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Mr. Manternach is a Managing Director of ACA Associates, Inc., an aviation-focused international
consulting and financial advisory firm with principal offices in New York, NY. He provides strategic
and financial advice to corporations and institutional investors, primarily in the transportation and natural
resources industries. Mr. Manternach serves as an advisor to Composite Capital, where he is a Managing Director.
Mr. Manternach has nineteen years of experience in investment banking and investment management.
Mr. Manternach began his finance career at JPMorgan, where he was Vice President of investment
banking and worked for seven years. Mr. Manternach provided mergers and acquisitions advice and
raised capital for financial sponsors and corporate clients in a wide variety of industries, including metals
& mining, paper & packaging, telecoms, media and technology.
Mr. Manternach has worked as an institutional investment manager for eleven years. Mr. Manternach
was a Managing Director of Octavian Advisors, a global investment fund based in New York. While
at Octavian, Mr. Manternach was a senior member of the investment committee since the fund's
startup in 2006. He directed and oversaw public and private debt and equity investments, many of
which involved international companies in the transportation and natural resource industries. Prior to
Octavian, Mr. Manternach was a Vice President of Robeco Investment Management, where he was one
of two professionals who launched the Weiss, Peck & Greer Event-Driven Fund. Prior to Robeco, Mr.
Manternach was a senior analyst at EagleRock Capital Management.
Mr. Manternach holds an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a BS
in Electrical Engineering with distinction from Iowa State University. Prior to attending Wharton, Mr.
Manternach was an electrical engineer for Texas Instruments, where he designed integrated circuits and
was awarded a United States patent.
As a Managing Director of ACA Associates, Inc., Mr. Manternach provides strategic and financial
advice to corporations and institutional investors, primarily in the transportation, clean energy and natural
resources industries. Mr. Manternach also serves as a director of Prophecy Platinum Corp. and as an
advisor to Composite Capital, where he is a Managing Director.
Mr. Manternach has significant experience in the clean energy sector, both as a financial advisor and
as an institutional investment manager. Mr. Manternach began his finance career at JPMorgan, where
he was Vice President of investment banking and worked for seven years. He provided mergers and
acquisitions advice and raised capital for financial sponsors and corporate clients in a wide variety of
industries, including metals & mining and forest products.
As an investment manager for eleven years, Mr. Manternach managed investments in a wide range of
industries, including forest products and agriculture. His investment experience covered a wide range
of capital structures and asset classes, including project financings, distressed debt and carbon-linked
securities. Mr. Manternach remains a director of a private investment in a Peruvian forestry company that
generates and sells REDD credits under the UN Kyoto Protocol.
Mr. Manternach holds an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a BS
in Electrical Engineering with distinction from Iowa State University. Prior to attending Wharton, Mr.
Manternach was an electrical engineer for Texas Instruments, where he designed integrated circuits and
was awarded a United States patent.
was awarded a United States patent.