Our Team

Alan Frelix and Marvin Bantugan are the co-founders and managing partners of Nexturn Capital. Both bring a diverse set of skills and experiences to Nexturn Capital including a combined 18 years of experience in financial services, 12 years management consulting experience and executive-level experience in Fortune 100 level and entrepreneurial ventures.

Alan and Marvin possess relevant experience in strategic planning and analysis, business process improvement, change management, performance management, organizational development, business development and customer satisfaction. In their careers and in their personal lives, each has demonstrated a commitment to integrity, hard work and achievement.

Alan Frelix. Alan is a Managing Partner of Nexturn Capital. Alan has spent nearly 20 years helping companies define and achieve strategies, while building the necessary infrastructure to sustain success.

Alan is the also the founder and President of The Frelix Group, a boutique business development and consulting company specializing in providing growth-oriented small- to mid-sized firms with strategic counsel in the areas of business planning, strategy development, change and performance management, operational improvement and organizational development.

Prior to launching The Frelix Group, Alan served as the Managing Director of Strategic Planning for a Fortune 100 Financial Services company. In this role, he oversaw the company’s corporate and divisional strategic planning processes, strategic research and analysis, identification of strategic and operational risks, and recommendation of growth and mitigation strategies. Alan worked closely with company’s top executives as the firm grew from a $3 billion company when he joined, to a $20 billion company when he left to form The Frelix Group. Alan has worked in such diverse industries as financial services, entertainment, education, telecommunications and consumer products.

Alan has also provided consulting services to minority businesses as a senior consultant at the Minority Enterprise Growth Assistance Center (MEGA) Center, a project funded by the U.S. Department of Congress, worked with entrepreneurs through community-based technical assistance programs, and has been an entrepreneur himself.

Alan earned his bachelor’s degree in sociology from the University of California, Santa Barbara and holds an MBA from the University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business.

Marvin Bantugan.  Marvin is a Managing Partner of Nexturn Capital. He has over 15 years of experience in consulting, operations, process improvement and technology management. Prior to launching Nexturn Capital, Marvin served as Executive Vice President with a Fortune 100 Financial Services company and was responsible for their enterprise-wide customer satisfaction initiative and internal consulting group focused on process improvements. Under his direction, the company’s customer satisfaction initiative resulted in a 14 percent increase in customer satisfaction and an additional $168 million in net profitability. In addition, Marvin helped create and led an internal consulting organization focused on the identification and delivery of operational efficiency, increasing revenue, and reducing costs through Six Sigma based process re-engineering, technology implementations, and project management. This enterprise-wide initiative reduced operating costs an estimated $70 million annually.

Prior to his success at the financial services company, Marvin had P&L responsibility for the western region of a technology consulting start-up company, @stake. He was responsible for expanding the client-base by 200%, and growing revenue by 400%. Prior to @stake, Marvin was a Senior Manager with Deloitte & Touche LLP where he led the delivery of large consulting projects to Fortune 500 companies, including business process re-engineering, technology implementations, and continuous improvement.

Marvin earned a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of California, Irvine and holds an MBA from the Columbia University School of Business.