Stephen Johnston is the founder and CIO of Agcapita Farmland Investment Partnership and manages a family of commodity linked investment funds based in Calgary, Alberta.   Stephen has over 16 years experience as a fund manager from both the private equity and debt markets perspectives. Stephen has a BSc. (1987) and a LLB (1990) from the University of Alberta and a MBA (1994) from the London Business School.  His experience includes:
 
- Agcapita Farmland Investment Partnership – Founder, CIO - Canada’s largest RRSP eligible farmland investment fund 
- Petrocapita Income Trust – Founder, CIO – Energy investment trust focusing on acquiring conventional heavy oil production assets 
- Societe Generale Asset Management - Emerging Markets UK - head of the private equity team responsible for closed-end funds covering the Baltics, Central and Eastern Europe and the Middle East with almost C$ 500 million under management
- Nexus Equity – principal of a £12 million early stage technology fund based in London, UK, sub-fund of GMT Partners ($1 billion TMT fund)    
- European Bank for Reconstruction and Development – banker on the Telecommunications and Media Team, providing debt and equity financing to companies based in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union - participated in over $400 million in transactions
- AT Kearney -  strategy consultant implementing risk management systems for Swedish investment banking clients – focusing on loan default metrics
- Baring Brothers – banker in the structured finance department

Stephen is a frequent guest on BNN and has been quoted in a wide range of media outlets including the Wall Street Journal, Macleans, the Financial Times, Canadian Business magazine and the Globe and Mail.  Stephen's monthly investment briefing is read by over 20,000 subscribers.

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