Bridge Associates LLC Announces Energy / Oil & Gas Expert Scott M. Pinsonnault Joins the Firm

Dallas, TX- August 3, 2009 - Bridge Associates LLC, a leading national turnaround, crisis management and financial advisory services firm, announced today that energy / oil & gas expert Scott M. Pinsonnault has joined the firm as a leader in Bridge’s growing Energy Turnaround and Restructuring Practice.

“We are delighted to welcome Scott to the Energy practice team,” stated Louis E. Robichaux IV, Managing Director and Co-Managing Member of Bridge Associates. “Mr. Pinsonnault’s breadth of experience as both an operator and financier in the energy and oil & gas sectors will be a tremendous asset to the firm’s growing energy restructuring practice.”     

Scott M. Pinsonnault joins Bridge as a Director in the Dallas office. Mr. Pinsonnault will be part of the senior management team focusing on Bridge's energy practice.

Mr. Pinsonnault is a 15-year veteran of the oil & gas, energy and energy financial services industries.  Mr. Pinsonnault began his oil & gas career as a geoscientist with Texaco in New Orleans, Louisiana.  For the last nine years he advanced in a career of principal investing and lending to oil & gas and energy companies with two large publicly-traded investment companies.

“Scott has aggregated an impressive set of oil & gas technical and operating skills as well as broad-based principal investing, lending, management and restructuring experience,” said David N. Phelps, Managing Director and Co-Managing Member of Bridge Associates.

Mr. Pinsonnault received a BS in Geology from St. Lawrence University, an MS in Geology and Geophysics from Texas A&M University and an MBA from Tulane University.  He is a member of the American Bankruptcy Institute, the Turnaround Management Association, the Association of Insolvency & Restructuring Advisors, as well as numerous oil & gas industry and professional associations. Click here for contact information and full bio