Douglas A. Gale

Doug Gale was recently Executive Director at JPMorgan Chase Bank, where he worked in the Corporate Banking Specialized Industries – Energy Group raising capital and providing traditional banking services for private and public midstream companies. He has worked in corporate oil and gas banking for more than 18 years providing traditional bank debt, syndicated facilities, debt through capital markets, commodity hedging, and treasury services. He has facilitated over $50bn of financing for energy companies including reserve-based loans, revolving lines of credit, term loan A, term loan B and institutional debt for private equity-backed to investment-grade clients. He issued the first sustainability-linked high-yield bond for a US oil and gas company in 2021. Doug joined JPMorgan as an Executive Director in their Corporate Banking Energy Team in 2016.

Before joining JPMorgan, he was Executive Director at UBS’s Corporate Energy Group from 2011 to 2016 and was Vice President at Union Bank’s Oil and Gas group from 2007 to 2011, prior to its acquisition by MUFG. Doug started his banking career in 2003 as an analyst in the oil and gas group of First American Bank in Dallas, Texas, a predecessor to Citibank. From 1998 to 2000, Doug was an environmental consultant/project geologist, for Tetra Tech EMI in Denver Colorado, primarily evaluating, scoping, and managing remediation projects for the U.S. Navy.

Doug earned a B.S. in Hydrogeology from the University of Texas at Austin and an MBA from Southern Methodist University.