Matthew DeNezza, CFO, Crusoe Energy

Speaker Profile

Matthew DeNezza brings decades of financial and strategic leadership experience to Crusoe. Matt is a key leader for Crusoe as it finances and builds a new paradigm of ESG-forward energy and computing services. While with Crusoe, Matt has held key roles in more than $1 billion of fundraising with venture, project, and credit capital investors.

 

Prior to joining Crusoe, Matt served as the CFO of Meritage Midstream, a private equity-sponsored midstream firm operating in the Powder River Basin in Wyoming. Previous to his leadership role at Meritage, Matt was the CFO of Eclipse Resources, an early entrant into the Utica shale play. Matt joined Eclipse in 2013 where he and the senior management team rapidly grew the business, took the company public in 2014 and eventually merged the business to create Montage Resources Corp. in 2018.

 

Matt spent a significant amount of his early finance career as an energy-focused investment banker, primarily at Deutsche Bank in New York City, where he worked from 2002 to 2013 serving both privately held and publicly traded upstream, midstream and downstream firms in conducting billions of dollars of mergers and acquisitions, equity and debt transactions.

 

Prior to Deutsche Bank, Matt served his country in the U.S. Navy as a commissioned officer assigned to the USS Boise, a fast-attack nuclear submarine, from 1993 to 1998. He holds a bachelor’s of arts from Harvard University and a master’s of business administration from NYU Stern School of Business.  He currently lives in Denver, Colorado, with his wife and children.