Freepoint At-A-Glance
In short: in it for your long-term trust.
- We manage physical trading from the point of production.
- We leverage valuable strategic relationships that add efficiencies to client transactions —through an established presence in logistics and marketing.
- Our roots stem from the successes of Sempra Energy Trading— and the equity support of Stone Point Capital.
- We are agile. Committed. We have “boots on the ground.”
- We provide creative, scalable financing solutions for our clients.
- We are Freepoint Commodities.
- And we believe market ingenuity and experience always wins the day.
The Freepoint Advantage
Our expertise is in being able to use our intellectual capital toward structured, scalable financing and debt solutions that leverage our global presence in physical markets. We pride ourselves on the agility to make fast decisions — but build long-term relationships.
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Freepoint hires principal investment head
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Freepoint hires principal investment head
Freepoint Commodities has hired former Enron and Centaurus Energy executive Jeff McMahon, as managing director responsible for principal investments, SparkSpread has learned.
He joined the commodities merchant in Houston within the past few days, and will be responsible for originating, underwriting and financing proprietary investments across the energy industry.
An official at Freepoint confirmed the appointment.
McMahon spent eight years at Centaurus Energy and latterly Centaurus Capital, an affiliated high-net-worth family office.
At Centaurus, he was senior portfolio manager responsible for managing a diversified portfolio of an investments, ranging for debt, equity and derivative securities to physical commodity and real estate assets.
McMahon began his career at Arthur Andersen and joined Enron in 1994.
He co-led the establishment of its London-based international operations as cfo of Enron Europe, before moving back to Houston as treasurer in 1998.
He was appointed Enron’s cfo in 2001, following the departure of finance chief Andy Fastow, and early the following year was named coo and president.
Following Enron’s collapse, McMahon was appointed chief investment officer of Springfiefld Financial Group and more recently president of Zilkha Biomass Energy.