Curt Schaefer

Curt Schaefer serves as a Managing Partner of Outfitter Energy Capital, a Houston-based private equity group focused on middle-market investment opportunities in the oil and gas industry. Prior to co-founding Outfitter, Curt served as a Managing Director of TPH Partners. Curt joined TPH Partners’ affiliate, Tudor, Pickering, Holt & Co., in mid-2007 to help form the firm’s private equity arm, and was previously a Vice President with Goldman Sachs in its Natural Resources Investment Banking Group. At Goldman Sachs, he focused on M&A, anti-raid advisory and debt and equity financings for companies in the upstream, midstream and oilfield services sectors. His deal experience includes total transactions worth over $31 billion. Prior to his experience at Goldman Sachs, Curt was a Captain in the United States Army, serving in the 82nd Airborne Division and 8th Army, Seoul, South Korea. Curt graduated with honors from the United States Military Academy at West Point with a BS in Civil Engineering, and received an MBA - Finance Concentration, with honors, from Columbia University.