Travis C. Acker is an Associate at GEC. His responsibilities include evaluating and executing new investments and growing our companies. Prior to joining GEC, Travis was an analyst in the investment banking group of Texas Capital Bank, where he worked on mergers & acquisitions, strategic advisory, and capital markets transactions.
Travis graduated from Texas A&M University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Agricultural Economics
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Sykes L. Yeates is a Director at GEC. His responsibilities include evaluating and executing new investments and growing our companies.
Sykes has over seven years of energy experience. Prior to joining GEC, Sykes was an analyst in the energy investment banking group of Wells Fargo Securities, where he worked on mergers & acquisitions, strategic advisory, and capital markets transactions.
Sykes graduated magna cum laude from Texas A&M University with a B.B.A. in Finance and Business Honors.
Portfolio Company Directorships:
Flic Financial
Freedom Solar Power
Rebound Dynamics
Stage Completions
Patrick T. Yip is a Managing Director of GEC. His primary responsibilities include sourcing acquisition opportunities, evaluating new investments and supporting the growth of GEC portfolio companies.
Patrick has over 15 years of energy and industrial services experience. Prior to joining GEC, Patrick was a key member of Halliburton’s Corporate Development group where he initiated and executed international oilfield services transactions. He previously served as an executive director at Cerberus’ SGI Frontier Capital. He also served on the board of ADG Scaffolding Engineering in Beijing. He began his career as an equity research analyst in New York and Beijing.
A native Houstonian, Patrick is also fluent in Chinese and experienced in cross-border capital formation and M&A in emerging markets, including China / Hong Kong. He graduated with honors from Washington University in St. Louis with a B.A. in Economics and earned his MBA from New York University.
Portfolio Company Directorships:
Flic Financial
Flowco Production Solutions
Locus Bio-Energy Solutions
Rebound
Alexander Chmelev is a Partner of GEC. His responsibilities include originating, evaluating, structuring and executing potential investments and supporting the growth of GEC portfolio companies.
Alexander has over 15 years of energy and industrial services experience. He previously worked for Quintana Energy Partners where he focused on energy private equity investments in upstream, midstream and downstream oil and gas markets. He also worked at Piper Sandler (Simmons Energy) advising energy executives in mergers, acquisitions and capital markets transactions. Alexander began his career as an engineer at Baker Hughes.
Alexander graduated magna cum laude from Texas A&M University with a Bachelor of Science in Computer engineering and earned an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Portfolio Company Directorships:
Flowco Inc.
Stage Completions
Cumulus Digital Systems
Objective Laboratory Analysis
SolarKal
Rebound
Jonathan B. Fairbanks is the Managing Partner of GEC. In the decade before starting GEC in 2008, Jonathan was a founder and director of the following public companies: Seajacks International, Scorpion Offshore, Floatel International, Chiles Offshore, and Hercules Offshore.
Jonathan is a member of the board of the Richard M. Fairbanks Foundation in Indianapolis. He previously chaired the board of the Contemporary Arts Museum of Houston and IDEA Public Schools of Houston and in Washington he served as a trustee of the Center for Strategic & International Studies and the Middle East Investment Initiative. Jonathan is a member of YPO Gold and CEO. He received a B.A. degree in political science from Denison University and read European history at St. Peter’s College, Oxford University.
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