Tom Glanville
Tom Glanville is the Managing Partner of both Eschelon Advisors and Eschelon Energy Partners. He has 45 years of energy sector experience and leadership positions in both operations and finance at Reliant, Enron Corp. and Bankers Trust Company. Through Eschelon Advisors, LP (“Eschelon Advisors”), his wholly-owned advisory firm established in 2003, Tom has served as a consultant to Reliant on its private equity portfolio, in addition to acting in an advisory role for several private companies and investors in the energy sector.
Tom joined Reliant as Vice President, Corporate Development in 1998 and led the corporate wide review and analysis of a $20 billion merger of equals with a U.K. power generator. As founder of Reliant Energy Ventures, Inc. (REVI) and its President from 1999 through 2002, Tom had primary responsibility for over $100 million in direct and indirect private equity commitments and was also a member of the REVI investment committee, which included the heads of each of Reliant’s business units and approved each REVI transaction. In conjunction with these responsibilities, Tom served as Reliant’s Vice President, Technology and New Ventures from 1998 through 2002 and as Acting President, Reliant Energy Communications from 2001 through 2002, where he led the management, restructuring, and sale of that entity.
Tom’s tenure at Enron from 1991 to 1998 included service as President of Enron Capital & Trade Resources Canada Corp., the company’s integrated Canadian energy merchant. While based in Calgary from 1994 to 1996, he led the company’s significant expansion of its physical energy commodity marketing and energy commodity risk management activities and initiated its energy producer finance business. Tom’s other positions at Enron included Vice President, Enron Capital & Trade Resources Corp. from 1996 to 1998, Vice President, Enron Finance Corp. from 1992 to 1994 and Vice President, Enron Oil Trading and Transportation Company from 1991 to 1992.
At Bankers Trust Company, Tom provided merger and acquisition advisory services to a wide variety of companies in the domestic and international natural resource sector from 1987 to 1991, serving as a vice president in 1990 and 1991. He led the 1990 Japan Petroleum Exploration Company / Osaka Gas Corp. purchase of Universe Tankship, Inc.’s equity stake in the Indonesian Joint Venture, the first commercial liquefied natural gas (“LNG”) project in Asia. He also served as a banking officer in the energy group at Texas Commerce Bank, Inc. from 1985 to 1987, and held operating and finance assignments at Mesa Petroleum Co. from 1980 to 1983.
Tom served as director of Itron (see Itron) since 2001 to 2022 and served as its Audit Committee Chair from 2013 to 2020 with the qualification as a “financial expert”. He also served as a member of this Committee and Itron’s Governance Committee from 2020 to 2022. In 2009, Tom was elected President of the Texas Tri-Cities (Houston, Austin, and San Antonio) Chapter of the National Association of Corporate Directors and in 2011 was named Chairman (see News). He retired as Chairman in 2016.
MIND Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ “MIND”), a maritime equipment provider to the geophysical, oceanographic, defense, and maritime security industries, elected Tom a director effective September 9, 2015. The company is headquartered in The Woodlands, Texas. The next month, MIND elected Tom Chair of its Audit Committee. In August 2019, MIND selected Tom for its Compensation and Nominating Committees.
Glanville serves on the board of Houston based oil and gas exploration and production companies Strand Energy and Crescent Pass Energy, the latter a portfolio company of Talara Capital Management, on whose advisory board he also serves.
Tom graduated with honors from the University of Virginia in 1980 with a Bachelor of Science in Economics. He received his Master of Science in Mineral Economics from the Colorado School of Mines in 1984, GPA 4.0. His masters thesis was titled “The Relative Economics of Domestic Oil and Gas Exploration and Development 1978-1983” and was presented to the Society of Petroleum Engineers in March 1985.
Serving as a leader and board member of several Houston not-for-profit entities, Tom is a Past Chairman of the Society of Performing Arts, a Trustee and past member of the Executive Committee of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and a Senior Member of the Board of Visitors of the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center and former chair of its Audit Committee. He is a member of the Independent Petroleum Association of America. He and his wife, Liz, currently reside in Houston and have three children.
Rob Glanville
Investment Committee member Rob Glanville has over 37 years of private equity, chief financial officer and financial institution experience. Rob currently serves as a senior adviser and consultant to growth businesses at all stages of development, as well as to large financial services investing practices and to growth equity and venture capital firms focused on the financial services sector. From 2006 through May 2015, Rob was a founding partner and lead financial services investing partner of a New York-based private equity firm, Pine Brook Capital Partners (see www.pinebrookpartners.com
From 2003 through mid-2006, Rob served as Senior Vice President, Finance and Treasury Services for Arch Capital Group (NASDAQ: ACGL, referred to herein as “Arch”), a Bermuda-domiciled (re) insurance company with $3 billion in capital, where he was responsible for investment management/treasury functions, capital allocation and business development, internal audit and operational and financial reporting. Rob was the principal architect and negotiator of Arch’s $1b Flatiron side car vehicle formed after the hurricanes of 2005 to allow Arch to participate in the ensuing hard property market while managing its capital at risk. Rob joined Arch in September 2003 after serving on its Board of Directors from November 2001 as a representative of Warburg Pincus. Rob was a principal negotiator and the lead transaction execution professional for Warburg Pincus in connection with its $445 million investment in Arch, which was, at the time, Warburg Pincus’s largest investment in a single portfolio company. Rob joined Warburg Pincus in January 1999 and was promoted to Vice President in December 1999.
From April 1997 through December 1998, Rob served as the Chief Financial Officer for the APP Group, a Czech Republic-based IT systems integrator partially funded by Warburg Pincus. In 1993, Rob founded F. A. Services LLC, a boutique financial advisory firm that raised capital for businesses in Central and Eastern Europe. Rob served as managing partner of the company from 1993 through 1997 and also served as the Chief Financial Officer for several clients. Rob began his career as an analyst at Morgan Stanley & Co. from 1988 through 1992, including two years in Tokyo. He earned an A.B. in American History in 1988 from Princeton University (summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa).
Rob and his wife Laura reside in Greenwich, Connecticut and have five children.
Madelyn Herfort
Madelyn Herfort is the Executive Assistant to Tom Glanville, Eschelon Advisors, LP and the Glanville Family Interests. She graduated from Texas A&M University in 2015 with a degree in Leadership & Educational Development with an emphasis in Business Communications. She joined Eschelon Advisors, LP in the summer of 2018.
Existing investors should contact Madelyn for any tax document, capital call, or contact queries at mrh@eschelonadvisors.com