Tom co-founded Bluewater in 2011. Tom’s responsibilities range from deal origination and structuring to execution, monitoring and exit strategy evaluation. Tom is involved in investment activities throughout the entire energy industry, with particular expertise in industrial manufacturing and service, energy transition and storage and logistics.

Before Bluewater, Tom served as Managing Director and, from 2006, Head of the London office and Chairman of First Reserve International. Tom holds an A.B. degree Magna Cum Laude in Economics from Harvard College and an M.B.A. from Stanford Graduate School of Business. Tom has served in recent years as a director on the boards of Aquilex Corp., Dresser, Inc., Dresser-Rand Group, Inc., Quanta Services, Inc. and Bahamas Oil Refining Company International Limited (BORCO). Tom is on the board of Authentix, Edge, Excellence Logging, IMServ, Galileo Technologies, GES, GPS Group and Severn Group.

Martin joined Bluewater in 2013 and has 20 years of private equity and M&A experience in the energy sector. Prior to joining Bluewater, he held senior roles at HitecVision, KPMG and RBC Capital Markets.

Martin has leadership responsibilities on deals from origination, through execution, portfolio management and exit. He has a focus on companies within the energy service, technology and infrastructure markets.

Martin is currently a board member of 3T Energy Group (UK), GES Group (Singapore/Netherlands), CRC Evans (UK), Unique Group (UAE), ROVOP (UK),  IMServ (UK) and Wellesley (UK). Martin is also a member of the firm’s Investment Committee

He is a qualified CA with a degree in Accountancy and Finance from Heriot Watt University in Edinburgh.

Salil joined Bluewater in 2013 and has more than 15 years of experience in the Energy and Industrials sector. Salil’s key responsibilities include origination, execution and portfolio management. He has a focus on companies within the energy and industrial manufacturing and technology segments.

Salil was previously a Director in the Corporate Finance division at Ruspetro Plc and, before then, an Investment Banking Associate in the Basic Industries group at Citigroup. He is a Rhodes Scholar from University of Oxford and holds a BA (Hons) degree in Economics and Management.

Salil currently serves on the board of Galileo Global Technologies, Severn Group, Varel Energy Services International, Apex and EDGE Gathering Virtual Pipelines.

Louise joined Bluewater in 2018 and has over 20 years of Private Equity experience.  Louise is responsible for leading both the finance and Fund operations function of the firm including fund and deal structuring, tax, portfolio and investor reporting and compliance together with responsibility for the oversight of HR, office management and IT functions.  She is also a member of the ESG committee.

Before joining Bluewater, Louise was Chief Administration Officer at Langham Hall, a private equity and real estate fund administrator and, before then, Fund Operations Manager at Park Square Capital, a leading private equity credit investor and Fund Financial Accountant at Electra Partners, one of the UK’s oldest private equity firms. Louise holds a degree in Business and Economics from Salford University