LANCE ISADORE A. MARTINEZ

Director, Head of Corporate Operations, Southeast Asia

Lance Martinez is a 20-year banking and telecommunication executive managing service operations, credit operations, technology and change management projects. Lance began his career with Citibank Philippines and was exposed to various aspects of the Citibank consumer business.

In 2002, Lance worked at Globe Telecom where he headed the Customer Service group. In 2008, Lance returned to banking at HSBC as Senior Vice President and served as  HSBC’s Director to the Bancnet board for several years. Lance graduated from the Ateneo De Manila University and has an MBA from the Asian Institute of Management (scholarship grant from Citibank NA).

Lance works with ALTUS as Head of Process Management and Operations across its platforms.

RICHARD NG

Director, Business Development, Southeast Asia

Richard is part of ALTUS’ Business Development and Strategic team responsible primarily for new business development and relationship management in Indonesia and Vietnam. He has 18 years of experience in banking covering treasury and capital market sales and origination, client coverage, private debt financing, and M&A with Deutsche Bank, Nomura, and major shipping banks.

He graduated with a Bachelor of Business Degree with Honours at Nanyang Technological University, specializing in Financial Analysis.

Director, Investments, Southeast Asia

Daven Patel is a seasoned finance and real estate professional with more than 15 years of experience sourcing, structuring, and analyzing investments across the US and Asia Pacific. He has worked in the treasury function handling capital funding and finance management, special situations team analyzing distressed credit and non-performing loans secured by real estate, and the real estate team, sourcing and investing in opportunistic assets at Bank of America-Merrill Lynch for over 12 years.

He also acts as a Director for a US-based family office focusing on hospitality and residential real estate investments. Daven graduated with Honors from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and is a CFA charter holder.

Daven leads the analysis and execution of ALTUS’ investments across the region.

Founder, CEO

Pavan is the Founder and CEO of ALTUS Capital and ALTUS Capital Partners.

Over the last 13 years, Pavan has made ALTUS the go-to source in the region for the origination, underwriting, structuring and management of highly illiquid investments in the corporate, small and medium enterprise (SME), and Real Estate sectors, leading to over USD 850 million in disbursements and capital recovery on behalf of institutional investors including investment banks, funds and development finance institutions.

Pavan holds a Bachelor’s degree from De La Salle University in the Philippines, majoring in Management of Financial Institutions.

Co-Founder, Chairman, Philippine Country Officer

Ben is the Co-founder and Chairman of Altus Capital.

His professional career started in global banking with 25 years of experience accumulated from Philadelphia National Bank (7 years) in the United States, National Westminster Bank in the US and Europe (3 years), then culminating with Bank of Boston (15 years) where he was the CEO & Country Manager in the Philippines.

He also became Chief Executive of a Philippine commercial bank, Boston Bank of the Philippines in 1987, which he acquired from the Corazon Aquino Administration in one of the first and largest debt-equity transactions. Besides being the youngest Chief Executive of a Philippine commercial bank, he was also twice Chairman of the Offshore Bankers’ Association.

Director, Business Development, Philippines

Marty is part of ALTUS’ Business Development and Strategic team, tasked with originating and executing M&A opportunities and fundraising transactions for ALTUS and its partners. Marty has over 15 years of extensive banking experience having headed client coverage, treasury sales and debt capital markets origination for Deutsche Bank (HK, Manila).

Throughout his banking career with Deutsche Bank, Barclays Capital (HK) and Nomura (HK), Marty built an extensive network of relationships within the public and private sectors, as well as the financial industry in the Philippines, Hong Kong and Singapore. Marty holds a B.S. Management Engineering degree from Ateneo de Manila University, and an MBA from Carnegie Mellon University.