Ted Kinsman

Ted Kinsman is a Managing Director at Capstone Partners and Head of the firm's Energy, Power & Infrastructure Group, based in Denver, Colorado. He holds a BA in Economics from the University of Virginia and is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) charterholder. He has more than 20 years of experience in finance and investment banking within the energy sector and, across his career, has closed transactions totaling more than $2 billion as both an advisor and a principal investor.

Before joining the bank, Kinsman spent several years at The Broe Group — a Denver-based, privately held investment and asset-management firm — as a member of its Strategic Capital Group and its private investment division, where he focused on the acquisition of energy and natural-resources assets. This principal-investing background is the likely source of his "investor" designation in startup databases.

He joined Headwaters MB in 2005 and helped establish the firm's Energy & Natural Resources (now Energy, Power & Infrastructure) Group. Headwaters MB was acquired by Capstone Partners (formerly Capstone Headwaters) in January 2018; Kinsman carried his practice and leadership role into the combined firm. In 2022 he was named among Capstone's industry and practice group heads, leading the Energy, Power & Infrastructure vertical. His work has been recognized with industry awards, including an M&A "Deal of the Year" (2016) and an International/Cross-Border "Deal of the Year" (2006).

• Concentrates on the energy value chain: power, energy infrastructure, energy technology, and oil & gas — particularly energy-services businesses (oilfield, downstream, and power-generation products and services).
• Operates primarily as an M&A and capital-raising advisor to founders and owners of lower-middle and middle-market energy companies, in addition to having invested as a principal earlier in his career at The Broe Group.
• Looks for companies with fundamental technical expertise and differentiated capabilities in the energy transition. On the GridBright deal he stated that utilities and power producers face a major grid-upgrade cycle and that "firms like GridBright who have the fundamental expertise and capabilities are instrumental in helping utilities and power producers successfully navigate that process."
• Brings cross-border and strategic-capital experience, having sourced and structured energy and natural-resources acquisitions on both the buy-side and sell-side.