Behind EnLink is
a group of savvy "blue chip" investors who bring with them financial expertise and years of experience in running profitable companies.

Behind EnLink is a group of savvy “blue chip” investors who bring with them financial expertise and years of experience in running profitable companies.

Craton Equity Partners recently committed $30 million to EnLink. Craton’s funding partners include some of the largest and most successful institutional investors in the country, including many of the top pension funds.

Two of Craton’s principals serve on the EnLink Board of Directors:

Tom Soto
Managing Partner
Member of the Board of Directors

For 15 years, Mr. Soto has combined his environmental activism with his skill at meeting the needs of the private sector to help companies become more profitable while enhancing the environment. Mr. Soto founded PS Enterprises in 1989, working with both corporate and government clients. In 1990, He participated in the drafting of the amendments to the National Clean Air Act and the California Clean Air Act. Mr. Soto was instrumental in creating the National Business Council for a Sustainable Energy Future, a successful collaboration of environmental groups, government agencies, and energy companies that designed and implemented creative incentive programs to boost natural gas and alternative fuel use. He played a leading role in American Airlines’ $450 million conversion of its ground service equipment to electric power. Tom graduated from University of California, Los Angeles, with a Bachelor of Arts degree.

Bob MacDonald
Managing Partner
Member of the Board of Directors

Mr. MacDonald has more than 30 years of investment experience under his belt, including co-founding and leading the development of one of the country’s first fully integrated independent power production companies. He was with Salomon Brothers from 1972-1979 in the Municipal Bond Department and Public Finance Group. In 1979, Mr. MacDonald co-founded a municipal financial advisory firm and provided financial advice to numerous municipal and local government clients. In 1981, he and his partners founded Catalyst Energy Corporation, which became one of the largest IPPs in the country, and later sold it to the Bronfman family for $1 billion. After 1993, Bob was with William E. Simon & Sons L.L.C. and later became President of Simon Private Equity. Bob serves on the Clean Tech Advisory Council for the Mayor of San Francisco. He graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Finance from Fairfield University.

Other investors include:
Simons Family Funds
Jim Simons recently committed $60 million to Stony Brook University, the largest gift ever to the State University of New York system.

The Meinig and Hojel Family Funds
Mr. and Mrs. Peter Meinig committed $25 million to Cornell, the largest individual gift ever to the school. Mr. Meinig is the Chairman of the Board of Trustees at Cornell. His daughter Anne Meinig Smalling is EnLink's Board Chair.

Anne Meinig Smalling
Chair, EnLink Board of Directors

As President of HM International, LLC (HMI), Mrs. Smalling provides management services to the joint interests of the Meinig and Hojel families. Her primary responsibilities include obtaining financing, evaluating investment banking opportunities, reviewing and approving all capital expenditures, management oversight and supervision, management organization and succession planning and strategic planning. Mrs. Smalling serves as the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Windsor Quality Food Company, American Innovations, PGI International, EnLink Geoenergy Services, rateGenius, Inc. and Ninth House, Inc., and also serves on the Board of Directors of Quick Arrow and Igasamex. Additionally, she serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the United Way of Central Texas and the Board of Directors of St. Andrew’s Episcopal School, and serves on the Dell Children’s Medical Center of Austin Foundation Council.

Mrs. Smalling has a Bachelor of Developmental Psychology from Cornell University and a MBA from Harvard Business School.

Richard C. Hojel
President and CEO, Corporacion Frigus Therme
Member, EnLink Board of Directors

Richard Hojel has been with Corporacion Frigus Therme since 1993 and in 1996 became its President and CEO. Based in Mexico, Corporacion is a group of companies that includes the following business units: a manufacturing process equipment company that services the petroleum and petrochemical industry (Industrias Therme), a commercial refrigeration equipment company (Frigus-Bohn) and a business that rents capacity to transport and market natural gas (Igasamex).

As a Partner of HM International, Mr. Hojel works closely with and serves on the Board of Directors of Windsor Quality Food Company, PGI International, Ninthhouse, American Innovations and EnLink Geoenergy Services. Additionally he serves as the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Algas-SDI, Frigus Bohn de Mexico, and Igasamex. Mr. Hojel has been a Member of the Board of Directors of The Institute of the Americas since 2003. He began his career at Andersen Consulting.

Mr. Hojel has a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University and a MBA from Harvard Business School.

Investors and Directors