Scott Bauer
Energy investor, former senior executive, and operator focused on the Appalachian Basin. Leads deal sourcing, capital allocation, and operator relationships.
At the outset of his career, Mr. Bauer served as president of Bancroft Properties, L.P., and CPP Development, L.P., where he successfully managed a real estate development portfolio in excess of $10 million. Starting in 2005, Mr. Bauer served as the head of the Energy Division at Jones & Cannon, P.C. Following his entrepreneurial spirit, Mr. Bauer ventured out on his own and founded Braxton Acquisitions in 2008.
Mr. Bauer negotiated approximately 40% of all leases signed in the “Core Area” of the Barnett Shale during 2008. From late 2007 through early 2008, Mr. Bauer represented, on a pro bono basis, over 100,000 individual landowners. Mr. Bauer founded Braxton Energy, LLC in 2007 with $10,000 of personal seed capital. In the first year of operations, the company exceeded over $100 million in revenue.
From 2008 to 2012, Mr. Bauer expanded Braxton Energy into a strategically built conglomerate of related companies — organically founded and built under the Braxton “umbrella” — incorporating strategic and symbiotic capabilities across both the vertical and horizontal chain of the energy industry, including fresh water resources, land and mineral aggregation, midstream opportunities, rail and logistics terminals, and innovative technology. In 2012, Angela Bauer joined as an equal partner. In 2014, Braxton Minerals deployed $7M of capital over six months, building a mineral portfolio in the Appalachian Basin now valued in excess of $250 million.
