Christopher Frantz

About Christopher Frantz

Christopher is a Partner on the Texas South team of SeatonHill. Mr. Frantz is an experienced executive, financial officer, and business development leader with a broad understanding of both the traditional and renewable energy worlds. He has operated at the executive level in both large and small organizations for over two decades and has a deep understanding of energy project and business entity mergers & acquisitions, financing, development, permitting, and large facility construction. Christopher has proven experience in structuring and implementing biofuel tolling agreements, sales contracts, and midstream water processing agreements. He has a successful track record of both simple cycle and combined cycle power plant development, distributed generation, and financing domestically and abroad of power projects. Christopher excels at new business creation and growth, having raised over $55 million in startup private equity and over $20 million in project finance private equity. He is fluent in merger and acquisition due diligence as well as post-merger integration. Christopher also has extensive experience drafting, negotiating, and executing financial and legal agreements of all types with a strong background in federal and state permitting, biofuels, and renewable tax credits and certifications.

Experience

1. CFO

   SeatonHill Partners

   Feb 2025 — Present · Houston, TX, US

   SeatonHill Partners is an elite CFO services provider with a team of highly experienced strategic leaders who go beyond the numbers to ensure the financial strength of your business.With a deep bench of talent, we are at-the-ready to provide your organization with the leadership it deserves to guide your business and deliver results. Our services include providing CFOs on a Fractional, Interim, Project-based, or Advisory basis.If you are not sure or thinking about the need for a CFO, here are key indicators that you may need our services- Have the financial and accounting requirements of your business grown beyond your knowledge and comfort zone- Are your meetings to review financial performance focused on the What and not Why- Is your company struggling with what the key performance indicators should be- Do you have a complex product or service offering- Do you feel financially unprepared to cope with an economic downturn- Is your company in a state of rapid growth or expansion- Are you seeking merger and acquisition opportunities, investors, bank funding, or an exit strategy?As the fastest-growing CFO services firm in the nation, we have the nation’s elite CFOs available to serve throughout the United States. Contact us at seatonhill.com.

Education

• The University of Chicago Booth School of Business

  Master of Business Administration (MBA), Finance, General

  1992 — 1994

• University of Rochester

  B.S., Optics

  1984 — 1988

Skills

• Biofuels
• Energy
• Biodiesel
• Renewable Energy
• Joint Ventures
• Private Equity
• Cleantech
• Alternative Energy
• Risk Management
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Project Planning
• Business Development
• Wind
• Project Finance
• Venture Capital
• Financial Modeling
• Petroleum
• Power Plants
• Due Diligence
• Contract Negotiation
• Start-Ups
• Power Generation