Andrew W. Ward

Andrew Ward is Founder and Managing Partner of Clearstream, which he founded in 2017.
He is the Chairman of Clearstream’s Investment Committee and is responsible for overall investment, asset management, capital raising activities, strategic planning, and operations of Clearstream.Mr. Ward has over 25 years of experience in private equity, the majority of which he has spent focused on various subsectors within the energy industry.
Prior to founding Clearstream, Mr. Ward was a Partner of Riverstone Holdings, LLC, which he joined in 2002.
In addition to leading many of Riverstone’s significant midstream energy infrastructure investments, Mr. Ward was also a member of the investment committee where he oversaw the firm’s capital allocation and strategic decision making for transactions spanning all traditional and renewable energy subsectors and geographies.
During his career, Mr. Ward has served on various boards of directors and actively served on various committees of such boards, including the boards of Bridger LLC, Buckeye GP LLC, Gibson Energy, HES International, Hestya Energy, Mainline Management LLC, Mistral Energy, Niska Gas Storage, PVR Partners L.P.
(Penn Virginia Resource Partners, L.P.), SemGroup and USA Compression.
Prior to Riverstone, Mr. Ward was a Partner and Managing Director with Hyperion Partners/Ranieri & Co., a private equity firm focused on principal investments in the financial services,Prior to Hyperion, he was an Associate in the High Yield Finance Group at Merrill Lynch, where he specialized in acquisition financing and M&A transactions involving financial sponsors.
Mr. Ward began his private equity career as a Senior Financial Analyst at Merrill Lynch Capital Partners, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Merrill Lynch, which managed private equity capital for leveraged buyouts across a wide range of industries.Mr. Ward received his A.B. from Dartmouth College and his M.B.A. from the UCLA Anderson School of Management.