Michael Mendez

Co-Founder & Managing Director

Estancia Capital Management LLC

Joined: 2010

Office Phone:

(480) 448-5001

Direct Phone:

(480) 448-5007


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Bio

As a Co-Founder of Estancia, Mr. Mendez’s primary focus is sourcing, monitoring and driving growth of Estancia’s portfolio companies as well as firm leadership/strategy and management. He also is responsible for client service and communication with Estancia’s Limited Partners. He serves on the Board of Managers at Redwood Investments, Sapience Investments, and Snowden Lane Partners. Mr. Mendez formerly served on the Board of Managers at Sustainable Growth Advisers prior to its sale to Virtus Investment Partners. Prior to co-founding Estancia in 2010, Mr. Mendez demonstrated a successful 20-year track record of building highly respected Asset Management companies. As President of NWQ Investment Management Company, he was the key architect transforming NWQ from a single-product organization with $6 billion in assets under management into two highly respected, institutional-quality, multi-product investment platforms managing in excess of $65 billion. One of the key strategic decisions in which he contributed was to separate the international and global equity strategies into a separate and distinct brand, Tradewinds Global Investors, signifying the importance and commitment to this developing business and consequently increasing the strategy’s attractiveness to institutional investors. Also of note, from the time Nuveen Investments acquired NWQ in 2002, Mr. Mendez was a key member of Nuveen’s Mergers & Acquisitions Committee through 2009, where he reviewed over 150 acquisition opportunities resulting in successful investments in Winslow Capital Management and Santa Barbara Asset Management. Mr. Mendez earned his Bachelor of Science from San Jose State University. He also completed the Harvard Graduate School of Business Executive Leadership Program and separately earned his designation as a Certified Investment Management Analyst (CIMA) sponsored by the Investment Management Consultants Association.

Education

Work History

Nuveen Investments LLC

General Electric Company