Erik Ludtke Bio

Erik Ludtke is an Operating Partner of NOVA. Erik has 38 years of experience in the global energy industry serving in various executive roles in business development and operations in which he identified potential acquisitions, integrated operations, and fully commercialized business assets. Erik serves on NOVA’s Investment and Executive Committees. Currently, Erik serves on the Boards of Directors for Fund I’s portfolio companies Hawthorne Aviation and Nopetro Renewables. Prior to joining NOVA in 2019, Erik was the Chief Commercial Officer at NextDecade, a liquified natural gas development company based in Houston, Texas. Prior to NextDecade, from 2015 to 2018, Erik was a Senior Vice President of Commercial and Business Development at Northstar Midstream, a portfolio company of Highstar Capital Fund IV, L.P., where he was responsible for the commercialization of existing assets and development of new midstream business opportunities. He also previously served as Chief Operating Officer at Kiewit Midstream and as Vice President of Gas Marketing and Transportation, Americas at Talisman Energy. Earlier in his career, Erik worked at Peabody Energy and Apache, and also served in various in-country executive roles in Argentina, Israel, India and London with BG Group, Duke Energy and Enron. Erik holds a B.S. in Economics from Texas A&M University and certificates from Wharton School of Business Executive Development Program and International Development Program in Kyoto, Japan.