James Mertz

Managing Director

2018 - Current

Townsend Mertz is a real estate private equity firm focused on opportunistic investing in mixed-use, ground-up developments in secondary/tertiary markets. https://www.townsendmertz.com

President

2011

Partner

2007

Diversified Family Office See http://www.mertzholdings.com for additional details.

Board Member

2013

Neurodyn Inc. utilizes a portfolio approach to identify, validate and develop bioactives for neuroprotection and the early treatment of neurological diseases. Neurodyn finds bioactive compounds within historically-proven natural treatments, de-risks and protects these compounds, reaches a significant value-inflection point, and partners early and aggressively in order to provide early returns. Primary focus is currently on curing Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, ALS, and other neurodegenerative diseases.

Rancher

1992

LP Advisor

2019 - 2022

Food for Thought Worldwide (FTW) Ventures is an early-stage venture fund investing in breakthrough hardware, software and biotech solutions for the massive, worldwide Food System. We believe in feeding people better by leveraging responsible science & technology to improve the quality, access and enjoyment of food.

Managing Partner

2021 - 2022

SpaceFund is a venture capital firm investing in the rapidly growing space startup ecosystem. Helped with some "start-up pains" and tried to coach existing team while starting and running Fund II for them. Some of the portfolio is going to really do well.

Board Observer

2011 - 2021

Full-service provider of artificial lift and frac hit recovery solutions. Reach offers a solution which can be installed and operational within a day and offers unparalleled flexibility to improve production through dynamic operating conditions. At the heart of Reach's solution is its multiphase compression technology, capable of compression ratios an order of magnitude higher than existing technologies and the ability to move liquids which other compressor simply cannot do. Sold!

Venture Advisor

2010 - 2021

Anchor and seed investor into new cloud/software/security VC firm that drastically outperformed.

Chairman

2014 - 2017

Chairman of the Society of Independent Professional Earth Scientists