Executive Officers

Jordan Marye, 40
Director and Chief Executive Officer

Jordan Marye is a Managing Partner of Denham. He joined Denham in 2006 and is a valuation committee and investment committee member. Prior to joining Denham, Jordan worked in the Global Energy Group of UBS Investment Bank and the Energy Practice of Huron Consulting Group. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of multiple Denham portfolio companies and previously served as a director of Comstock Resources (NYSE: CRK). Jordan received a Bachelor of Science from Louisiana State University.

James Obulaney, 35
Director and Chief Financial Officer

James Obulaney is a Managing Director of Denham. He is responsible for origination, analysis, structuring and monitoring of investments. He joined Denham in 2014 and brings 13 years of energy experience to the firm. Prior to joining Denham, he was a member of the Energy Private Equity Group at Avista Capital Partners and in the Global Energy Group at Morgan Stanley. He currently serves on the board of multiple Denham portfolio companies. James received a Bachelor of Science in Engineering from Texas A&M University.

Saurabh Anand, 41
Executive Vice President

Saurabh Anand is a Managing Director of Denham. He is responsible for origination, analysis, structuring and monitoring of investments. He joined Denham in 2006, brings 18 years of energy experience to the firm and is an investment committee member. Prior to joining Denham, he was with GE Energy Financial Services focused on private equity and structured transactions in the global energy industry. He currently serves on the board of multiple Denham portfolio companies. Saurabh received a Bachelor of Engineering from Panjab University and a Masters of Business Administration equivalent from Indian Institute of Management Calcutta.

Paul Winters, 52
Senior Vice President and General Counsel

Paul Winters is a Partner of Denham and serves as the firm’s General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer, and on the valuation committee. He brings over 25 years of legal experience to Denham. As General Counsel, he is responsible for all legal matters affecting Denham, its funds and its portfolio companies. Prior to joining Denham in 2005, he was an attorney at Latham & Watkins LLP. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of multiple Denham portfolio companies. He received a Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service and a Juris Doctor magna cum laude from Georgetown University.

Board of Directors

Stuart Porter, 55
Director and Chairman

Stu Porter is the founder of Denham and serves as the firm’s Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer. He is a valuation committee and investment committee member. Stu brings almost three decades of senior investment experience to Denham. Prior to founding Denham, he was a founding partner of Sowood Capital Management LP and, prior thereto, was employed as a Vice President and Portfolio Manager at Harvard Management Company, Inc. where he focused on public and private transactions in the energy and commodities sectors. Stu began his career at the Chicago Board of Trade as an independent trader in the bond pit and after graduate school worked on the Goldman Sachs Commodities Index desk at J. Aron, the commodities division of Goldman Sachs. Stu serves as a director of Champion X (NASDAQ: CHX), including service on its audit committee. He received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Michigan and a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

Xuan Yong, 35
Director Nominee

Xuan Yong is the Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of Workrise (formerly known as RigUp), the leading workforce management solution for skilled trades. He started the Austin-based company in 2014 after seeing an opportunity to solve the problem of labor market fragmentation in the energy and infrastructure industries. Workrise helps companies fill positions that require skilled workers with qualified contractors quickly and efficiently. The company has grown to be the largest marketplace and provider of skilled labor for clients across the renewables, oil & gas, construction, and defense industries. He is an industry leader advocating for the development of technicians and blue-collar workers through training and career progression opportunities to boost the industry and its standards. Prior to co-founding Workrise, he worked as an energy investor at various hedge funds, including Citadel and D.E. Shaw. Xuan began his career as an investment banking analyst at Goldman Sachs and holds a BBA in Finance from Texas A&M University.

Dr. Dane Boysen, 47
Director Nominee

Dr. Dane Boysen has spent 20 years in clean energy at the intersection of entrepreneurship, technology, and innovation. In 2017, Dane founded Modular Chemical Inc. to help clients translate energy technology from laboratory innovation to market impact. He currently serves on the Leadership Council of Activate and the Board of Directors of Launch Alaska, non-profit organizations dedicated to supporting clean-tech entrepreneurs. He co-authored the 2019 National Academies report on “Negative Emissions Technologies and Reliable Sequestration: A Research Agenda.” From 2016 to 2018, Dane helped to stand-up Cyclotron Road at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory—an innovative new program designed to support the nation’s top energy innovators in commercializing their technology. From 2014 to 2016, he was the Executive Director for Research Operations at the Gas Technology in Institute, where he led a public-private initiative on modular chemical process development that resulted in the creation of the government-sponsored RAPID Institute. In the first Obama Administration, Dane served as a Program Director at the newly created Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), where he managed a portfolio of the nation’s most cutting-edge energy technology R&D projects. Earlier in his career, Dane led the development of a new grid-scale battery technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology that resulted in the investor-backed company, Ambri, and co-founded the venture-backed fuel cell company, Superprotonic Inc. He has a Ph.D. and M.S. in Materials Science from the California Institute of Technology, holds 8 U.S. patents, and has authored over 30 peer-reviewed journal publications.

Thomas Lee, 51
Director Nominee

Thomas Lee is a co-founder, Managing Partner and Head of Research at Fundstrat Global Advisors. He is a well-regarded strategist, focusing on both equity markets as well as emerging technologies. Thomas has over 25 years of experience in macro markets and equity research. Prior to co-founding the independent strategy research boutique, Fundstrat Global Advisors, he served as Chief Equity Strategist of J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. and had been at JPMorgan from 1999 through 2014. Prior to that, Thomas was a telecommunications equity research analyst and a small-cap equity and restructuring strategist working at firms like Kidder, Peabody and Salomon Smith Barney. He is a full-time contributor to CNBC and has been widely quoted in the media. He has been ranked consistently by Institutional Investors and held the #1, #2 and #3 position for 15 consecutive years (1998-2013). Thomas graduated from the University of Pennsylvania/Wharton School with a BSE in Economics and dual concentrations in Finance and Accounting. He is a CFA Charter holder.

Roberto de Diego Arozamena, 64
Director Nominee

Roberto de Diego Arozamena is Managing Partner of Alacran Advisory, an advisory and consulting company focused on the renewable energy, infrastructure and telecommunications industries. Roberto has a breadth of international and high-level management experience – accomplished in managing small and large businesses, including serving as the CEO of a public company, launching two startups, and leading international organizations conducting business in different countries and cultures. He has lived and worked in Mexico, the U.S., Spain and the UAE, along with extensive additional experience across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Of significance recently, he served as Chief Executive Officer of Abdul Latif Jameel Energy & Environmental Services, a Dubai-based firm with an overall investment of $1.5 billion focused on renewable energy (solar PV, wind and battery storage) and desalination and water treatment plant development. Prior to that, he was CEO of Jazztel Group PLC, a publicly quoted company with €230M in revenue and 1,200 employees that provided telecommunication voice and data services in Spanish- and Portuguese-language markets. Roberto graduated from the University of Southern California with a BS in Electrical Engineering. He completed his MBA studies in Construction and Real Estate in Universidad Politecnica de Madrid.

Christopher Thiele, 48
Director Nominee

Christopher Thiele is an advisor to strategic and private equity clients across strategy, M&A and capital raising initiatives, with a focus on the global energy transition and sustainable infrastructure sectors. Previously, he was a Managing Director at Noble Group with responsibility for strategy, M&A and principal investments. Prior to joining Noble, Chris was a Managing Director and Head of EMEA Power, Utilities and Renewable Energy Investment Banking at Morgan Stanley where he advised on several landmark M&A, equity and debt transactions across the global power, utilities and renewable energy sectors. Prior to Morgan Stanley, he was with Barclays Capital and CMS Energy where he was responsible for business development and financing activities for global energy infrastructure projects. Chris received his BBA from the University of Notre Dame.

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