Management Team

Eric Manlunas |

Eric is the Founder and Managing Director of Frontera Group, LLC, a boutique venture capital firm focused on investing in early-stage emerging companies.  He also previously served in a concurrent capacity as a Partner of a Los Angeles-based value hedge fund until mid-2006.  Eric is a two-time start-up veteran turned venture capitalist with a strong passion for early-stage investing.  Eric has a proven track record as a direct investor in about three dozen early-stage ventures of which half remain active in Frontera's current investment portfolio.  Additionally, those companies have received in aggregate over $500m in capital.

Prior to Frontera, Eric was the Founder and Chairman of SITESTAR; a publicly traded technology company focused on the consolidation of independently owned Internet service providers in the rural markets of the mid-Atlantic region of the US.  During his tenure from mid-1999 to Oct 2002, Sitestar became one of the largest independent ISPs in the region.  Prior to that, Eric's first start-up was INTERFOODS, a specialty foods venture he founded in early-1997 focused on the consolidation of small independently owned specialty foods providers in the southern California region.  During Eric's tenure from early-1997 to mid-1999, Interfoods grew to become a mid-sized specialty foods provider in its market.

Eric started his career as a consulting associate with Arthur Andersen’s retail management consulting division from 1991-1995.  Eric earned an M.B.A from Pepperdine University in 1995 and a B.S. in Communications from Florida International University in 1990.  He's currently a member of the board of a number of emerging companies and has previously served as board member in over half a dozen ventures.

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