Lattis Appoints Manuel Garza III as Partner and Head of North America Power

AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Lattis Management LP ("Lattis") today announced that Manuel ("Manny") Garza III will join the firm in March as a Partner and Head of its North America Power business.

Garza brings nearly 20 years of experience spanning both the utility and large commercial customer segments of the energy sector. He has held leadership roles at H-E-B Grocery Company, where he was key in the deployment of their distributed generation portfolio, as well as RPower and Austin Energy. He will focus on scaling Lattis' power infrastructure offering across the North American market.

"We're delighted to welcome Manny to Lattis," said Arjun Kapoor, Managing Partner and co-founder of Lattis. "Manny significantly deepens our capability to provide innovative bridging and backup power solutions for commercial and industrial customers, and to develop, operate, and maintain power infrastructure assets more broadly."

"Manny is an exceptionally talented developer with unique credibility with both utility partners and customers," said Casey Dwyer, Managing Partner and co-founder of Lattis. "We see a significant opportunity for solutions that work for both utilities and customers, and Manny significantly expands our ability to deliver on that vision."

“I’m excited to join Lattis and collaborate with a team that shares my outlook on approaching energy challenges with creativity and a forward-thinking mindset,” said Garza. “Having spent time on the customer side, I understand the importance of practical, innovative solutions that truly solve complex problems. I’m confident we’ll accomplish meaningful work together.”

Garza will continue to serve as CEO of MG3 Energy, his power infrastructure development and services platform, which will now operate with backing from Lattis. He will be based in Texas and lead Lattis' new office in Austin.

About Lattis

Lattis is an integrated middle-market infrastructure investor and commodity merchant. The firm combines infrastructure underwriting and structuring with trading and fundamental research across energy and commodity markets.

Lattis has offices in New York, London, and Austin.