Benjamin A Stamets

Bio

Ben actively participates in Quantum's investment activities including investment sourcing, due diligence, transaction structuring and execution, portfolio company monitoring and transaction exits. Additionally, he works closely with Quantum's portfolio companies on such activities as raising and structuring senior debt, mezzanine capital or additional equity, executing commodity hedges and providing merger, acquisition, divestiture and general strategic advice. Prior to joining Quantum, Ben was an Associate with First Reserve Corporation, a private investment firm dedicated to the energy industry. He evaluated and performed all aspects of due diligence of potential investments and worked extensively with select portfolio companies in the development and execution of their business plans, as well as raising and structuring additional debt and equity. Prior to First Reserve, he was an Analyst in the energy investment banking group of Credit Suisse First Boston where he worked on mergers and acquisitions, corporate debt and equity offerings and asset sales for oil and gas, midstream and oilfield service companies. Ben holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Rice University, where he was a National Merit Scholar, and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.