Konstantin Chebotar

Konstantin Chebotar is an energy-sector investment professional whose career bridges geoscience, oil & gas operations, and private equity. He grew up in a mining town in the Far East of Russia and trained as a petroleum geoscientist, earning a B.Sc. (2008) and M.Sc. (2010) in Petroleum Geoscience from Lomonosov Moscow State University, followed by an M.Sc. from Imperial College London (2011). He then spent roughly six years as an oil & gas geoscientist in London, principally at BP, with earlier exposure to operators including Statoil (now Equinor) and TNK-BP.

Seeking to move from technical operations into investing, Chebotar earned his MBA from Harvard Business School (2017–2019), where he concentrated in entrepreneurship, finance, and private equity. At HBS he was CFO of the Venture Capital & Private Equity Club, a Section A International Representative, and a member of the Energy & Environment Club — stating his goal to help "lead a better version of the energy industry" by transitioning from fossil fuels toward cleaner alternatives.

After business school he moved into energy private equity, joining Blue Water Energy LLP (Bluewater) — a London-based firm (17 Connaught Place, W2 2ES) with $2.5bn+ in commitments focused on middle-market growth capital and buyouts across the energy supply chain — where he worked as an Associate and then Private Equity Vice President. He also has private-equity experience associated with SCF Partners, an energy-focused PE firm.

He is currently an Investment Director on the Assets & Investment team at Mercuria Energy Group, one of the world's largest independent energy and commodity trading houses, based in Geneva. In that capacity his work spans energy trading assets, energy transition, and carbon management, and he serves as a Board Member at CapturePoint LLC, a company advancing carbon capture and management services aimed at reducing industrial emissions.

• Invests in the energy sector — historically the oil & gas supply chain (upstream/midstream/downstream services) and increasingly energy transition and decarbonization (carbon capture, carbon management).
• At Bluewater, the mandate is middle-market growth capital and buyouts, with a stated emphasis on "driving higher efficiencies and lowering carbon output" and a strong ESG orientation (Bluewater is a UN PRI signatory).
• At Mercuria, focus shifts toward principal/asset investments tied to a global energy and commodity trading platform, including carbon and lower-carbon industrial ventures.
• In his own words (HBS), he aims to "lead a better version of the energy industry" by moving the sector "from fossil fuels toward cleaner alternatives" — a decarbonization-of-energy thesis rather than a generalist tech/seed thesis.
• Note: No evidence supports the source stub's framing of him as an angel investor writing seed-round checks; his verifiable activity is institutional energy investing.