Steve Kennedy

Steve Kennedy is Executive Vice President & Head of Energy Banking at Amegy Bank. Mr. Kennedy has 30 years of energy banking experience, beginning with MBank (Dallas) in 1986 and continuing in 1992 with Wells Fargo (Dallas). He joined Amegy Bank (Houston) in 1997 to form its Energy Group.

Since its formation in 1997, Amegy’s Energy Group has made and currently maintains $4 billion in energy loan commitments to over 270 E&P, Midstream and Oilfield Service companies. The thirty-two member Energy Group maintains offices in Houston, Dallas and Denver.

Prior to beginning his career in energy banking, Mr. Kennedy worked in the field operations of an independent oilfield service company and was Managing Partner of Kennedy & Bachelor Oil Company, a third-generation family-owned business. He graduated from Texas A & M University in 1984 with a Bachelor of Science in petroleum engineering and earned a Masters in Business Administration from Baylor University in 1986.

He is a member of the IPAA, SPE, TIPRO, Houston Producers Forum, Houston Energy Finance Group and is a Director of the Petroleum Club of Houston. He has authored several articles on energy matters, including one regarding energy derivatives published in the October 2005 edition of “Oil & Gas Financial Journal”.