James Mertz
Managing Director at Townsend Mertz
Houston, Texas
Overview
Work Experience
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
Townsend Mertz is a real estate investment firm focusing on mixed-use developments in secondary and tertiary markets.
President
2011
Mertz Energy utilizes and develops new geologic and geoscience concepts and technology to find and profitably extract reserves.
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.
FTW Ventures is an investment & advisory group for early-stage Food & Ag Tech startups.
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.
SpaceFund is a venture capital firm, providing informed investing in a diversified portfolio of space companies.
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