Mr. Welch has served as the Chief Executive Officer, President and as a member of the Board of Directors since February 2022. Prior to February 2022, he served as President, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of BCP Raptor Holdco GP, LLC, the general partner of BCP, a position he held since May 2021. From April 2019, he was President and CEO and before then was President and CFO. Prior to February 2022, he served as director of BCP Raptor Holdco GP, LLC since June 2017. Mr. Welch has served as a Senior Advisor to Blackstone Energy Partners since July 2016. Prior to joining Blackstone and BCP Raptor Holdco GP, LLC, he was the Group Chief Financial Officer and Head of Business Development for the Energy Transfer Equity, L.P. family from June 2013 to February 2016. Mr. Welch also served on the Board of Directors of Energy Transfer Equity, L.P., Energy Transfer Partners and Sunoco Logistics. Before joining Energy Transfer Equity, L.P., Mr. Welch was Head of the EMEA Investment Banking Department and Head of the Global Energy Group at Credit Suisse. He was also a member of the Investment Banking Division Global Management Committee and the EMEA Operating Committee. Mr. Welch joined Credit Suisse First Boston in 1997 from Lehman Brothers Inc. in New York, where he was a Senior Vice President in the global utilities and project finance group. Prior to that he was an attorney in New York with Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy and a barrister and solicitor with Minter Ellison in Melbourne, Australia. Mr. Welch received a Bachelors of Law and a Diploma of Legal Practice from Queensland University of Technology.