Mr. Marchese joined Haddington in 2006 as a Vice President, assisting with deal sourcing, transactional work, and portfolio company management. He participated in the 2007 debt and equity financing of Bobcat Gas Storage, as well as the management and 2010 sale of that company; the management and ultimate sale of Norton Energy Storage in 2009, and currently resides on the Board of Managers at Apex CAES and Endicott Biofuels.
Previously Mr. Marchese was a managing partner at Eschelon Energy Partners, a Houston-based private equity fund targeting investments across the energy value chain. At Eschelon, Mr. Marchese developed bids and financing plans for several asset acquisitions and business plans. Projects included power generation, natural gas storage, natural gas distribution, in-plant specialty services, and pipeline maintenance and construction.
Prior to co-founding Eschelon, Mr. Marchese was with Reliant Energy’s $125MM private equity arm. At Reliant Mr. Marchese lead-managed the divestiture of 2 subsidiaries, and was a manager in Reliant Energy’s Market Based Structuring Group. In structuring, he was responsible for pricing full requirements energy transactions, swaps, options and tolling agreements on coal, oil, natural gas, and dual fuel power plants in the U.S. Before receiving an MBA Vanderbilt University, Mr. Marchese gained operational experience in the engineering and construction of petrochemical facilities as a Chief Field Engineer with Jacobs Engineering. He received both his MBA and Bachelors of Engineering from Vanderbilt University.
