David has more than 35 years of experience in the energy business. As an entrepreneur, he has built three companies while expanding scope and expertise during seismic changes in world energy markets.

In 2004, David founded Vega Energy Partners. Vega focused on structuring solutions for producers, midstream companies, utilities, LNG exporters, large end-users, and retail aggregators. These solutions included natural gas infrastructure development, asset optimization, and physical commodity management services. Business operations focused on Infrastructure Development and Infrastructure Management.

Vega created and aggregated demand across the eastern United States, leveraging this demand to drive $6.0 Billion of capital projects and over 5.6 Bcf/d of capacity additions including brownfield pipeline expansion projects and three greenfield pipeline projects. Vega’s long-term infrastructure-based solutions helped increase supply liquidity, lower costs to consumers, and reduce carbon emissions in the U.S., Europe, and India.

In 2021, David sold Vega Energy to a global commodity company. After the sale, David, with a core group of former Vega employees, founded Arc57.

Matt joined Arc57 at its founding in April 2021. Prior to working at Arc57, Matt worked for its predecessor company Vega Energy Partners across a variety of roles, most recently as Head of Analytics. His responsibilities included fundamentals analysis and evaluation of all transactions, financial modeling, supporting capital raises, and analyzing market fundamentals.

Matt graduated from the University of Calgary in 2006 with a Bachelor of Commerce degree in Finance.

John joined Arc57 in 2023. Prior to working at Arc57, John spent two years doing Business Development and Origination at Six One Commodities, assisting the company in building out its Natural Gas Trading portfolio. Before Six One, John was at Vega Energy for 9 years and held several roles within the Business Development and Trading & Scheduling groups. John also worked at Protiviti in Audit and Sarbanes-Oxley compliance groups.

John graduated Texas A&M University in 2010 with a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in Finance.

Chris joined Arc57 at its founding in April 2021. Chris started career his in the energy industry in 1987 developing a marketing trading platform for Tejas Power Corporation. In 1993, Chris formed Inventory Management and Distribution company (IMD) to perform Asset Management Agreements with utilities across the United States. After selling IMD to Koch energy trading in 2000, Chris stayed on and led business development activities until the company was sold to Merrill Lynch Commodities. At Merrill, Chris assumed the role of Managing Director of Business Development for natural gas, power, crude, and coal. In 2008, Merrill, was acquired by Bank of America at which point Chris left to join with Vega Energy to pursue unregulated opportunities in natural gas marketing. At Vega, Chris helped structure a number of pipeline transactions to bring shale gas to the ultimate end user. After the sale of Vega Energy, Chris joined Arc57 in a business development role.

Aaron is an operator with more than 20 years of experience building and scaling businesses in the energy sector. He began his career at Vega Energy Partners, where he advanced from analyst to President, helping lead the company’s growth, strategic transactions, and operational development through its sale to Six One Commodities. He later served as Chief Operating Officer, overseeing integration efforts across four global offices.

Most recently, Aaron was COO of Wise Rock, a venture-backed SaaS company serving the energy industry, where he helped drive greater than 10x growth in revenue and valuation while building the systems and team required to scale.

At Arc57, Aaron focuses on translating strategy into execution—aligning people, processes, and capital to build durable, high-performing businesses.

Aaron graduated from the University of Tulsa in 2005 with a B.S.B.A in Finance

Ashley joined Arc57 in 2023. Prior to working at Arc57, Ashley spent two years as Treasurer and Head of Credit at Six One Commodities, assisting the company in increasing its borrowing base facility from $125M to $745M in one year. Before Six One, Ashley was at Vega Energy for 15 years and held several roles within the strategy and optimization group, including trading, scheduling, accounting, and risk management. Ashley also worked at KPMG Canada in the US Corporate Tax group and at Duke Energy North America in the Structuring group.

Ashley graduated the University of Texas in 2002 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting and a Master of Science degree in Accounting.