Mr. Lapeyre is a Founder and Senior Managing Director of Riverstone. He is based in New York.
Prior to founding Riverstone, Mr. Lapeyre was a Managing Director of Goldman Sachs in its Global Energy & Power Group. Mr. Lapeyre joined Goldman Sachs in 1986 and spent his 14-year investment banking career focused on energy and power, particularly the midstream/pipeline and oil service sectors. Mr. Lapeyre�s responsibilities included client coverage and leading the execution of a wide variety of M&A, IPO, strategic advisory and capital markets financings for clients across all sectors of the industry.
While at Goldman Sachs, Mr. Lapeyre served as sector captain for the midstream/pipeline and oil services segments, led the group�s coverage of Asian energy companies and was extensively involved in the origination and execution of energy private equity investments on behalf of the firm. Mr. Lapeyre was responsible for managing Goldman Sachs� leading franchise in Master Limited Partnerships. He was also asked to lead the group�s agency and principal investment effort in energy/power technology.
At Goldman Sachs, Mr. Lapeyre had relationship and deal execution responsibilities for a broad range of energy clients, including Amerada Hess, Anadarko Petroleum, Cross Timbers, Gulf Canada, Kinder Morgan, Koch Industries, Kuwait Petroleum, PDVSA, Phillips, Santa Fe International, Schlumberger, Transocean SedcoForex, Unocal and Western Gas Resources, among others.
Mr. Lapeyre received his B.S. in finance/economics from the University of Kentucky and his M.B.A. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Mr. Lapeyre serves on the Boards of Directors of SemGroup, Legend, CDM, Topaz, Stallion, InTank and Frontier Drilling. |