D. Martin “Marty” Phillips is managing director and principal of EnCap Investments. EnCap Investments is a funds management and investment banking firm that provides private equity to independent oil and gas companies and currently manages capital on behalf of fifty institutions in the United States and Europe.

Phillips is a Baton Rouge native. He joined RepublicBank Dallas in 1978 and served as vice president and manager of the energy loan production office in Denver. He then became senior vice president and division manager of the Houston office. RepublicBank Dallas became NCNB Texas National Bank, and Phillips became senior vice president of the energy banking group in Dallas. He left NCNB Texas National Bank to join EnCap in 1989.

Phillips earned a Bachelor of Science in business administration in 1975 and an MBA in 1977 from LSU. He was a defensive lineman for the LSU Tiger football team from 1971-75, led by the late Coach Charlie McClendon. He also attended the Stonier Graduate School of Banking at Rutgers University. Phillips is a member of the Independent Petroleum Association of America and serves on the board of Plains Resources Corporation. He is also on the board of Small Steps Nurturing Center, an early childhood education program for economically at-risk youth in Houston’s First Ward. He established the Donald Lindley and Ruby Wright Phillips Developing Scholar Professorship at LSU in honor of his parents. Phillips was inducted into the Ourso College Hall of Distinction in 2002, the highest honor given to Ourso College alumni.

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