Rainey Janke

Rainey Janke is Senior Advisor of Investor Relations at Post Oak Energy Capital, where she manages the firm’s investor base and raises private equity capital. Post Oak’s team page also states that she sits on the board of Nadel & Gussman N.V., LLC.

Before joining Post Oak, Janke was Vice President of Investor Relations at EnerVest, Ltd. In that role she managed investor needs, developed prospective investor relationships, helped raise five private equity funds totaling $7.5 billion, and helped raise several co-investment partnerships totaling $734 million. She also helped negotiate oil and gas credit facilities for institutional funds and hedged fund production through derivative products.

Earlier in her career, Janke served as Treasurer for Belden & Blake Corporation and was a member of EnerVest’s Defined Benefit and 401K Retirement Committee. She began her career at Frost National Bank in San Antonio, Texas.

Janke received a B.B.A. in Finance from the University of Texas at Austin. Post Oak notes that she was a Normandy Scholar in 1999 and was appointed to George W. Bush’s Juvenile Criminal Justice Committee in 1998-1999.

• Post Oak is not presented in primary sources as an angel investor; it is a Houston-based private equity firm focused on the North American energy sector.
• The firm states its goal is to “identify the best management teams with compelling business plans” and provide growth capital and strategic support.
• Post Oak targets middle-market energy investments, a segment it says is underserved and likely to produce superior risk-adjusted returns.
• The firm primarily targets private investments in upstream oil and gas and minerals and royalty assets, while also describing its broader focus as upstream, midstream, and oilfield services.
• Fund V is focused on the lower-middle-market segment of North American upstream oil and gas and backs growth, development, acquisition, and recapitalization opportunities.
• For minerals and royalties, Post Oak focuses on core producing basins in North America where it has current and legacy ownership positions, actively managing those positions for accelerated development and current cash yield.