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Years in capital markets
45+
Years in capital markets
Career began at E.F. Hutton & Co.
1979
Career began at E.F. Hutton & Co.
Founded Lambert Capital Management
1987
Founded Lambert Capital Management

Founder & Senior Advisor

Joseph Lambert

Santa Barbara, CaliforniaLinkedIn profile(opens in a new tab)
  • AI Infrastructure
  • Compute Offtake
  • Capital Markets
  • Commodity Transactions

Joseph Lambert brings 45+ years of capital markets experience across strategic introductions, structured transactions, AI infrastructure, compute offtake, and commodity transaction advisory. He has advised on sovereign AI infrastructure development, compute prepay concepts, and complex commercial relationships requiring capital, counterparties, and execution discipline.

Joseph Lambert has spent more than 45 years in the capital markets, a career that began at E.F. Hutton & Co. in 1979. His current work centers on AI infrastructure—in particular, adapting the prepay and offtake structures that commodity markets have used for decades to the compute infrastructure market: capital deployed against future compute delivery, paired with behind-the-meter power economics.

He serves as a Senior Advisor to UnityCloud.ai, a USA sovereign AI infrastructure company developing GPU-dense data centers, behind-the-meter power and a verifiable data-governance layer on tribal trust land, and advises on the development of sovereign, US-based AI data-center platforms with a multi-gigawatt capacity pipeline. His focus areas include compute infrastructure partnerships, compute offtake and prepay structuring, tribal economic development and data-sovereignty frameworks.

As Managing Member of Lambert Special Situations LLC, Joseph originates commodity transactions and strategic introductions, including gold and silver prepay purchase arrangements, offtake agreements and physical-delivery contracts between mineral producers and institutional commodity purchasers such as refineries, trading houses and commercial metals firms. He is also the owner of Lambert Capital Management, a California-registered investment advisory firm he has operated since 1987.

Earlier in his career, Joseph led distribution and marketing for a series of institutional asset managers. At Laurel Capital Advisors he implemented a marketing plan that raised $400 million in assets; at Avatar Associates he helped turn net asset flows from negative $120 million to positive $40 million per year; and at National Asset Management he built a new territory to $80 million in assets raised per quarter. He was part of the founding team at Singular Research, leading its sales efforts to institutional money managers. At E.F. Hutton he was the number-one producer in the nation in his class of 80 and went on to serve as Assistant Manager, Pension Consultant and Training Supervisor.

Joseph founded The Lambert Foundation in 2010 to support youth development through the Teen Star program, and he supports World Vision. He is personally committed to economic sovereignty for Indigenous communities and to building systems that create lasting value for underserved communities while delivering institutional-grade outcomes.

Areas of Focus

  • Compute prepay & offtake structuring
  • Sovereign US-based AI data-center development
  • Behind-the-meter power economics
  • Tribal economic development & data sovereignty
  • Commodity prepay & offtake (gold and silver)

Education

  • Westmont CollegeBachelor’s degree
  • University of Southern California

Career

  1. UnityCloud.ai

    Senior Advisor · 2026 – Present

  2. Confidential AI Infrastructure Project

    Senior Advisor · 2026 – Present

  3. Lambert Special Situations LLC

    Managing Member · 2023 – Present

  4. The Lambert Foundation

    Founder · 2010 – Present

  5. Lambert Capital Management (RIA)

    Owner · 1987 – Present

  6. Singular Research

    Director · 2004 – 2009

  7. National Asset Management

    Western States / Pacific Rim Director · 2000 – 2001

  8. Avatar Associates

    Regional Vice President · 1996 – 2000

  9. Laurel Capital Advisors

    Regional Director · 1994 – 1996

  10. WinRich Capital Management

    VP / National Marketing Director · 1990 – 1992

  11. Santa Barbara Securities

    Vice President · 1985 – 1990

  12. E.F. Hutton & Co.

    Investment Executive → Assistant Manager · 1979 – 1985

Transactions advised
$47B+
Transactions advised
Transactions & investments
100+
Transactions & investments
Fund & co-investment diligence efforts led
50+
Fund & co-investment diligence efforts led

Managing Partner

Keith Spears

  • Private Equity
  • Impact Investing
  • M&A
  • Strategic Finance

Keith Spears is an alternative asset and private equity professional with more than three decades of experience across impact investing, private equity, mergers and acquisitions, and strategic finance. Over his career he has advised on more than $47 billion in transactions and investments and has worked across over 100 transactions.

Keith Spears is an alternative asset professional with particular expertise in impact investing, private equity, mergers and acquisitions and real estate. Over a career spanning more than three decades, he has worked on over 100 transactions and investments ranging from $1.0 million to well over $10 billion in size, and has led the due diligence effort on more than 50 fund and co-investment opportunities.

In total, Keith has advised on more than $47 billion in transactions—including approximately $30 billion across 80 private equity fund investments and co-investments, and $17 billion across 75 mergers, acquisitions and related financings.

He began his career in investment banking at The First Boston Corporation (now part of Credit Suisse), where he managed the deal assignment process for a 120-person M&A department, and later served as a Vice President at Goldman Sachs, where he was team leader on a $10 billion merger in the primary care industry. He went on to serve as Managing Partner of Genesis Capital Partners, securing financial advisory mandates ranging from $5 million to $2 billion; as a Business Development Executive at Gateway, coordinating global business development efforts representing $280 million invested; and as Chairman of Omega Capital Partners.

At Hamilton Lane, Keith led deal sourcing and due diligence for a $550 million program, working extensively with the CalPERS investment team and board of trustees, evaluating hundreds of fund and co-investment transactions that led to 49 deals, and representing the firm on more than ten fund advisory and corporate boards. He subsequently served as Chief Investment Officer of Legacy Equity Advisors, where he secured a $45 million commitment from The California Endowment, and as Managing Director of Transom Capital Group, where his investor-relations work led to a $130 million private equity fund.

More recently, Keith served as CEO of Heritage Impact Partners and as a General Partner of Include Ventures, a $250 million target fund-of-funds and co-investment platform, and he serves as Vice President, Impact Investing at Tides. He holds an MBA in Corporate Finance from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, studied corporate law at Yale Law School, and earned a BA in Economics and Urban Studies from Brown University.

Areas of Focus

  • Private equity fund & co-investment diligence
  • Mergers, acquisitions & related financings
  • Impact and alternative asset investing
  • Institutional investor relationships
  • Strategic finance & capital formation

Education

  • Stanford Graduate School of BusinessMBA, Corporate Finance
  • Yale Law SchoolCorporate Law
  • Brown UniversityBA, Economics and Urban Studies

Career

  1. Tides

    Vice President, Impact Investing · 2024 – Present

  2. Include Ventures

    General Partner · 2021 – 2024

  3. Heritage Impact Partners

    CEO · 2017 – 2021

  4. Transom Capital Group

    Managing Director · 2013 – 2015

  5. Legacy Equity Advisors

    Chief Investment Officer · 2011 – 2013

  6. Hamilton Lane

    Vice President · 2007 – 2011

  7. Merrill Lynch

    Financial Advisor · 2006 – 2007

  8. Omega Capital Partners

    Chairman · 2002 – 2006

  9. Gateway

    Business Development Executive · 1999 – 2001

  10. Genesis Capital Partners

    Managing Partner · 1995 – 1999

  11. Goldman Sachs

    Vice President · 1992 – 1994

  12. The First Boston Corporation

    Associate · 1988 – 1992

Figures reflect the cumulative career experience of Compute Capital Partners’ principals, including transactions completed prior to the formation of CCP. Biographical information is drawn from each principal’s professional history, including roles held with other organizations.

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