Our Team

Sam has 20 years of legal, finance and project development experience across the energy transition and midstream sectors. From working on KKR’s acquisition of TXU as a young M&A attorney in Simpson Thacher’s NYC office; to experiencing firsthand the impact of the Tohoku earthquake and Fukushima fallout as a mid-level M&A attorney in Simpson Thacher’s Tokyo office; to working on developing a salt dome near Corpus Christi for natural gas storage in support of LNG exports as general counsel; to developing and tax equity financing hundreds of solar projects at SunPower; to representing the largest renewable energy sponsors in project development, construction financing and tax equity financing transactions in the Project Finance group at Norton Rose Fulbright; Sam has seen the global energy system and the contracts that comprise it from many angles. Sam is a graduate of Columbia Law School, the University of Utah and Stanford’s Inter-University Center for Japanese language studies.  NeuVentus is a portfolio company of Lotus Infrastructure Partners, a private investment firm specializing in infrastructure investments along the entire value chain of energy and related sectors.

Diego is a seasoned business executive with 20+ years of experience in multiple facets of the energy industry. Most recently, he was President of Trinity Environmental Services, a saltwater and waste disposal company serving the oil and gas industry in Texas and New Mexico that featured saltwater disposal and pipeline operations and salt cavern facilities. Prior to Trinity, he was President and Chief Operating Officer of CCNG, Inc. Diego began his career at GE Energy in the aeroderivative gas turbine group, which installed gas turbine power plants globally for multiple applications. Diego holds a Master of Business Administration degree from the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin and a Bachelor of Science degree from Texas A&M University-Commerce.

David has more than 30 years of energy industry experience with a focus on engineering, construction, development and operations management of midstream industrial gas, natural gas and hydrocarbon liquids transmission, storage, and processing facilities. Prior to joining NeuVentus, David co-founded Caliche Development Partners, building out the Coastal Caverns salt dome storage asset in hydrocarbon and industrial gas service, which culminated with a successful sale to a major midstream investor. David also founded Gulf Shores Midstream, LLC, a midstream energy company focused on the acquisition, development, construction, and operation of subsurface storage assets. Over the course of David’s career, he has repeatedly demonstrated the ability to effectively and successfully manage significant development and capital budgets on major midstream pipeline, terminal and storage projects. David has a Bachelor of Science degree in Ocean Engineering from Texas A&M University, a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Houston, and served in the United States Army.