Michael Kelly

About Michael Kelly

I am a creative and hard-working investment, financial, and business development professional with broad expertise ranging from large-scale infrastructure projects to lower-middle market buy-and-build platforms and start-up ventures. When approaching potential commercial or investment transactions, I seek to identify all stakeholders\' key value drivers and areas of concern then work to negotiate or structure around these to achieve an optimal outcome. I believe that taking this value proposition-focused approach allows better outcomes, higher chances of successful negotiations and closings, and greater attractive deal flow in the future. Areas of particular expertise include deal origination, transaction structuring and negotiation, infrastructure investments, corporate development, asset management, capital sourcing, project development, due diligence, commercial agreements, and broad energy industry expertise spanning upstream/midstream/downstream Oil & Gas, power generation, physical and financial energy commodity markets, and renewables. In addition, I have broad generalist lower-middle market private equity and start-up/venture capital expertise covering a broad swath of industries and investment structures.I am a self-motivating and collaborative team player who takes a strong sense of personal responsibility for helping companies I am working for and working with achieve their desired goals. I am a top-performer and forward-thinking leader who has demonstrated an ability to drive value even in extremely challenging market climates. I hold the Chartered Financial Analyst designation and am a member of the Houston Chapter of the CFA Society.

Experience

1. Vice President of Finance & Strategy

   Deep Blue

   Jan 2026 — Present · Houston, TX, US

Education

• University of Virginia

  BA, Economics

  2006 — 2010

Skills

• Sarbanes-Oxley Act
• Excel
• Energy
• Valuation
• Competitive Intelligence
• Fundamental Research
• Financial Analysis
• Finance
• Due Diligence
• Equity Valuation
• Financial Modeling
• Firm Valuation
• Enterprise Valuation
• Strategic Planning
• Strategy
• M&a Due Diligence
• Microsoft Excel
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Analysis
• Research
• Private Equity
• Corporate Finance