Not just no, Hell no. He is scamming you. There once was a guy who passed himself off as Clark Rockefeller and got away with it for years by doing basically what this guy is doing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Gerhartsreiter All he did was get in with some people in the right circles, drop their names to others in the same circle, eventually enough people had heard of him that he was elected president of some prestigious club downtown.
Dropping names and asking for credit = con.