Pickering Energy Partners Taps Jason Martinez to Lead Energy Transition Expansion

Pickering Energy Partners bolstered its energy transition advisory practice with the hiring on Dec. 13 of Jason Martinez, an energy industry veteran with decades of experience primarily as an investment banker in oil and gas.

“Jason will be an invaluable leader in helping clients achieve climate goals, which will require unprecedented capital investment,” Chief Investment Officer Dan Pickering commented in a release by the firm.

The original Pickering Energy Partners (PEP) was founded in early 2004 by Pickering as an institutional energy research firm before subsequently partnering with Bobby Tudor and Maynard Holt in 2007 to become Tudor, Pickering, Holt & Co.

Today, Pickering Energy Partners takes an entrepreneurial approach to a global natural resources-focused financial services platform with customized asset management strategies, market intelligence via insights and high impact consulting and advisory capabilities. Headquartered in Houston, the firm also began expanding into energy transition and ESG consulting with mergers within the past year with SailingStone Capital Partners and, more recently, Heikkinen Energy Advisors.

In his role on the Pickering Energy Partners team, Martinez will lead its energy transition advisory practice, supporting the firm as it enhances its offerings for energy transition companies.

“With its track record, relationships and intellectual capital across the energy delivery value chain, Pickering Energy Partners is a game-changing firm at the center of transforming the future of energy, and I am excited to lead its energy transition advisory practice,” Martinez commented on his appointment.

Most recently, Martinez was a managing partner at venture capital firm Tupper Lake Partners which focuses on early-stage energy and ESG-enabling technologies. Previously, he led the energy advisory practice at Bank of Montreal Capital Markets and ran the Houston office of Nomura Securities’ Energy Group.

“Jason offers a deep understanding of investor mindset, capital formation to fund and launch innovative business models, and a nuanced methodology of how management teams can position themselves in the new energy economy,” Walker Moody, president of Pickering Energy Partners, added in the release.

Martinez brings a unique perspective and expertise transforming companies across the energy value chain with more than 25 years of experience in the energy industry, according to the release. His client and deal work spans more than a dozen countries and more than $100 billion of announced transactions, including mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, all forms of public and private capital raising, and commercial lending.

He began his energy career in Andersen Consulting’s Natural Resources group working to transform companies across the energy value chain. He later helped build the Deutsche Bank Energy practice and previously worked in JP Morgan’s banking practice earlier in his career.