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
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
Managing Director
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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