaican Bar Association. As part of his charitable activities, Patrick enjoys being an Alumni Admissions Representative for both Tufts and Harvard universities.