Welcome back to the podcast, bribes, swindle, or steel. I'm Alexandra Rogge.

We're doing something a bit different today. We generally speak with investigative reporters

who uncover misconduct or compliance experts who manage risk. The only time we focused on the

business side is when we've talked to a

handful of people who ended up in prison because of their misconduct. And happily, this is a different

conversation today. My guest is Jeff Wright. Jeff is the managing partner of Actium Capital,

a private investment company with a global portfolio. ActDM has varied interests with real estate,

a managed loan fund, operating

companies to seed and Series A startup investments. Jeff is a self-described agnostic capitalists

that believes the world will change for the better when we have more women in leadership roles.

Jeff, thank you for joining me.

Alexander, it's wonderful to be here with you today.

Why don't you start by telling us what you mean by agnostic capitalist?

Acting capital is sometimes a little difficult to explain to people because we are not

pigeonholed or traditional PE or VC.

We look at a broad range of businesses and invest where we find we can

add value. We're opportunistic. We don't focus on just one area or one specific type of business or

one type of technology. Most of our deals are sourced by ourselves. And so we go out and we try to find great companies

with great leadership teams and good opportunities. That's what it means to be agnostic.

Let's shift right away to the compliance component of this. How do you evaluate investment

opportunities from a risk perspective? And are there sectors or even whole

countries, whole markets that you avoid? I think risk plays an aspect of the due diligence and

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