Meet the Team
Victor Mendoza Managing Partner
Mr. Mendoza founded Legado Capital Advisors in 2024. He brings 15 years of Oil & Gas Corporate and Investment Banking experience. Prior to Legado Capital, Mr. Mendoza was the Head of Structured Finance at Donovan Ventures where he launched the ABS strategy in 2021 advising on nearly $2Bn of ABS transactions.
Prior to joining Donovan Ventures, Mr. Mendoza was a Director at Société Générale focused on upstream transactions in the Americas (U.S., Canada, LatAm). At Societe Generale he was a key member in the firm’s Offshore Financing buildout which grew to over $2Bn in Commitments in 3 years. Mr. Mendoza has participated, originated, structured over $10 billion of energy transactions. Mr. Mendoza began his banking career in Amegy Bank’s Energy Team.
Mr. Mendoza is a graduate from Texas A&M University. He is a Vice Chairman of the Houston Rodeo Parade Committee, a Board Member of Subiaco Academy, and was recently recognized as an honoree in Hart Energy’s Forty Under 40.
Robert Salazar, CFA Director, Capital Markets
Mr. Salazar has over 20 years experience in the securitization industry and oversees the capital markets and distribution effort for Legado Capital Advisors. Prior to joining Legado, Mr. Salazar worked as a Director within Donovan Ventures structured credit group, focusing on Oil & Gas PDP ABS . He also has spent 13 years working as an Institutional Salesperson developing strong relationships within the structured credit investor community with a focus on Insurance, Pension and Asset Manager clientele. His work within Structured Products Sales and Trading includes 9 years with Guggenheim Securities, where he played an intricate role in building out the Esoteric Asset Backed Securities platform as well as working on both new issue distribution and secondary trading across all structured products. Mr. Salazar also spent 4 years with Keybanc Capital Markets primarily focused on leading the ABS sales effort.
Prior to his work on the sell side, Mr. Salazar spent several years on the structured products investment team at Pioneer Investments(now Amundi US) trading and investing in ABS, RMBS, CMBS and CDO bonds, as well as working on the structuring and modeling of new transactions for their CDO issuer platform.
Mr. Salazar holds a B.S. in Finance from the University Of Illinois-Urbana Champaign and an M.B.A from DePaul University. He has his CFA certification and is Series 7 and 63 licensed
Kyle Bulpitt Director
Mr. Bulpitt has ten years of upstream oil and gas experience and is responsible for overall technical valuation at Legado Capital Advisors. Mr. Bulpitt's background focused on asset evaluations, including acquisitions and divestitures and unconventional strategy planning. Prior to Legado Capital Advisors, Mr. Bulpitt was with Donovan Ventures helping launch the structured credit group and was employed at Solomon Partners (formerly PJ Solomon) within the Energy group in Houston. Mr. Bulpitt began his career as a reservoir engineer within the Permian Unconventional group at ConocoPhillips in Houston.
Mr. Bulpitt holds a BS in petroleum engineering, with high distinction, from Texas A&M University.
He is Series 79 and 63 licensed.
Cray Jaeger Vice President
Mr. Jaeger has over seven years of oil and gas investment banking experience and has advised on transactions totaling over $10 billion. Prior to Legado Capital Advisors Mr. Jaeger was a Vice President within Donovan Ventures structured credit team, KPMG within the Energy and Natural Resources team, and Solomon Partners (formerly PJ Solomon) within the Energy group in Houston and M&A group in New York City. Mr. Jaeger’s oil and gas transaction experience include IKAV’s acquisition of San Juan assets from BP, Canyon Midstream’s divesture of certain midstream assets, and Third Coast Midstream’s sale of Eagle Ford gathering assets.
Mr. Jaeger holds a BBA in finance from the University of Texas at Austin.
He is Series 79, 63, and 82 licensed.
