Chickasaw Capital Management:
Experience That Spans the Evolution
of the MLP Structure
Since its founding, Chickasaw Capital Management has stood on the leading edge of MLP investment management. Our tenure within the MLP market reaches back to the earliest days of the structure. From the genesis of our team in the early 1990s to the 2011 launch of our MainGate MLP Fund, we have played a direct role in the evolution of the MLP space — including our involvement with MLP IPO and secondary financings. Our longstanding relationships with MLP management teams provide an historical framework and foundation for our intellectual capital in this dynamic market.
At Chickasaw Capital Management, our investment team seeks to deliver investment results through discipline, fundamental research, quantitative skill and managing risk — while always maintaining a clear commitment to our clients.
Geoffrey P. Mavar | Principal
Geoffrey is a Principal and co-founder of Chickasaw Capital Management, LLC. He is a member of the firm’s Investment Committee. Geoffrey began his investment career at Goldman Sachs & Co. where he served for 11 years and was a Vice President. He began managing Midstream assets on a discretionary basis during his tenure at Goldman Sachs. Geoffrey graduated with a B.A. from The University of Mississippi in 1984. He received an MBA in Finance from the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University in 1990, and served on the Alumni Board of Directors of the Business School from 1999 to April 2007.
Matthew G. Mead | Principal
Matt is a Principal and co-founder of Chickasaw Capital Management, LLC. He is a member of the firm’s Investment Committee. Matt began his investment career at Goldman Sachs & Co. where he served for 9 years and was a Vice President. Matt began managing Midstream assets on a discretionary basis during his tenure at Goldman Sachs. He has diverse investment experience across public and private equity, fixed income, and derivative markets. Matt received his B.S. from Birmingham-Southern College in 1990, double majoring in Economics and Finance. He received an MBA from the Fuqua School of Business, Duke University in 1992. Matt has been a member of the Board of Directors of Oakworth Capital Bank since 2008.
Robert M.T. Walker | Principal
Robert is a Principal at Chickasaw Capital Management, LLC where he leads the firm’s research efforts. He is a member of the firm’s Investment Committee. Robert started his investment management career in 1999 with Haas, Incorporated, a family office in Memphis, and was an analyst with Trinity Capital, an equity hedge fund, before joining Chickasaw. He received his B.A. from Rhodes College in 1999, with a History major and a Business Administration minor. Robert received an MBA from the Owen Graduate School of Management, Vanderbilt University in 2005 where he was the Chairman of the Max Adler Student Investment Fund. He served on the Owen Alumni Board of Directors from 2013 to 2017.
Bryan F. Bulawa | Principal
Bryan is a Principal at Chickasaw Capital Management, LLC. He was most recently the Chief Financial Officer at Enterprise Products Partners, LP, having joined them in 2007 in the role of Treasurer. He was selected as the top-ranked CFO in the Natural Gas Pipeline and Master Limited Partnership sector by both buy-side and sell-side firms in Institutional Investor’s 2018 and 2019 surveys. Bryan successfully executed over $40 billion of equity and debt financing while maintaining an industry leading low-cost of capital, top-of-sector equity analyst ratings and credit ratings. Bryan was an active deal team member in the $6 billion Oiltanking M&A transaction, resulting in an interim role as Chairman of the Board for Oiltanking GP from October 2014 to February 2015. He served as an active deal team member in all partnership simplification transactions resulting in four publicly traded securities (NYSE listed: EPD/EPE/TPP/DEP) combining into one security and the elimination of Incentive Distribution Rights in 2010. Prior to Enterprise, Bryan enjoyed a career in corporate and investment banking for over a decade at Scotiabank. Bryan received his B.S. in Finance from the University of Wyoming in 1991.
Ralph Lettieri | Regional Sales Director
Ralph is the West Coast Regional Sales Director for Chickasaw Capital Management, LLC focused on providing ideas and solutions to assist Financial Advisors with their practices in California, Oregon, and Washington. He has more than 25 years of experience in the financial services industry with the majority of those years spent as a Vice President and Regional Director at Goldman Sachs & Co. Ralph most recently comes to Chickasaw Capital Management from EnTrust Global, an Alternatives Manager based in New York City, where he served as a Senior Vice President covering the Western United States. He previously worked as an auditor at KPMG in Short Hills, New Jersey, during which time he earned his Certified Public Accountant certification (1988-1990). Ralph graduated from Villanova University with a B.S. in Accountancy and graduated with an MBA from Penn State University.
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