Edward Markman

Edward Markman is the Partner, Chief Financial Officer, and Chief Compliance Officer at Sun Mountain Capital, a Santa Fe, New Mexico–based investment partnership formed in 2006 by senior private equity professionals. As CFO/CCO he oversees the firm's finance, fund accounting, reporting, and regulatory compliance functions rather than sourcing deals directly — a back-office and operational leadership role rather than a founder-facing investing role. He is a licensed Certified Public Accountant in New Mexico and brings roughly two decades of experience spanning the investment industry and public accounting.

Before joining Sun Mountain, Markman spent over 15 years at Ziff Brothers Investments ("ZBI") in New York, where he rose to Vice President of Accounting and helped oversee a team of roughly forty people handling the accounting, reporting, and back-office operations of the firm's multi-strategy investment portfolios. Earlier in his career he worked at Sony Corporation of America and began as an auditor with Price Waterhouse. He holds a Bachelor of Science from the University of Hartford.

At Sun Mountain, Markman sits alongside the firm's investing leadership — including Managing Partner Brian Birk and Partner Sally Corning — supporting a platform that deploys capital across direct equity, private credit, pooled fund programs, and customized regional investment solutions, much of it in partnership with the New Mexico State Investment Council (SIC).

Note on current status: The firm's 2026 team page lists Reed Soehnel as CFO & CCO, which suggests Markman's role may have transitioned; some aggregator data also associates him with a CFO role at a firm listed as "Kbit." Founders should confirm his current title directly before reaching out.

• Sun Mountain invests across the full lifecycle — "from early-stage Seed and Series A through expansion stage growth companies" — using a hybrid model of direct equity, private credit, pooled funds, and custom programs.
• Regional/emerging-market orientation: the firm seeks "the most attractive opportunities in overlooked or underserved markets" rather than traditional coastal venture hubs, and deliberately diversifies by both stage and sector within a given region.
• New Mexico technology transfer: a multi-tranche direct investment program backed by the New Mexico State Investment Council targets companies headquartered in New Mexico with a focus on technology creation and commercialization out of institutions like Los Alamos and Sandia National Labs.
• Seed co-investment: Sun Mountain serves as General Partner of a New Mexico Catalyst Fund designed to co-invest with local venture funds on early-stage and seed deals in emerging New Mexico companies.
• Markman's own contribution is on the finance/compliance side — fund structuring, reporting, and regulatory oversight — rather than setting investment thesis; the firm's sector emphasis skews to technology, clean energy, aerospace, and healthcare.