Neil Chen
Managing Director
Intrepid Financial Partners
Neil Chen is a Managing Director at Intrepid Financial Partners ("Intrepid"), the energy focused merchant bank.
He is a founding employee of Intrepid and is a seasoned investment banker and investor. Currently, Neil focuses his time on Intrepid's Investment Management business where he leads the energy transition investing effort. Prior to that, Neil was involved with building Intrepid’s Investment Banking business and helped advise on and execute ~$40 billion of Intrepid's early Investment Banking transactions. Neil is member of Intrepid's senior management team and serves on Intrepid's investment committee and fairness opinion committee.
Before joining Intrepid, Neil held a variety of roles at Barclays and Lehman Brothers. He spent most of his career there as an Investment Banker in the Mergers & Acquisitions group, responsible for the execution of a number of strategic and financing transactions. Most recently, he was a member of Barclays’ executive management team and Americas Management Committee and served as the Chief of Staff to the CEO (Americas), where he helped manage the Investment Banking, Corporate Banking, Credit Card and Wealth & Investment Management businesses in the region. He was involved with all aspects of the business including corporate development, investments, strategy, client development and strategic partnerships.
Neil holds a B.A. with honors from Princeton University.
