David Place is the Founder and CEO of Place Partners Group.  He has over 30 years of tax and transaction structuring experience working with large institutional investors, hedge funds, and private equity. 

He has been focused on Brazilian finance projects with Agrinlog for the last five years, serving as Head, Corporate Finance for the last three years.  In this role, Mr. Place has been structuring multi-party and multi-jurisdictional asset-backed financing transactions. 

Prior to joining Agrinlog, Mr. Place worked as a Managing Director at Griffin Financial Group (2009 to 2013) developing the insurance linked securities platform and working with global insurance companies on credit enhancement transactions targeting complex business structures. Mr. Place was a Managing Partner at Risk Capital Partners from 2006 to 2009 (structuring group), and from 2005 to 2006, David was a co-founder, principal, and CFO of the registered investment advisor Mill Creek Capital Advisors.  From 1999 to 2005, Mr. Place was a Partner with Tax Counselors of Bryn Mawr LLC.  In that role, Mr. Place worked primarily with the firm’s 300 tax clients (private equity groups, hedge funds, and individual investors) in structuring tax efficient monetization and hedging transactions. Mr. Place also spent six years as a Manager and Senior Manager with PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (1993 to 1999).  Prior to PwC, Mr. Place worked with the large law firm Quarles & Brady in Milwaukee. 

He graduated from the University of Notre Dame with a B.A. in 1984 and received his J.D. from the University of Wisconsin Law School in 1987.