Our Team

World class leadership in commodities and private markets, backed by high caliber team of investment and operational professionals

Casey Dwyer

Managing Partner

Arjun Kapoor

Managing Partner

Melissa Carnathan

President & Chief Operating Officer

Julia Elmgren

Partner, Carbon Investments

Sue Yang-Krochmal

Partner, Private Investments

Manny Garza

Partner, Power Development

Joshua Belo-Osagie

Energy Analyst, Research & Markets

Mauricio Mitidieri

Vice President, Private Markets

Jonathan Fisher-Hindle

Head of Trading Operations

Sofia Kelly Montoliu

Investor Relations & Compliance

Arjun Kapoor

Managing Partner, Private Investments

Arjun co-founded Lattis after 11 years at the Dell Family Office (previously MSD Capital) and MSD Partners LP. He was most recently Head of Direct Investments at the Dell Family Office. Arjun has led investments in transactions across the capital structure in private and public markets ranging from $10 million to $500 million. His experience includes communications infrastructure, transports, logistics, technology, industrials, energy, and real estate. Arjun’s expertise with bespoke, structured investments created opportunities to deploy capital at attractive risk-adjusted returns while also providing solutions tailored to entrepreneurs, sponsors, developers, and corporates.

Prior to MSD, Arjun was an Associate in the Institutional Equities division at Morgan Stanley. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa & summa cum laude from Columbia University with a BA in Mathematics and Economics-Operations Research. 

Casey Dwyer

Managing Partner, Research and Markets

Casey co-founded Lattis after 7 years with Andurand Capital as a Partner and Portfolio Manager. Casey has a successful track record of managing large commodity derivative and public equity portfolios across both traditional and new energy, and has deep experience in investment research and managing high-performing trading teams. In his last role at Andurand, Casey launched and co-managed the Andurand Climate and Energy Transition Fund (ACET), one of the top-performing energy transition funds in 2021 and winner of Eurohedge New Macro Fund of the Year in 2022.

Casey is a guest lecturer at Imperial Business school on the topic of energy and  has been interviewed about his expertise in energy transition in the Economist, Bloomberg, and the WSJ.

Prior to Andurand Capital, Casey spent six years at JPMorgan. He was a Private Equity Associate in the CIO office in New York and was an Associate and Analyst with J.P. Morgan Investment Bank in Sao Paulo. Casey has an MBA from the Wharton School and an MA in Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania (Lauder Institute). He received his BA in Economics and Political Science from Columbia University.

Sue Yang-Krochmal

Partner, Private Investments

Sue joined Lattis in Q4'24 from Antin Infrastructure Partners, where she built out their Next Gen team and led deal origination across energy transition, environmental services, digital infra, transport / logistics, and food / ag.

Sue brings 14 years of experience across private infrastructure and energy investing on >$1bn in transactions. She previously held investing roles at Orion Energy Partners and Macquarie Infrastructure & Real Assets, and was a management consultant focused on infrastructure and industrials at McKinsey.

Sue holds a BA from Columbia University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Julia Elmgren

Partner, Carbon Investments

Julia joined Lattis in Q4'24 from BP where she built and ran their proprietary trading desk for European/UK carbon. She has a strong track record managing large portfolios ($1bn) across product and exposure types, and was responsible for managing the firm’s European carbon compliance exposure.

Prior to BP, Julia worked at GM&T as their Head of Environmental Products, building a cross-functional team with global coverage of compliance and emerging emissions markets, and managing a 1GW portfolio of UK power generation assets.

Julia holds a BSc University of St Andrews and a MSc University of Edinburgh.

Melissa Carnathan

President & Chief Operating Officer

Melissa joined Lattis at its inception in mid-2024 to manage all of its non-investment activities. She has spent the past 20 years working extensively with alternative asset managers and global institutional investors, both in marketing advisory / cap raising and strategic operational management.

Melissa has acted in COO and business development roles for a number of buy side organizations, including as COO of Commodities World Capital, and in leadership and management roles within prime brokerage at J.P. Morgan, Merrill Lynch and UBS.

Melissa holds an MBA from INSEAD and a BA from the University of California, Berkeley.

Joshua Belo-Osagie

Energy Analyst, Research & Markets

Joshua joined Lattis in Q2’25 from Timera Energy, where he was a Senior Analyst focused on fundamental analysis of European gas and global LNG markets, and valuation of flexible energy assets to support trading, origination, and investment clients.

Prior to Timera, Joshua was a Senior Analyst at Maritime Strategies International, where he led research and econometric forecasting on infrastructure and vessel markets across global upstream oil & gas, and offshore wind value chains.

Joshua holds a BSc in Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology and a Certificate in Quantitative Finance (Fitch Learning).

 

Mauricio Mitidieri

Vice President, Private Markets

Mauricio joined Lattis in Q2’25 from Glenfarne, where he led investment structuring and market analysis for LNG, power generation, and energy infrastructure projects across the U.S. and Latin American markets.

He brings over a decade of experience in the energy and infrastructure sectors, with previous roles at Credit Suisse Investment Banking, IHS Markit (now S&P Global) as a market consultant, and in business development at Promon Engenharia, a leading Brazilian engineering firm.

Mauricio holds a BSc in Chemical Engineering and an MSc in Energy from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, and an MBA from NYU Stern School of Business.

Sofia Kelly Montoliu

Investor Relations & Compliance

Sofia joined Lattis in Q3’25 from Hamilton Lane, where she served as a Senior Compliance Officer. She has experience in US, European and Middle Eastern regulatory compliance, anti-money laundering, compliance advisory, strategic projects and fundraising.

She has over 7 years of experience in alternative asset management having held roles at Antin Infrastructure Partners and at Actis LLP, building expertise across investment management, regulatory frameworks and fund operations.

Sofia holds a BA in Politics with International Relations from the University of York and a Graduate Diploma in Law (GDL) from City Law School, University of London.

Jonathan Fisher-Hindle

Head of Trading Operations

Jonathan joined Lattis in Q3'25 as Head of Trading Operations from Sinclair Capital, where he served as Chief Operating Officer.

He has 15+ years of operational management experience across asset classes, markets, and fund structures, with deep expertise in financial regulations and fund accounting.

Prior to Sinclair Capital, Jonathan was Head of Operations and Senior Operations Analyst at Covalis Capital, and held senior operations roles at Horizon Asset and Aviva Investors, where he began his career as a Portfolio Analyst.

Manny Garza

Partner, Power Development

Manny joined Lattis in Q1 2026 to lead its power development work in the US. He was previously working as an external development partner for Lattis through his company, MG3 Energy.  Manny brings over 20 years of experience in energy program design and distributed energy with deep relationship in the space. Prior to setting up MG3 Energy, Manny spent eight years at Austin Energy where he led all aspects of demand side management for the commercial, small business and multi-family sectors.  Before this, Manny was at HEB Grocery for nine years, where he led their renewable energy program and created what became the first of its kind, ‘micro-grid’ to provide secure, back-up power to 100’s of H-E-B’s stores.

Manny has a Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the University of Texas at San Antonio.