Hugh "Skip" McGee III

Hugh E. "Skip" McGee III (born 1959) is an American investment banker from Texas, ex-Lehman Brothers and Barclays executive and currently co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Intrepid Financial Partners, a power and energy focused merchant bank.

McGee graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University in civil engineering in 1981, and received a JD with honors from the University of Texas School of Law.

McGee began his career as a banker in the energy sector in 1987. He joined Lehman Brothers' natural resources group in 1992. He was co-head of Lehman Brothers' global energy practice in Houston, organising the $3.4 billion rescue of energy trader Williams Cos. in 2002. In December 2002 McGee became global head of investment banking in New York, succeeding Bradley Jack. He was in charge of equity, debt, and mergers and acquisitions, and he introduced a new system that rewarded bankers for solving clients' problems instead of selling products, and a new slogan, "Investment banking is a team sport." Banking at Lehman under McGee returned revenues of $11.6 billion in 2004, but was still under pressure from Chief Operating Officer Joe Gregory for better performance; he disagreed with Gregory's management of Lehman.

McGee was involved in negotiations for Lehman with Warren Buffett in March 2008 over a possible investment, and then with the president of Barclays regarding a possible merger in September 2008, shortly before Lehman filed for bankruptcy. McGee joined Barclays Capital as head of Global Investment Banking at the end of that month, and managed the merger of Lehman Brothers' investment bank team into Barclays Capital. He helped Barclays achieve a $3 billion profit in the first quarter of 2009. He reports to Roger Jenkins, chief executive of private equity at Barclays Capital, and he heads the investment banking executive committee. In 2010, McGee noted that the markets were focussing on "plain vanilla" options rather than "esoteric CDOs."

McGee is on the advisory councils of the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin, and the Bendheim Center for Finance at Princeton.

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