Matching long-term capital to purposeful investments.
Kristian Nammack founded Matinecock Capital in 2023 to raise capital for impactful companies and funds.
He believes that impact and strong financial returns should go together - double sustainability.
Kristian Nammack, Founder
Beginnings:
Kristian began his career in 1986 as a new accounts clerk at Salomon Brothers in NYC - believing it was just a short term gig before heading back to Cambridge for a doctorate in philosophy and a career in academia. But finance intrigued him and he ended up staying - to the surprise of many.
In 1988, Kristian moved to Sanford Bernstein - compelled to work for the best research firm in the industry - where he then spent 11 years and held many roles. Ultimately he built out their international business as the first person marketing abroad - first in equity capital markets, then in institutional asset management. In both cases, his role was global.
Kristian moved to London with Merrill Lynch Investment Managers in 1999 as a Managing Director and Global Product Specialist - first working with value investing products and then as a generalist focus on alternative asset funds.
Rounding out his experience, Kristian moved to the asset owner side in 2002. Relocating to Stockholm, Kristian worked first for AP3 then Skandia Liv, reporting to the CIO in both cases - researching, selecting, and managing external mandates.
Shift to consulting:
Kristian began to express his entrepreneurial side in 2005 and became an independent consultant.
He first worked to develop innovative alternative assets products for mainstream asset managers like Nomura, Ohman, and most recently Carbon Collective. He worked with two very large single family offices - one in NYC and the other in Gothenburg, Sweden - developing investment policy guidelines and selecting investments.
Kristian’s consulting moved away from investing for a few years so he could focus on other interests - the arts and public space. He consulted to and served as a trustee to a number of arts organizations and helped build out some PPP infrastructure in the National Parks Service and NYC Parks Department - focused on his former neighboring park Sagamore Hill - home to Theodore Roosevelt and then the Dyckman Farmhouse Museum in Inwood, NYC.
Kristian eventually came back to finance with a sole focus on returns-first impact investing - both as a consultant with his firm Hansa Impact LLC and now as a fund placement agent with his firm Matinecock Capital LLC - the focus of this website. (Please visit www.hansaimpact.com for more info on the impact consulting-at-large work.)
Life outside of work:
Kristian has been a trustee at many nonprofit organizations over the years - including the Hetrick Martin Institute in NY, Berea College, NutureArt, the Queens Museum, and the Dyckman Farmouse Museum.
Kristian is currently an active member of a number of community organizations, including serving on the Oversight Committee of the Park Slope Food Coop, a member-at-large of Transportation Alternatives - seeking improved public policy around bicyling and other clean transport in NYC, and is actively engaged in both his local Episcopal church and Quaker meeting.
Kristian finally returned to his interest in academia by enrolling at City College of New York (CCNY) in their Urban Sustainability Progam where he is pursuing graduate studies and intends to earn a PhD with a focus on how we can most effectively communicate the dire circumstances of the climate emergency to a diverse urban population and the need for behavioral and structural change that is socially just.
Kristian will soon launch a podcast on the CCNY radio station - WHCR (90.3 FM) - focused on interviewing leaders at the intersection of climate solutions and social justice - called Just CIimate Talk.
It is our firm belief that financing businesses that solve for critical social and environmental issues does not need to come at the expense of returns; to the contrary - profitable businesses are sustainable.
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