Elizabeth Destephens

Standup, Financing, Operating, Governing Energy & Critical Minerals Companies | NACD Certified Corporate Director | MIT EMBA

Role
Managing Director at FTI Consulting
Location
Houston, TX, US
LinkedIn followers
500 followers
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About Elizabeth Destephens

Leading energy industry transaction diligence and execution (commercial, financial, technical), business transformation, and restructuring. Versatile C-suite energy executive and prolific early stage venture investor, with global engineering, management, digital technology, and finance experience. Ten years board experience on academic, non-profit, and private boards. Recognized expert and speaker on corporate innovation, as well as organizational and digital transformation. Multi-industry experience, including upstream and midstream oil and gas, manufacturing, technology, education, and defense.Broad expertise with transactions, financing, strategy, reserves, valuations, corporate due diligence, SEC reporting, change management, project management, and information technology. Lead technical role in multiple types of transactions and financings, including joint ventures, mezzanine debt, acquisitions, divestitures, reserve-based loans, debt exchange, secured and unsecured debt. More than $3B of A&D deals transacted and hundreds of opportunities personally evaluated.

Experience

  1. Managing Director

    FTI Consulting

    Nov 2025 — Present · Houston, TX, US

    Leading business stand up, financing, transformation, transaction diligence, and restructuring for the energy and critical minerals industries.

Education

  • North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics

    High School

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    Master of Business Administration (MBA)

    2013 — 2015

  • The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

    M.S. Accounting, Audit

  • University of Florida

    B.S., Materials Engineering, Business Minor

  • University of Houston

    M.Eng., Petroleum Engineering

Skills

  • Natural Gas
  • M&a
  • Engineering
  • Oil & Gas Industry
  • Energy Industry
  • Organizational Leadership
  • Energy
  • Nonprofit Organizations
  • Upstream
  • Value Navigator
  • Business Development
  • Aries
  • Economics
  • Presentations
  • Petroleum
  • Phdwin
  • Gas
  • Petroleum Engineering
  • Oil & Gas
  • Organizational Transitions
  • Reserves
  • Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Peep

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