Legacy
Natural Capital Investments for Generational Wealth
Since 1848
A Big Vision to Preserve
Localized Ownership
Food Security
Energy Sustainability
Conservation Natural Resources
National Presence
Meet the Team
Two Family Traditions. One Shared Vision. 13 Generations of Value Creation.
Guided by a Faith Centric Ethos
BASED IN
Ohio
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Sponsor | Capital Advisory
Ohio Entrepreneur, 6-Generation Ag Business
Kyle sees "investing as a way of life" and brings a passion for sponsorship in critical industries. The Roth family in Ohio has farmed the land for 6 generations; through the early settlement forestry period of the 19th century and as a leading early adopter of the steam engine plow to create a pre-imminent region of prime farmland. Today they focus on sustainable row-crop models and tech innovation.
Kyle is the Founder of Roth Advisory, a firm which provides capital and support to a growing footprint of global entrepreneurs through advocacy and leadership. His communication passion and courage to lean-into uncertainty, has fostered a portfolio of companies to fund and launch their ventures. He also serves as a board member of Dream Forward, a faith based entrepreneurial network, and speaks regularly to the next generation of leaders as he leads the Consortium's Mentoring Program.
He is an optimist who leans into business model renewal having seen his own family adapt and expand across the generations due to breakthroughs in technology and infrastructure - which ultimately created an improved way of life for their communities. A strong advocate for localized legacy, he continues to contribute his leadership and co-sponsor alongside those who seek to create noble opportunities for generational legacy; be it through Land Use, Manufacturing and Mobility.
An alum of Ohio Wesleyan University, Kyle’s classical training is applied mathematics and economic management. He went on to study leadership and public speaking through a seminary institute which enabled his non-profit work in LATAM/Africa missions (orphan care, medical clinics) and church planting. More recently, he studied at the University of Cambridge Judge School of Business in an executive cohort focused on capital market vehicles and fundraising within venture capital and private equity.
BASED IN
Arizona
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Sponsor | Asset Management
Arizona Rancher, 7-Generation Landowner
Bill sees sustainable investing as a harmonious blend of profit and purpose oriented initiatives. Profit brings durability and purpose brings significance for the next generation. This pairing has led to his own family’s allocation of resources across projects which foster equity in localized ownership of natural capital ventures with impactful contributions to fostering conservancy ideals. The Reed family has a generational heritage from the 1800s across both Farming and Ranching as well as Power and Energy investment.
Bill is an active entrepreneur/co-investor, and serves as the Founder of Western Farm Management Services. He brings 30+ years experience in providing active and engaged “boots on the ground” management/executive level leadership in the agriculture and natural resource industry. His management philosophy impacts multiple 100s of thousands of acres in troubled business assets (turnarounds, restarts, restricting, and disposals), agriculture and natural resource acquisitions and asset development, and asset portfolio management.
He is a seasoned executive who amplifies his fiduciary as “the promise maker and the promise keeper” in the natural resource arena. His leadership reputation as a problem solver has given him a vast network of peer stakeholders; amongst other board positions, Bill holds a national recognition (as one of only 32 dual-certified AAC/AFM leaders) within the American Society Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers (ASFMRA). His passion for impact continues through his family’s vision for the creation of sanctuary rangelands for wild horses alongside equitable family access for esoteric land investing.
An alum of Texas A&M University, Bill’s education is in Agricultural Economics followed by a masters program in Land Economics and Real Estate. Experiencing business finance firsthand through a period of International commodity trading and then returned to production agriculture to re-engage his core family ethos. Today, his perspective informs a new approach for creating aligned equitable access and liquidity for his peers while upholding integrity with capital partners as the Emissary to investments in Natural Capital.
• Accredited Farm Manager (AFM) is a designation awarded by the American Society of Farm Managers & Rural Appraisers (ASFMRA)
• Accredited Agricultural Consultant (AAC) is a designation awarded by the American Society of Farm Managers & Rural Appraisers (ASFMRA)
• Accredited Land Consultant (ALC) is a designation awarded by the National Association of Realtors©
• Certified Crop Advisor-Sustainability Specialist (CCA-SSp) is a designation awarded by the American Society of Agronomy
Our Portfolio
Our Story
Preserving - Protecting
Ownership
Food
Energy
Conservation
The founders of Roth Capital embody a legacy of leadership within the investment and natural resource sectors, driven by a profound connection to 6+ generation multi-family operations in farming and natural resources. Their collective expertise, forged through extensive educational and professional backgrounds in business finance and investment markets, reflects a commitment to excellence and adaptation with business model pivots, while holding onto a deep sense of purposeful give-back. Distinctly unique from the money manager intermediaries, we buy, hold and enhance as a stewardship authority who has lived and breathed it all.
Bound by a shared ethos of integrity, the founders are impassioned by the desire to leave a lasting positive impact in all their endeavors. At the heart of Roth Capital’s mission is the creation and sponsorship of a premier investment platform, Legacy Global Investments (LGI). Roth Capital responds to the plea of discerning investors seeking access to high-performing opportunities within the natural capital sector. The existing market’s exclusivity of such investments is a problem and has, in turn, resulted in disassociated management of landowning stakeholders; and often misaligned with the best interests of investors in terms of fees and performance structures.
In answer to these challenges, Roth Capital, through the LGI investment platform, is poised to revolutionize the landscape by providing fair access to a diverse array of themed investment silos. These include farmland, ranch and pasture, timber, mineral, water, and renewable energy development. Rigorous sourcing and analysis of assets will be conducted by leading natural resource experts, ensuring a thorough understanding of each silo. The experience and leadership of our managers provides a competitive edge in the natural capital asset market.
Crucially, each investment backed by Roth Capital will be actively managed by localized experts with a vested interest in the success of the underlying assets. Co-investment and joint ventures with other portfolio managers serves to further de-risk projects. Investors will benefit from a diversified, performance oriented structure with transparent terms, while unique strategies for liquidity and value enhancement will be systematically developed.
With the help of like-minded national partners, LGI emerges as a true investment vehicle, providing an opportunity for investors to acquire, participate in, build, and hold institutional-quality legacy assets. These opportunities, previously exclusive to institutions and the ultra-wealthy, are now within reach of the more common landowner, marking a paradigm shift in the management of natural capital investments.
A Mission
Promises Made - Promises Kept
Clarity
Simplicity
Performance
We are “leading the way” forward with a new vehicle for ownership - by dismantling the barriers that have traditionally restricted qualified investors from accessing “institutional-grade” investments within the natural capital asset class. We ensure a layered-use efficient profit horizon which keeps asset-rich landowners in strong cash positions to keep national assets online for downstream portfolio needs. Our conviction is that natural capital asset class performs on a risk adjusted basis better than any other asset class (when you are patient and wise in your methods vs chasing fads).
We recognize the growing disparity and confusion surrounding fund managers and their labyrinth of asset management fee structures and performance models. Our commitment is to alleviate this complexity through the simplification of investment processes, fostering a framework of aligned interests between investors and managers.
By tearing down barriers and fostering transparency, we aim to open access to high-quality natural capital investments, inject needed liquidity to market landowners, and usher in an attractive era of upside participation and capital preservation for our investors.
With the right stakeholders “pooling together” their interests in an attractive model, we align national ownership to keep high-value land online, protecting our food, energy and natural resource entitlements for the next generation.
Join us in reshaping the future of land investment.