CHARLES MAUTZ
Managing Member and CIO
As founder and Managing Member, Mr. Mautz leads CHAM’s strategy and activities. He also oversees all investment activities including research, allocation and manager selection. Under Mr. Mautz’s leadership, one or more of CHAM’s funds have achieved top ten global FoHF performance rankings in nine of its twelve years.
From 2005 to 2008, Mr. Mautz was a Managing Partner at an emerging growth company accelerator and a Managing Director at Aequitas Capital Management, where he led the firm’s efforts to form new fund products and oversaw its fund management activities. Prior to 2004, Mr. Mautz held various strategic, financial and M&A roles in Los Angeles and New York. From 1999–2004 he was in charge of strategy and M&A at CMS, a leader in financial research distribution. While at CMS, he played an integral role in their expansion into Europe (via acquisition) and Asia. Prior to CMS, Mr. Mautz oversaw subsidiaries and identified new acquisition opportunities for a $1.8 billion division of Itochu, a leading Japanese trading company. Mr. Mautz is a 1989 cum laude graduate of Harvard University.