MicroVest Capital Management CEO – US Member
Mr. Crawford co-founded MicroVest Capital Management in 2003, an emerging market-focused asset management company specializing in responsible financial institutions. As MicroVest’s CEO, he led the launch of MicroVest I, LP, the first commercial private equity vehicle focused on microfinance in North America. Since then, Mr. Crawford has overseen MicroVest’s successful launch of 6 other funds. After DAI Capital’s 2021 acquisition of MicroVest, he serves as Chair of the MicroVest Investment Committee and as a member of the DAI MicroVest Board.
Prior to co-founding MicroVest, he worked for the Latin American Financial Markets Division at the International Finance Corporation (IFC), focused on investments in microfinance institutions. Before joining IFC, he created and ran Seed Capital Development Fund, a firm focused on creating microfinance financial instruments in Latin America, Asia, and Africa. His work at Seed Capital, built upon his role as the Assistant Project Director for Africa Venture Capital Project, where he designed risk capital firms in Africa. Mr. Crawford also spent time overseas with the Red Cross in Chad and the State Department in Guinea.
Mr. Crawford is an adjunct professor teaching Impact Investing to graduate students at Johns Hopkins SAIS . He serves on the Board of the Tunisian American Enterprise Fund. Former boards include AfricInvest Private Capital, a Sub-Saharan finance company and American Capital Senior Finance, LLC (a listed mid-market finance BDC), Banco Solidario, in Ecuador and Edyficar in Peru.
He is fluent in English and works in French, Spanish and Swedish.
Mr. Crawford has an M.A. from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and a B.A. from Bates College.