Designer and manufacturer of patented service-less frac valves, which reduce downtime, lower well costs and increase operating efficiencies for oil and gas producers.
Grant Laws is an associate at GEC. His responsibilities include evaluating and executing new investments and growing our companies.
Grant has over two years of energy experience. Prior to joining GEC, Grant was an analyst at PPHB, where he worked on mergers & acquisitions and strategic advisory for energy services companies.
Grant received his Bachelor of Science in Economics from Texas A&M University and his Master of Management in Energy from Tulane University.
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
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
TXAM Pumps
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.
Portfolio Company Directorships:
