Monika Mantilla

The firm plays a pivotal role in developing an ecosystem of entrepreneurs, investors, advisors and corporations working together to harness opportunities and build value. Led by a team with vast collective experience in private equity, private debt, and company building, Altura teams up with institutional investors, entrepreneurs, corporations, and accomplished executives to cultivate scalable enterprises by providing them with private credit and private equity and a specialized growth toolkit. Altura’s purpose is to transform and improve societies through enabling entrepreneurial success. Altura adds value to its portfolio companies and supports their growth through a systematic value add model, which includes pairing them with Executive Operating Partners and Advisors, and helping them develop unique competitive advantages and preferred partnerships with leading corporations across America. Altura specializes in the U.S. small and lower-middle markets with an emphasis on investments located in low- and moderate-income (LMI) communities, those with diverse ownership, and those that create high quality jobs. Altura focuses on consumer products, business services, specialty manufacturing, and healthcare industries.

In her 30-plus year career, Monika has focused on building solid institutional products that deliver above market investment returns along with economic and social impact to communities. Monika has won numerous awards and recognitions for her work building financial capacity and strong, scalable businesses in minority and underserved communities. In multiple years, Latino Leaders Magazine recognized her as one of the 101 Most Influential Leaders in Hispanic U.S.A. and one of the Top 15 Latinos in Finance. In 2010 she became the first Latina to ever receive the Hispanic Heritage Foundation Award in Business, the highest honor for Latinos by Latinos.

Monika is a trusted advisor to many CEOs, corporations, industry and civic leaders and government agencies, through which she lives her deep belief in the power of collaboration to build stronger communities and companies.

Prior to Altura she held leadership positions in investment management consulting and investment banking firms, and had a 9-year corporate career in international logistics, including P&L responsibility and senior roles in operations, finance and marketing, as well as corporate lawyer.

Monika sits on the board of directors for companies including Cidrines, AVS, Rocket Health Partners and Coastal Painting. She also serves on the boards of the Stanford Latino Entrepreneurship Initiative (SLEI), where she teaches a capital seminar; the Hispanic Heritage Foundation; the USHCC Educational Fund Foundation, which she chairs; and serves as a Capital Advisor to the Billion Dollar Roundtable. She is a fellow member of the Aspen Latinos in Society program and the author of a chapter in the book “Advancing U.S. Latino Entrepreneurship.”

She has an MBA from Columbia Business School in New York and a J.D. from the Universidad del Rosario in Bogotá, Colombia.