Joe Manko

Mr. Manko has been the Senior Principal in Horton Capital Management LLC, the investment manager for the Horton Capital Partners Fund, LP (“Horton Fund”) since 2013.  Mr. Manko has over 20 years of investment experience in the asset management, investment banking, private equity and corporate securities markets.  From 2005 to 2010, Mr. Manko was a Partner and Chief Executive Officer of Switzerland-based BZ Fund Management Limited, where he was responsible for corporate finance, private equity investments, three public equity funds and the firm’s Special Situations and Event-Driven strategies.  Prior to that, Mr. Manko was a Managing Director with Deutsche Bank in London.  

He began his investment banking career at Merrill Lynch as a Vice President in Hong Kong and prior to that, Mr. Manko was a corporate finance attorney at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP.

Mr. Manko has served on the board of several companies in the bio-pharmaceutical industry and has advised numerous companies in the healthcare and technology industries and currently serves as a director of Safeguard Scientifics, Inc., Moxe Health Corporation and Koru Medical Systems, Inc. Mr. Manko has also served on the board of directors of One Stop Systems, Inc., Wireless Telecom Group, Inc., and Creative Realities, Inc.

Mr. Manko earned both his B.A. and Juris Doctor from the University of Pennsylvania.