Our Team - Partners

Thomas W. Pritchard
Partner and Managing Director
Thomas W. Pritchard is a native of Virginia, but grew up in Birmingham, Alabama. He graduated from Washington & Lee University with a bachelor’s degree in geology. Tommy has worked for more than 20 years on the sell-side at several financial firms including Johnson Rice and Company, Bear Stearns, Drexel Burnham Lambert and, most recently, Jefferies and Company. In 2000, he founded Pritchard Capital Partners, LLC. Tommy was also a co-founder of Offshore Tool and Energy, an oil service company listed on the London AIM and sold to London Merchant Securities in 2002. He currently serves on the St. Tammany Parish Hospital Foundation board. He lives in Covington, Louisiana.

Marc Bonifacic
Partner, Institutional Sales
Marc Bonifacic is a native of New Orleans, La. He earned a Master of Business Administration degree from Tulane’s A.B. Freeman School of Business and a Bachelor of Science degree in finance from Auburn University. Marc brings 10 years of energy industry experience to Pritchard Capital Partners, LLC.

After joining the firm in May 2003, he built out the West Coast sales efforts. Previously, he worked in the corporate finance groups for Jefferies & Company, Inc and Johnson Rice in addition to covering the oil service industry as an analyst at Johnson Rice. Marc resides in New Orleans.


Thomas A. Escott, CFA
Partner, Institutional Sales
Thomas A. Escott was raised in Ohio. He has a bachelor’s degree in business administration from the University of Toledo and a master’s in business administration from the University of Michigan. Tom has more than 36 years experience following energy stocks including eight years with two bank trust departments followed by 28 years with several brokerage firms including Paine Webber and The Robinson Humphrey Company. He joined Pritchard Capital Partners, LLC in 2002. Tom earned his CFA designation in 1976, and was named to the Institutional Investor All American Research Team in 1984 and 1985. Tom is also a four time winner of the Wall Street Journal All Star Analyst Award. He serves as Chairman of the Phoenix Society of Atlanta, a charitable foundation. He lives in Atlanta, Georgia.

Todd Giustiniano, CPA
Partner and Chief Financial Officer
Todd Giustiniano was raised in New Orleans. He earned a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in accounting from the University of New Orleans. Todd is a licensed CPA, and has twenty years of accounting and financial management experience. He began his career at Deloitte and Touche before moving into various controller and CFO positions with several privately-held companies. Todd lives in Mandeville, Louisiana.

Kenneth Morris
Partner, Institutional Sales
Kenneth R. Morris was raised in Bloomfield, New Jersey. After attending Seton Hall Prep he received a BS degree in Finance and Economics from the University of Delaware. After receiving his degree he started his career on Wall Street as a sell side trader at various investment banks, including Arnhold and S.Bleichroeder as a senior trader, Schroders, Inc and the Royal Bank of Canada as a senior equities trader and director of energy industry trading. Ken also has an MA in Economics from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey and serves as a board member for The Montana Refining Company,Inc, a subsidiary of Connacher Oil and Gas, a Toronto Stock Exchange listed company. In addition, he sits on the board of Appalachian Energy Holdings, LLC, a private energy service company based in Charlestown, West Virginia. Ken resides in Tinton Falls, New Jersey.

Keith Robinson
Partner, Equity Trader
D. Keith Robinson was raised in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He graduated from Louisiana State University with a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering and from Tulane University with a master’s degree in business administration. Keith has worked with Pritchard Capital Partners, LLC for more than six years. Prior to joining the firm, he worked for one and a half years at the Chicago Board Options Exchange and worked for seven years as a mechanical engineer prior to that. He lives in Madisonville, Louisiana.


Stephen A. Landry
Partner, Head of Corporate Finance
Stephen Landry is a native of San Francisco, California but grew up in Houma, Louisiana. Stephen earned a bachelor’s degree in finance from Louisiana State University and a law degree from Loyola School of Law, where he was a member of the Loyola Law Review. He has more than 23 years of experience as a commercial banker, an investment banker, and an attorney to the oil and gas industry. Prior to joining Pritchard Capital Partners, LLC in September 2006, Stephen was senior vice president and chief financial officer of W&T Offshore, Inc. (WTI). Prior to joining W&T Offshore, Inc., Stephen was senior vice president of Energy Corporate Finance for Jefferies & Company, Inc. During his career, Stephen also has practiced law in New Orleans and worked for the energy lending groups of commercial banks in New Orleans and Houston. Stephen is a member of the Independent Petroleum Association of America (IPAA), the Houston Producer’s Forum, and the Professional Landmen’s Association of New Orleans.

John Walsh
Partner, Institutional Sales
John Walsh was raised in the Baltimore, Maryland area. He graduated from Washington & Lee University with a bachelor’s degree in geology and a master’s degree in geology and geophysics from the University of New Orleans. John worked as a Geologist/Geophysicist at C&R Exploration, Inc. in New Orleans where he was part of a team developing exploration drilling prospects, monitoring ongoing drilling operations and managing well site reservoir analysis and completion operations. John has worked in the financial services industry for over 20 years. He worked at several financial firms including Drexel Burnham Lambert, Prudential Securities, Citigroup Smith Barney, and most recently UBS, Inc. In June 2005, John joined Pritchard Capital Partners, LLC as an Institutional Equity Research Salesman and opened the Washington, D.C. office for the firm. He lives near the Georgetown area of Washington, D.C.

John A. Hurd
Vice President, Institutional Sales
John A. Hurd was raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. He graduated from the University of Mississippi. John started on the sell-side with Southcoast Capital in 1997 and worked there until 2003. In 2003, he helped create the institutional capital markets group at Sterne Agee and Leach. John joined Pritchard Capital Partners, LLC in May of 2006. He lives in New Orleans, Louisiana.