HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sep 16, 2026--
EIV Capital, LLC announced the addition of Kristin Kelly to the firm's partnership. Ms. Kelly brings nearly two decades of energy investing, private equity, and transaction experience spanning the upstream sector and broader energy value chain. At EIV Capital, she will primarily focus on the firm’s upstream strategy, working alongside Claire Harvey and Jason Tracton on acquisition sourcing, underwriting, and portfolio management for EIV Resources.
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“Kristin and I worked together earlier in our careers, so I know firsthand the discipline she brings to underwriting energy assets through multiple cycles,” said Claire Harvey, partner and CEO of EIV Resources. “Her experience investing across the upstream capital structure is a rare perspective in this market, and I'm excited to welcome her to the team.”
Patricia Melcher, founder and managing partner of EIV Capital, added, “EIV Resources has grown from a new strategy into a core offering and we are delighted to add Kristin’s high caliber talent to our growing team. Her breadth of upstream investment experience further positions EIV Resources to capture the robust opportunity set in front of us.”
Prior to joining EIV Capital, Ms. Kelly was a managing director at EIG, where she most recently served as Head of Traditional Energy – Americas, leading the firm’s North American upstream investment strategy. During her tenure at EIG, Ms. Kelly worked on credit, structured equity and common equity investments and served as a board member for several portfolio companies. Prior to joining EIG in 2017, Ms. Kelly worked at Tudor, Pickering, Holt & Co. where she was a vice president in the firm’s private equity business after starting in the firm’s investment banking group. Ms. Kelly received her B.B.A. in Finance from Texas A&M University.
“EIV Capital has built a differentiated energy investment platform with a high-quality team, several of whom I worked with earlier in my career,” said Kristin Kelly. “It’s the ideal foundation to execute on the opportunity set I see ahead in energy, and I’m excited to work alongside the team to build on the momentum they’ve already created and to continue growing the business.”
About EIV Capital
Founded in 2009, EIV Capital is a multi-strategy Houston-based private equity firm specializing in providing capital to businesses across the North American energy value chain. EIV Capital blends internal operational and engineering expertise with its financial and strategic oversight to allocate capital in businesses which create value through growing and enhancing infrastructure assets or acquiring non-operated oil and gas interests. The firm’s management has extensive experience leading and investing in successful companies across the energy value chain. For more information, visit eivcapital.com.
EIV Capital Adds Kristin Kelly as Partner
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A European Union-backed court on Wednesday convicted former Kosovo President Hashim Thaci of four counts of war crimes committed during his country’s war for independence from Serbia and sentenced him to 25 years in prison.
Thaci, 58, resigned from office nearly six years ago to face the charges. He was convicted by a panel of judges at the Kosovo Specialist Chambers of murder, torture, cruel treatment and arbitrary detention. Both he and the prosecutors, who had asked for a stricter sentence, can appeal.
The judgment sparked anger among Thaci’s supporters and was a crushing blow for a man who was once embraced by the West, invited to the 1999 peace talks in France and seen as the leader who could guide Kosovo to independence.
Presiding Judge Charles Smith said Thaci actively participated in and encouraged crimes, including by promoting individuals involved in crimes, and “showed a ruthless ability to remove and eliminate political impediments” to his and other commanders' leadership.
Wearing a suit and tie, Thaci stood in silence as Smith read out the sentence.
Kosovo Foreign Minister Glauk Konjufca condemned the verdicts as “a terrible judgment for Kosovo, for our people and for our liberation war.”
Hundreds of supporters waited at a park near the courthouse in The Hague, and some clashed briefly with Dutch riot police, who said on X that they detained two people.
In Kosovo's capital, Pristina, thousands of people watched the hearing live on a huge screen and were stunned by the sentence. Some shouted “UCK,” the Albanian-language acronym for the Kosovo Liberation Army that Thaci once led before entering politics.
One supporter, Bekim Fetahu, said the verdict was “a catastrophic decision.”
“They (judges) have put the victims together with the aggressors,” Fetahu added.
Later, masked protesters threw stones at the wall surrounding the compound of the European Union Rule of Law Mission in Kosovo, known as EULEX, on the outskirts of Pristina, smashing several windows.
Smith, the presiding judge, said Thaci “used his position, leadership, authority and standing” to encourage crimes and failed to investigate or punish abuse by KLA fighters.
However, the American judge also stressed that the trial was “not about the legitimacy of the Kosovo Liberation Army” or its ultimate goal of securing independence for Kosovo, which at the time was a province in Serbia.
Thaci was on trial with three other former KLA leaders who fought Serb forces in the 1998-99 war and are widely regarded as national heroes in Kosovo. They pleaded not guilty to all charges against them.
The four were acquitted on six charges of crimes against humanity because the judges said the prosecutors failed to prove that crimes were committed as part of a widespread and systematic attack on civilians.
They were found guilty of the war crimes of the arbitrary detention of 385 people, cruel treatment of 49, torture of 303 detainees and the murder of 96 people.
Thaci and the other defendants, Kadri Veseli, Rexhep Selimi and Jakup Krasniqi, all maintained their innocence. Veseli was sentenced to 18 years, Selimi to 13 years and Krasniqi to 25 years in prison.
Veseli's lawyer, Rodney Dixon, described the judgment as “not a good day for Kosovo. It’s not a good day for the rule of law or international law” and said he would “mount a robust appeal to continue the fight to show Mr. Veseli’s innocence and to bring him home to Kosovo.”
As his trial ended in February, Thaci told judges: “Throughout my life, I stood with the people of Kosovo, defending freedom, life and dignity. I was always guided by the Western ideals of democracy, equality and justice.”
But the court ruled that Thaci and his co-defendants targeted political opponents and civilians perceived as collaborators and traitors during their time in the KLA.
“In reality, there is no indication that the victims in this case were spies or collaborators,” Smith said. Just having “Serbian friends or jobs in Serbian companies was enough to treat them as collaborators” of the enemy.
When fighting broke out, Thaci was a student who returned from what he described as political exile in Switzerland to join Kosovo’s struggle for independence. He earned the nickname “the Snake” for his ability to evade Serb forces during the conflict.
Thaci rose to political power after the war but resigned as president to defend himself before the court in The Hague.
Esther Major, Amnesty International’s deputy regional director for Europe, said the convictions “show that senior officials are not above the law.”
Most of the 13,000 people who died in the war in Kosovo were ethnic Albanians. A 78-day campaign of NATO airstrikes against Serbian forces ended the fighting. About 1 million ethnic Albanian Kosovars were driven from their homes.
In 2008, Kosovo declared its independence from Serbia, a move that Belgrade refuses to recognize. Ties between Kosovo and Serbia remain tense, despite years of EU-mediated negotiations supported by the United States.
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said he plans to address the nation on Wednesday about the verdicts and the “situation in the region.”
Associated Press reporters Zana Cimili in Pristina, Kosovo, Jovana Gec in Belgrade, Serbia, and Molly Quell in The Hague contributed to this report.
FILE - Head of Kosovo Parliament Kadri Veseli, left, congratulates newly elected president of Kosovo Hashim Thaci during a parliamentary session in Kosovo capital Pristina on Friday Feb. 26, 2016. (AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu, File)
FILE - Kosovo Liberation Army leader Hashim Thaci, right, and KLA general commander Agim Ceku attend a memorial ceremony for ethnic Albanian leader Fehmi Agani in Pristina, Kosovo, Friday, Aug. 6, 1999. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis, File)
FILE - Hashim Thaci, head of the Kosovo Albanian negotiation team and head of the Kosovo Liberation Army political directorate, center, addresses a press conference in a secret location in central Kosovo, Saturday, March 13, 1999. (AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu, File)
People rally in Pristina, Kosovo, Saturday, Sept. 12, 2026, in support of the former president Hashim Thaci and the other defendants, Kadri Veseli, Rexhep Selimi and Jakup Krasniqi ahead of their verdicts next week at a Netherlands-based court which tried them for alleged war crimes during a 1998-1999 separatist war from Serbia. (AP Photo/Zana Cimili)
People rally in Pristina, Kosovo, Saturday, Sept. 12, 2026, in support of the former president Hashim Thaci and the other defendants, Kadri Veseli, Rexhep Selimi and Jakup Krasniqi ahead of their verdicts next week at a Netherlands-based court which tried them for alleged war crimes during a 1998-1999 separatist war from Serbia. (AP Photo/Zana Cimili) ADDITION: adds the names of the former president Hashim Thaci and the other defendants, Kadri Veseli, Rexhep Selimi and Jakup Krasniqi
People rally in Pristina, Kosovo, Saturday, Sept. 12, 2026, in support of the former president Hashim Thaci and the other defendants, Kadri Veseli, Rexhep Selimi and Jakup Krasniqi ahead of their verdicts next week at a Netherlands-based court which tried them for alleged war crimes during a 1998-1999 separatist war from Serbia. (AP Photo/Zana Cimili)
FILE - Former Kosovo president Hashim Thaci, top left, appears before the Kosovo Tribunal as he defends himself against charges including murder, torture and persecution allegedly committed during his country's war for independence from Serbia in the Hague, on April 3, 2023. (Koen van Weel/Pool via AP, File)
