Bio

Mr. Albin co-founded NGP in 1988 and serves as a Managing Partner of the NGP funds. He co-manages NGP’s investment portfolio and the day-to-day investment sourcing efforts of the firm. He pays particular attention to covering the Rocky Mountain and West Texas regions from his office in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Mr. Albin is a creative negotiator and facilitator, providing skills that help NGP’s portfolio companies with their strategic decision making. He also takes a keen interest in analyzing macroeconomic data relevant to the energy industry, which results in his early identification of trends that impact NGP’s investment strategy as well as its portfolio companies. Prior to co-founding NGP, Mr. Albin was a Partner in the Bass Investment Limited Partnership (“BILP”), an investment partnership formed by the Bass family of Fort Worth, Texas. BILP’s $600 million equity capitalization increased in value to over $1.4 billion from 1984 through 1988, with a return on capital in excess of 40%. Before joining BILP, Mr. Albin was a member of the Oil and Gas group in the Investment Banking division of Goldman, Sachs & Co. from 1981 until 1983, where he worked on financing and merger/divestiture transactions for numerous oil and gas companies. Mr. Albin received a B.S. in Physics in 1981 and an M.B.A. in 1985 from Stanford University.