About Jose Paul Martin (aka JPMartin or JPM)

Need an investment banker you can trust to help you raise private equity or venture capital, get the best value for your company and enhance your business operationally? Jose Paul Martin gives you all that and more…

Investment Banker. Private Equity Professional. Venture Capitalist.

Long before these titles became popular, there were a breed of bankers that were true to the spirit of banking – The Merchant Banker. Today we call ourselves private equity deal makers. But you can think of me as an alchemist, a person who likes to mix and match the financial needs of the cautious investor with those of the free-spirited entrepreneur, helping both grow faster and further.

Being Indian…

You had two career choices – engineering or medicine. I took neither. After seeing my dad work day and night to help patients, I realized that I couldn’t be as great or committed to the medical profession as he was. This lead to the biggest discovery of my own – business.

1 Decade. 2 Careers.

As a result, the first half of the decade was being a management consultant, trying to solve problems for others – definitely a good business to be in. What I learned… Knowledge is queen! structure, measure and manage. That’s all you need to know. I gained from the best practices of Andersen, Ernst & Young and BDO, the exposure to international clientele, international knowledge, international team mates is really worth every minute. And as a management consultant, helped large and small organizations; strategize and improve their operations from Finance, IT and HR to complete business process re-engineering and later to fund raising and corporate advisory. This is rare operational expertise, across a broad industry base.

Then came the next phase, using my knowledge of advising businesses and my operational expertise, I decided to join a private equity house where I could help people who wanted to invest in good businesses and grow them. The second half of the decade was being a deal maker, dealing with the biggest problem for all businesses – cash – the life blood of an organization. You see, being entrepreneurial, and having failed at some small ventures, I began to see the need for money to run a business, and that being a banker could help… what I learned… Cash is king. And that is where I am today – private equity and venture capital. But that cash is not enough. There’s more…

To Be Continued…

The story doesn’t end here, being a top deal maker requires you to combine a unique set of skills. You have to be part-master relationship builder (to source and originate deals), part-legal eagle (to close and execute agreements), part-financial wizard (to build financial and operating models) and part-management consultant (to add value to the portfolio company). As a result, my mission statement for now is:

Building bridges between financiers (people who have money) and founders (businesses that need money), and growing them by adding value (with internal and external specialists).

If you’d like to learn more about how I can help you, contact me using this form or at the coordinates below and I’d be happy to work with you.

Jose Paul Martin
Director, Private Equity & Financial Advisory Services
Venture Capital Bank
Venture Capital Bank Building, P.O.Box 11755
Diplomatic Area, Manama, Kingdom of Bahrain

E: jpm@jpm.cc
M: (+973) 39983350