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Richard Aube

Mr. Aube joined Pine Brook in July 2011 and is a managing partner. He is responsible for managing the Firm’s energy investment activities. He is also a member of the Firm’s Management Committee and Investment Committee. Mr. Aube represents Pine Brook as a board director of Accelerate Resources Holdings, LLC, GR Energy Services Holdings LP, Pursuit Oil & Gas, LLC, Saguaro Resources Ltd., Serafina Energy Ltd. and Strategic Funding Source, Inc. (d/b/a Kapitus).

Mr. Aube has 29 years of experience in the energy sector. Prior to joining Pine Brook, Mr. Aube was with D.E. Shaw & Company, a multi-strategy global investment firm, where he was a managing director responsible for co-managing the firm’s North American private equity effort. Previously, Mr. Aube was a partner with J.P. Morgan Partners, a multibillion-dollar private equity firm affiliated with JPMorgan Chase, where he focused on growth equity and buyout investments in the energy and industrial sectors. Earlier in his career, he was a partner with the Beacon Group, an investment and advisory firm.

Mr. Aube holds a B.A. from Dartmouth College.

Howard H. Newman

Mr. Newman is a managing partner of Pine Brook, which he co-founded in 2006. He is also a member of the Firm’s Management Committee and Investment Committee. Mr. Newman represents Pine Brook as a board director of Elevation Resources Holdings LLC.

Prior to co-founding Pine Brook, Mr. Newman was with Warburg Pincus for 22 years, most recently as vice chairman and senior advisor, and as a senior member of the firm’s management and investment committees. At Warburg Pincus, he led or co-led the energy, financial services, media, real estate and general investment practices. Before joining Warburg Pincus, Mr. Newman spent 10 years in energy and financial services investment banking at Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated.

Over the course of his career, he has been a director or observer on the boards of more than 45 companies, including 18 public companies. Mr. Newman’s previous board experience includes Bill Barrett Corporation, Encore Acquisition Partners, Gryphon Exploration Company, Kosmos Energy LLC, J. Makowski Company, The Marine Drilling Companies Inc., Newfield Exploration Company, Spinnaker Exploration Inc. and Targa Resources, Inc., as well as Cox Insurance Holdings PLC, Dime Bancorp, Inc., RenaissanceRe Holdings Ltd., SLM Corporation and TAC Bancshares, Inc.

In addition to overseeing Pine Brook’s portfolio, Mr. Newman is a trustee of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies and serves on the board of the Tunisian American Enterprise Fund. During the term of Governor George Pataki of New York, Mr. Newman was an advisor on energy policy and a senior advisor to the Long Island Power Authority. Mr. Newman has served as a chairman of the Yale Alumni Fund and as a member of the Yale University Council and the advisory board of the university’s Climate & Energy Institute.

Mr. Newman holds a B.A. in Economics (magna cum laude with Distinction) and an M.A. in Economics from Yale University, and a Ph.D. in Business Economics from Harvard University. He was a Marshall Scholar at Cambridge University.

Nicholas Chew

Mr. Chew joined Pine Brook in August 2012 and is a managing director on the energy investment team. He represents Pine Brook as a board director of Ancova Midstream, LLC.

Prior to joining Pine Brook, Mr. Chew was with Oppenheimer & Co., where he was an analyst in the Industrial Growth and Services Group specializing in transactions related to oil & gas, midstream, chemicals and transportation.

Mr. Chew holds a B.S. in Business Administration (cum laude) from the Robins School of Business at the University of Richmond, with a dual concentration in Finance and Economics.

Connor Johns

Mr. Johns joined Pine Brook in August 2019 and is a vice president on the energy investment team.

Mr. Johns came to Pine Brook from Citigroup where he spent two years as an analyst in the firm’s Energy Group.

Mr. Johns holds a B.B.A. in Corporate Finance (with honors) from The University of Texas at Austin.

Cody Sheedy

Mr. Sheedy joined Pine Brook in February 2022 and is an associate on the financial services and energy investment teams.

Mr. Sheedy came to Pine Brook from HSBC where he spent four years as an analyst / associate in the firm’s Debt Originations Group.

Mr. Sheedy holds a B.B.A. in Finance from The University of Georgia.