STEP INSIDE FIRST Reserve Corporation’s Greenwich, Connecticut headquarters and sooner or later you’re bound to spend time viewing the “wall of fame”: a large, central hallway whose walls are filled with images of rigs, turbines, drill pipes, refining equipment, ships, mines and other successful investments from the private equity firm’s 26 years of investing in the various facets of the energy sector.
Building a better mousetrap
Mark Florian went from advising on blockbuster toll road deals for one of Wall Street’s finest to building out an energy infrastructure team at the world’s oldest energy private equity firm. In his first interview since joining First Reserve from Goldman Sachs last year, he tells Cezary Podkul why he made the transition and what he hopes to accomplish at his new employer.
