Boutique Advisory · Houston · Bogotá · Mexico City

Where energy
and water find
their footing.

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Alta Loma Advisors logo — water drop with mountain, lightning bolt and wave
HeadquartersHouston, TX
Latin AmericaBogotá, CO
Latin AmericaMexico City, MX
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Who we are

Alta Loma Advisors is a boutique advisory and origination firm built around two truths: capital is patient with the right teams, and operators are starved for the right capital.

We bridge that gap for early-stage and established companies across the energy and water sectors — and for landowners who want a serious partner to help commercialize what they have.

We help builders in energy and water raise capital, commercialize their offering, and assemble the supply chain to scale — from oilfield projects to municipal water and the powered land beneath it all.
Industries

Five sectors. One nexus.

Energy and water aren't separate industries — they're a single, interconnected system. Our team has spent careers operating across every layer of it.

i.

Oil & Gas

Upstream, midstream, and the produced-water nexus. We work with E&P operators, service companies, and technology developers across the energy value chain.

ii.

Minerals & Mining

From critical minerals to industrial extraction, we advise developers and resource owners on commercialization, technology selection, and capital pathways.

iii.

Powered Land Development

Helping landowners and developers monetize parcels with utility access, grid interconnection, and water rights — turning acreage into infrastructure.

iv.

Industrial & Municipal Water

Treatment, infrastructure, reuse, and produced-water management. Decades of operating expertise in the technologies and economics that make water projects work.

v.

Strategic Supply Chain

From turbines and long-lead equipment to specialty services — we facilitate procurement and supply chain pathways for projects that need to move quickly.

What we do

Three disciplines, integrated by design.

Most advisors do one thing. We do three — because origination, development, and technology are inseparable for the kind of projects we take on.

01 / Origination

Capital with conviction.

We help emerging companies access the capital they need — and help institutional investors find opportunities they otherwise wouldn't see. Our advisory work spans early growth equity through project finance.

What separates us is our network. Long-cultivated relationships with more than 100 institutional investment channel partners give us a real-time read on what each fund is actually deploying into — size, sector, stage. That's how we shorten the path from pitch to term sheet.

Capital raising Investor introductions Strategic advisory M&A support
02 / Development

From product to commercial reality.

Two flavors. First, we act as authorized commercial representatives for best-in-market technologies and services — bringing them into geographies and customer accounts where we have deep, existing relationships.

Second, we serve resource owners who need a third party to develop their position. That means aligning the right technology, the right off-takers, and the right capital to turn a static asset into a producing one. We are selective: we only take on engagements where our team has the conviction to win.

Sales representation Off-taker development Project structuring Land commercialization
03 / Technology Integration

Best-fit, not best-pitched.

Technology has to earn its place. We help operators evaluate, select, and deploy the right combination of solutions for a given application — drawing on our in-house portfolio and a wide bench of vetted external offerings.

Our approach is agnostic. We're paid to find the right answer, not the most expensive one. That posture is why our clients trust us with their hardest integration problems.

Technology evaluation Systems integration Vendor selection Pilot & deployment
The Alta Loma approach

A formula refined over a decade in the field.

Six tools. Five steps. One discipline: we only take on projects where we can credibly create success — for the client, the capital, and the customer.

01.

Market Development Experience

Our core team carries decades of combined operational experience across six continents — the lens that finds a real value proposition before pursuing it.

02.

Institutional Channel Network

Active relationships with 100+ investment partners, continuously tracked for fund size, sector preference, and live deployment activity.

03.

Potential Customer Database

Thousands of vetted entries spanning E&P operators, service firms, and collaboration partners — built from real engagements, not bought lists.

04.

Multi-disciplinary Team

Engineering, operations, sales, investment banking, and finance — assembled per engagement to fit the actual shape of the problem.

05.

Global Development Track Record

A history of introducing unconventional technologies into mature markets. That track record is the basis of our confidence — and our clients'.

06.

A Disciplined, Focused Approach

We accept engagements only when expertise, probability of success, available bandwidth, and mission alignment all check out. Quality over volume.

Process

From vetting to capital placement, in five disciplined steps.

Vet

We continuously evaluate emerging technologies and services in our markets, with a primary focus on the energy-water nexus.

Engage

Where there's fit, we structure flexible advisory agreements — origination, development, or representation — sized to the engagement.

Assemble

A dedicated, multi-disciplinary team is formed around the project's specific technical and commercial requirements.

Commercialize

We push into the commercial market, building the pipeline of customers, off-takers, and partners that anchors valuation.

Capitalize

With commercial traction in hand, we activate our institutional channel network to complete the development process.

Leadership

The people you'll actually work with.

At Alta Loma, the people in the pitch are the people on the project. No bait-and-switch.

Portrait of Justin M. Love
Founder & President

Justin M. Love

Justin is a serial operator and globally-recognized subject-matter expert in oilfield water management. He has founded and led three companies over the last decade — including Blackbuck Resources, where he built and operated water midstream infrastructure across the Permian Basin, and Xedia Process Solutions, focused on water treatment for challenging wastewater applications.

He began his career at Schlumberger, helped launch Pentair's global upstream water segment, and has spoken to industry audiences across nearly 30 countries on six continents. He earned his B.S. in Industrial & Systems Engineering from Virginia Tech, where he was inducted into the Academy of Distinguished Alumni.

Forty Under 40, Oil & Gas Investor ACG Houston Deal of the Year Virginia Tech, ISE
Portrait of Samuel Oliver
Managing Director

Samuel Oliver

Sam is the Managing Director of Alta Loma. He executes the firm's vision of delivering value-added advisory services to clients and channel partners alike, drawing on a deep blend of technical expertise, business development, and operational management.

He works across every active engagement, ensuring projects move from vetting through capitalization with the discipline and craft the firm is known for. His role is the connective tissue between Alta Loma's clients, its institutional partners, and its delivery teams.

Operations Business Development Project Delivery
Regional directors

On the ground, across the Americas.

Alta Loma's regional directors carry the firm's standard into Texas & the Mid-Continent, Colombia, and Mexico — closing the gap between investors, operators, and landowners in the markets where energy and water actually move.

Portrait of Juan Camilo Figueroa
Bogotá, Colombia

Juan Camilo Figueroa

Regional Director — Colombia

Based in Bogotá, Juan Camilo's career in oil & gas spans more than a decade, with several more years in the international industrial space. He has specific experience managing water treatment and other fluids services for Latin America's most important energy producers, and brings a long, successful history of sales-management and technical-application knowledge gathered on Colombia's most significant water projects.

Master's, Sales & Marketing Water Treatment LatAm
Portrait of Rodolfo Cervantes Espin
Mexico City, MX

Rodolfo Cervantes Espin

Regional Director — Mexico

Rodolfo runs LEA's Mexico practice from Mexico City. With years of experience managing industrial-services businesses serving both public and private sectors, he brings expertise across engineering, process, manufacturing, operations, and international project management. He focuses on developing business in Mexico, growing the ICP network, and identifying integrated technology and service projects. Bilingual in English and Spanish.

ITESM Monterrey NACE CIP II IMTA Certified
Mission & values

We measure ourselves by client outcomes.

Alta Loma exists to bring tangible success to operators in the energy and water sectors and to be a valuable, trusted asset to our channel partners. The principles below are non-negotiable.

i.

Client-first by construction

Our success is measured solely by the success of our clients and channel partners. There is no other scorecard.

ii.

Absolute ethicality

In every business and personal dealing. Hard-earned reputation, treated as the company's most valuable asset.

iii.

Health, safety, environment

Awareness of HSE outcomes is built into how we evaluate technology, capital partners, and our own operating culture.

iv.

Identity discipline

We adhere to who we are — boutique, focused, hands-on. We turn down work that doesn't fit, even when it's offered.

v.

Technology serves society

We believe in the betterment of society through technology — and in measurably lowering the environmental impact of energy production.

vi.

Profit, honestly earned

Sustainable profitability is the byproduct of doing all of the above well — not the starting point of how we operate.

Get in touch

Tell us what you're building.

Whether you're raising your next round, commercializing a new technology, monetizing land, or sourcing long-lead equipment — we'd like to hear about it.

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