Emily Medakovich is a compliance administrator on the compliance team where she is responsible for underwriting, asset management and performing due diligence.

Prior to joining the firm, she was a liability adjuster at Allstate Insurance and a Claims Specialist at Nationwide Insurance, where she investigated auto claims and evaluated total loss. Emily has also worked as a financial relationship specialist at Regions Bank and a paralegal at Karr & Sherman Co.

Emily received her bachelor’s degree in Anthropology from the Ohio State University where she graduated magna cum laude.

Anna Medley is an investment analyst at Advantage Capital. As a member of the investment team, she provides due diligence supports, helps underwrite new investments, and aids in growth initiatives at the firm’s portfolio companies.

Prior to joining Advantage Capital, Anna was a client service manager at Moneta Group Investment Advisors where she helped manage client’s portfolios.

Anna received her bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Saint Louis University.

Josh Mitchell is an Associate on our Partner Services team at Advantage Capital. Prior to his current role, Josh was a Senior Financial Analyst at Banker Tilly US, an Audit Associate at Van Houten & Associates, and an International Tax Associate at KPMG US.

Josh received his M.S. in Education and B.B.A in Accounting from Baylor University.

Arjun Mohan is a vice president at Advantage Capital. As a member of the firm’s investment team, he focuses on sourcing investments, performing due diligence, structuring transactions and portfolio management.

Prior to joining the firm, Arjun was a consultant on Deloitte Consulting’s Strategy & Analytics team. He assisted multiple Fortune 500 companies on engagements related to customer experience improvements, sales and distribution strategy and operational efficiencies.

Arjun received his MBA with honors from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and his bachelor’s degree in accounting and master’s in finance from Texas A&M University.

Sandra M. Moore is managing director and chief impact officer at Advantage Capital, a growth equity firm founded in 1992 with over $3.6 billion AUM.  The firm focuses on high growth and high wage business investing in communities where access to investment capital has historically been hard to find.  Sandra is a member of the Advantage Capital investment committee and a direct advisor to the diligence and structuring teams.

Sandra is also a member of the Advantage Capital fundraising team, which has brought in $225 million in capital during her four–year tenure. She has built the Advantage Capital Impact team, which creates data-driven initiatives to track and expedite portfolio growth, leads the communications and branding team and serves as the external-facing representative for Advantage Capital.

Prior to joining Advantage Capital, Sandra was the president of Urban Strategies, a national nonprofit corporation that works exclusively with for profit housing developers to rebuild distressed urban core communities using mix-finance, multi-family housing as the revitalization platform.

Sandra formerly served as the CEO of the Missouri Family Investment Trust, a public-private partnership entity leading Missouri’s multi-system reform efforts.  Prior to joining the Family Investment Trust, Sandra was senior vice president of St. Louis 2004, Inc., a region-wide effort, led by business, civic and political leaders, to transform the St. Louis regional economy and gear it for exponential growth in the 21st century.

She is the former director of the Missouri Department of Labor and Industrial Relations (DOLIR), where she served as a member of then Governor Mel Carnahan’s cabinet, and a former administrative judge with the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

Sandra is a graduate of Washington University in St. Louis, MO.  She received her J.D. from the School of Law and a bachelor’s degree in Urban Studies from the College of Arts and Sciences.

Sandra is committed to the growth, development and empowerment of people and the communities where they live.  She serves on several local and national boards and committees that work to strengthen the fiber of community, and she is a sought-after speaker and thought leader on these issues.

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Natalie Moretz is an affordable housing finance professional.  She is currently SVP, Investor Relations at Advantage Capital, where she is responsible for originating investor tax credit equity for the company’s Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) funds.  

Prior to joining Advantage Capital, Natalie held progressively senior roles at Berkadia Commercial Mortgage, AllianceBernstein, and Citigroup Global Markets.  In addition to her role at Advantage Capital, Natalie serves on the Board of Directors and Investment & Finance Committee of the Women's Fund of Central Ohio.  She has held board positions at a variety of organizations advocating for equality for women & girls and the LGBTQ community.  

Natalie holds an MPA from the University of Washington.  She also holds a BA from the University of Iowa, where she was a NCAA Division I medalist in women’s rowing.

Biography: Justin Motika is a Senior Vice President at Advantage Capital. He leads strategic impact integrations and related operations across the organization. Accordingly, he is responsible for impact measurement and management (IMM), management information systems (MIS), and impact research and innovations. Justin was previously a founding member of the data and impact teams. He also served on the national expansion team where he did economic research and worked with investors and policy makers promoting capital formation initiatives.

Prior to joining the firm, Justin lead the NYC Private Equity & Venture Capital research and strategic projects team for GLG.

Justin was a university honors program student and provost scholar at San Diego State University where he earned a Bachelor's degree in business administration with a concentration in finance.

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Brian Muller is an accounting manager at Advantage Capital. In this role, he is responsible for recording activity and preparing financial statements for several of the firm's entities.

Prior to joining the firm, Brian worked as a senior accountant for both Bourgeois Bennett, LLC and Carr, Riggs & Ingram, LLC. In this role, he performed audit procedures, including financial statement analysis and detailed testing of accounts at the trial balance and financial statement levels.

Brian received a bachelor's degree from the University of New Orleans, where he majored in business management, and a master's degree in business administration from Loyola University New Orleans. He is a certified public accountant.

Scott Murphy rejoined Advantage Capital as a managing director and the chief investment officer after serving in the United States Congress representing New York from 2009 to 2011. He previously worked at Advantage Capital from 2001 to 2009, overseeing the firm's $88 million New York portfolio. As chief investment officer, Scott oversees the firm’s entire portfolio.

Scott is an experienced venture capitalist and highly successful entrepreneur with a robust background in public service. Prior to his tenure at Advantage Capital, he co-founded three high-tech companies, including a game company that brought fantasy football and baseball to the Internet. He also founded an online auction company that was sold to eBay and a website building company that was sold to iXL. He earlier spent two years as a structured finance associate at Bankers Trust, where he focused on the insurance industry. In addition to his time in Congress, Scott previously served in the administrations of two Missouri governors.

Scott received his bachelor’s from Harvard College and has earned the right to use the Chartered Financial Analyst designation. As a former president of the Upstate Venture Association of New York, he maintains a strong commitment to civic affairs.

Katie Nath is an analyst on the Solar Development team at Advantage Capital. Within this group, she focuses on energy modeling, project layouts and other EPC due diligence. Prior to joining Advantage, Katie interned with Onyx Renewables as a Project Engineer on their Operations team.

Katie graduated from Williams College with a BA in Physics and Art History.

Johanna Neggie is an analyst at Advantage Capital. As a member of the investment team, Johanna is responsible for sourcing investments, performing due diligence, structuring transactions, and portfolio management.

Prior to joining Advantage, Johanna worked as an investment banking summer analyst at Credit Suisse within their Leveraged Finance Group and Bank of Montreal within their Financial Institutions Group.

Johanna received a BBA with a concentration in finance and minor in sustainability at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business.

Farah Neha is a project manager at Advantage Capital, where she supports the solar development team in all aspects of development, performs QA/QC and, support EPC workstream. Farah received her master's degree in Earth and Environmental Engineering from Columbia University and a bachelor's degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering from North South University.

Kyle Nesselbush is a senior associate at Advantage Capital, where he focuses on renewable energy tax equity investments.

Prior to joining Advantage Capital, Kyle worked at Monarch Private Capital as a senior associate, where he worked on sourcing, underwriting, and closing renewable energy investments.

Kyle received his MBA from Washington University in St. Louis with an emphasis in finance and a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering with a minor in mathematics from the University of Missouri - Columbia.

Quang Anh (QA) Nguyen is an analyst at Advantage Capital. As a member of the renewable energy investment team, QA focuses on structuring and executing investments, portfolio management, and sourcing investments.

Prior to joining Advantage Capital, QA interned at a private equity in Singapore.

QA received his bachelor's degree from Vanderbilt University, where he double majored in Biomedical and Electrical Engineering and minored in Business.

Austin Nichols is an assistant accounting manager at Advantage Capital on the firm's accounting team.

Prior to joining Advantage Capital, Austin worked at Ochsner Health as a senior accountant on their financial accounting team where he focused on shared services.

In addition to his role at Advantage Capital, Austin loves cheering on the local sports teams such as the Saints, Pelicans, and LSU Tigers. He also loves to coach and support his children in all their extracurricular activities.

Austin received his Accounting Degree from the University of New Orleans and is a State Board Certified Public Accountant.

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Colin Nickells is an associate on Advantage Capital's expansion team where he focuses on affordable housing, economic development, public policy, and public finance initiatives at the state and local levels.

Colin most recently served as the 9% Low-Income Housing Tax Credit program manager at the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs (TDHCA), where he oversaw the allocation of more than $1.6 billion in tax credits. He previously served as TDHCA's senior policy analyst, and in various roles at the Texas General Land Office managing special projects related to Community Development Block Grant programs for disaster recovery and mitigation. In 2022, Colin was appointed to serve as a commissioner on the City of Austin Environmental Commission.

Colin received his Master of Arts degree with concentrations international economics and political economy from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, and his bachelor’s degree, magna cum laude, from the University of North Texas.

Kari Niermann is a senior vice president on the investment team where she focuses on portfolio management, seeks new investment opportunities and interacts with portfolio companies to assess their current and future capital needs.  

Prior to joining Advantage Capital, Kari served as an assistant vice president in the Leveraged Finance Group at U.S. Bank, where she was responsible for analyzing, underwriting and assisting in the structuring of syndicated leveraged senior debt transactions for business mergers and acquisitions, recapitalizations and capital expenditure purchases, as well as the management of a $350 million portfolio comprised of more than 20 clients. Earlier in her career, Kari worked as a commercial banking officer for BMO Harris, formerly Southwest Bank, where she managed a $25 million middle market portfolio of clients in a wide range of industries within the commercial and industrial sector.

Kari received her bachelor’s degree in business administration with a concentration in finance from Saint Louis University.

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Sonny Nunes, vice president and tax counsel, is involved in all aspects of the firm’s tax credit syndication practice, tax planning, and entity structuring and restructuring.  He is an experienced tax attorney with experience as a private practitioner and in-house counsel.  

Prior to joining the firm, Sonny was a partner in the law firm of Jones, Walker where he served a diverse client base as a trusted tax advisor.  After leaving Jones, Walker, Sonny spent a time with KPMG’s M&A tax group in New York and then served as vice president, tax counsel at American Express Company.

Sonny received an LL.M with a concentration in tax from New York University, a J.D. from Tulane Law School, and a BBA with a concentration in accounting from the University of Notre Dame.

Justin Obletz is a managing director and chief financial officer at Advantage Capital, based in the New Orleans office. In his role, Justin manages the accounting, tax, and financial planning & analysis functions of the firm. Prior to his role as chief financial officer, Justin was a member of the investment team. He is an experienced multi-stage investor, having worked across the firm’s investment programs to evaluate and structure transactions, as well as monitor portfolio company investments. He currently serves on the board of directors of TurboSquid, Lamm Food Service and the Louisiana Technology Fund.

Prior to joining Advantage Capital, Justin worked in the New Ventures division of Trader Publishing Company in various strategic and operational roles. He began his professional career in the Assurance and Advisory Business Services group at Ernst & Young.

Justin received his MBA from the Darden School at the University of Virginia and a bachelor’s degree in accountancy from the University of Notre Dame. He is a certified public accountant (inactive).

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Sam Peacock is a sourcing analyst on the investment team at Advantage Capital. He is responsible for sourcing investments and providing due diligence support.

Sam received his bachelor's degree in economics and statistics from St. Lawrence University.

Mary Perren is a community relations specialist at Advantage Capital where she works to engage and promote community relations and opportunities.

Prior to joining Advantage Capital, Mary worked at the Starke County Economic Development Foundation as an executive assistant. In that role she oversaw the annual Starke Tank Countywide Small Business Pitch Competition and assisted with various business growth, retention, and development projects. Perren is an avid animal lover who serves on the Starke County Humane Society Board of Directors. She holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Indianapolis.

Tim Perusek is a principal at Advantage Capital. As a member of the Investment group, he is responsible for sourcing, due diligence and valuation analysis of current and prospective investments. Tim supports the firm’s Southeast investment footprint.

Tim joins us most recently from SunTrust, where he served as a senior vice president in the Corporate Finance Specialty Group. Prior to SunTrust, he spent 27 years at GE Capital, working in a variety of corporate finance roles including regional management, business development and underwriting and credit.

Tim holds a bachelor’s degree in finance from the University of Florida.

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Keith Pettus is a tax credit equity veteran with more than a decade of experience sourcing and structuring investment opportunities. As a principal on the Advantage Capital Renewable’s Capital Markets team, he will focus on sourcing new, and expanding existing, investor relations.

Prior to joining Advantage Capital, Keith spent more than five years with JP Morgan Chase building out its market leading Historic Tax Credit Equity platform.

Keith received his bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering from Lehigh University and is a CFA and CAIA Charterholder.

Nicole Pilié is the director of program compliance at Advantage Capital. As a member of the government-guaranteed lending team, she primarily focuses on the determination, management and reporting of New Market Tax Credit compliance guidelines.

Prior to joining the firm, Nicole served as a third-party liability adjuster with Hanover Insurance Group.

She holds a bachelor’s degree in history with a minor in psychology from the University of New Orleans.

Ginny Plumeau, is a senior manager of environmental services here she handles the technical approaches and oversight of environmental due diligence related to siting and permitting for solar development projects.

Ginny is a Registered Environmental Manager (REM) with extensive project and leadership experience as a business owner and consultant.  Ginny has extensive technical and management experience in environmental consulting for renewables and other development projects nationwide. Prior to joining Advantage Capital, Ginny served as Senior Environmental Manager for Cypress Creek Renewables, supporting diligence requirements for planned solar projects in the Midwest.  

Ginny has a M.S. Ecology from Rutgers University; B.A. Zoology, A.A.S. Science Laboratory Technology - SUNY

Leslie Powell is vice president of the syndication asset management team. With a strong background in affordable housing financing, his responsibilities include overseeing the asset management function and managing the syndication asset portfolio to ensure activities align with the firm's and business unit's risk appetite and risk management framework.

Prior to joining Advantage Capital, Leslie held positions in underwriting and asset management within PNC Bank's Real Estate Tax Credit Solutions division. In his asset management roles, Leslie managed a large portfolio of LIHTC investments throughout the country and was responsible for the continuous evaluation of investments. In his underwriting roles, Leslie was responsible for understanding complex financial and tax issues related to Section 42 of the IRS Tax Code as well as analyzed transaction structures and key principles of affordable housing projects to make recommendations regarding the suitability of projects for syndication or acquisition by the bank.

Leslie holds an MBA from Bellarmine University and bachelor's degree in finance from North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University. In addition, Leslie earned a certificate in accounting from the University of Louisville.

Ben Prevallet is an Analyst for Advantage Capital. As a member of the syndication team, he is responsible for asset management of affordable properties within the company’s portfolio.

Prior to joining Advantage Capital, Ben worked in commercial lending at Busey Bank. With over 10 years of expertise in banking, tax compliance and finance, including roles as Senior Business Taxes Representative for the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration and Auditor for the Missouri State Auditor's Office.

Ben received his bachelor's degree in Entertainment Management at Missouri State University.

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Damon Rawie is a seasoned investor and managing director at Advantage Capital. Based in Austin, Damon heads the firm’s overall equity investment operations. In this role, his responsibilities include managing members of the firm’s investment group and coordinating Advantage Capital’s equity investment strategies. In addition, Damon is an active multi-stage investor for the firm. He evaluates potential investments, performs due diligence and structures transactions. His investment experience covers a variety of industries including new media, business services, software and energy technology.

Damon provides administrative, financial and strategic planning support to Advantage Capital portfolio companies, and he serves as a member of the board of directors for a number of the firm’s portfolio companies. He is also a board member of the Texas Coalition for Capital, a non-profit statewide organization that supports various economic development initiatives including job creation and access to capital for emerging businesses.

Prior to joining Advantage Capital, Damon worked in investment banking and operational consulting. He was a manager at China International Capital Corporation (CICC), a Morgan Stanley/China Construction Bank joint venture investment bank in Beijing. Before working with CICC, Damon was a management consultant at Price Waterhouse and an investment banking analyst at J.P. Morgan Securities.

Damon holds an MBA from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business and a bachelor’s degree from Wesleyan University.

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George Revock is an associate at Advantage Capital. As a member of the solar investment team, George focuses on sourcing investments, performing due diligence, structuring transactions and portfolio management.

Prior to joining Advantage Capital, George worked for CohnReznick Capital, where he focused on financial structuring and modeling, due diligence, and transaction management for solar, wind, and battery storage project finance and M&A transactions.

George received his bachelor's degree in business administration with a concentration in finance from the Robins School of Business at the University of Richmond.

Loren Richard is an accounts payable manager at Advantage Capital, where she assists with various duties for the firm's accounting team.

Prior to joining Advantage Capital, Loren worked at Brock Services, LLC as an accounting billing clerk, where she supported the project managers with creating monthly invoices generated for the work done on projects in the southern region.

In addition to her role at Advantage Capital, Loren enjoys crafting, baking homemade dog treats, and most importantly, being a great mother to her son Nicholas.

Loren received her bachelor’s degree in business management with a minor in business administration from Xavier University of Louisiana.