David R. Marchese

Mr. Marchese joined Haddington in June 2006 as a Vice President, assisting with deal sourcing, transactional work, and portfolio company management.  Previously Dave was a managing partner at Eschelon Energy Partners, a Houston based private equity fund targeting investments across the energy value chain.

At Eschelon Energy Partners, Dave developed bids and financing plans for several asset acquisitions and business plans.  Projects included power generation, natural gas storage, natural gas distribution, in-plant specialty services, and pipeline maintenance and construction.  In addition, Dave led many of Eschelon’s institutional investor relations and marketing efforts.  As part of the development of Eschelon’s Private Placement Memorandum, Dave developed Eschelon’s market analysis and supply and demand curves.  During that time, Dave also worked as a consultant for Eschelon Advisors, including assessment of private equity investment opportunities for family office investors and technical consulting for sell-side equity research firms.

Prior to co-founding Eschelon, Dave was with Reliant Energy’s $125 million private equity and venture capital arm.  While at Reliant Dave was also the lead manager in the divestiture of two subsidiaries and a manager in Reliant Energy’s Market Based Structuring Group.  In Structuring, Dave was responsible for pricing full requirements energy transactions, swaps, options and tolling agreements on coal, oil, natural gas, and dual fuel power plants in the US.  During his career at Reliant he worked in all of the deregulated Eastern US power markets.  Additionally, he followed green requirements markets, emissions markets, and transportation and delivery costs for fuel oil and gas.

Before earning his Masters of Business Administration at Vanderbilt University, Dave worked in the engineering and construction of petrochemical facilities as a Chief Field Engineer with Jacobs Engineering, a worldwide leader in providing services to the entire energy value chain.  He also holds a Bachelors of Engineering from Vanderbilt University.