Facilitating long-term capital into purposeful investments.

Kristian Nammack founded Matinecock Capital in 2023 to facilitate more capital into purposeful investments. He believes that impact and strong financial returns should go together - double sustainability.

Matinecock Capital achieves its mission of expanding purposeful investing by offering relevant services to key stakeholders:

  • We serve as a placement agent - an extension of the sales and marketing team - to a number of carefully selected market rate purposeful funds and direct investments.

  • We serve as strategy consultants to a number of asset owners and allocators. We help them explore what options they have to implement purposeful investing - across asset classes and themes. We particularly like working with Next Gens to help them incorporate their often expansive values into their investments.

  • We mentor, coach, and share lived experiences with clients, colleagues, students, and fellow practitioners. We believe life is a team sport and our business life should refect that. Our world view is one of abundance - so sharing comes naturally.

  • We are soon launching a mapping project with a few partners to assist navigating the broad array of facilitators in the responsible, sustainable, and impact investing space - this new initiative is called Pathways.

Kristian Nammack, Founder

Beginnings:

Kristian began his career in 1986 at Salomon Brothers in New York - 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 pretty much everyone.

In 1988, Kristian moved to Sanford Bernstein (now Alliance Bernstein/AB) - 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 in 1999 with Merrill Lynch Investment Managers (now BlackRock) as a Managing Director and Global Product Specialist - first working with value investing products and then as a generalist with a focus on alternative asset funds to distribute them globally.

Rounding out his experience, Kristian moved to the asset owner side in 2002. Relocating to Stockholm, Kristian worked first for the Swedish State Pension Fund/AP3 and then at 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 both mainstream and boutique 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 public-private partnerships for the National Parks Service and NYC Parks Department. His first project was founding a friends group for Sagamore Hill - historic home to Theodore Roosevelt in Oyster Bay Cove, NY and near where Kristian grew up. He then worked with the Dyckman Farmhouse Museum in Inwood, NYC.

Kristian eventually came back to finance with a sole focus on building the field for responsible, sustainable, and impact investing.

Life outside of work:

Kristian has been a trustee at many nonprofit organizations over the years - including the Hetrick Martin Institute/HMI, Berea College, NurtureArt, the Queens Museum, the Theodore Roosevelt Legacy Partnership (which he founded) and the Dyckman Farmhouse Museum.

He currently serves on the Advisory Board of the Watermill Center in Bridgehampton, New York - an experimental arts residency program - and on the Advisory Board of EcoRise - a nonprofit educational organization that supports environmental education in US primary schools.

Kristian is quite driven by his faith. He is active with a number of faith-based groups in his community including the local Episcopal church, the local Quaker meeting, and the Brooklyn Zen Center.