Daniel J. Shapiro is the Co-Founder, Managing Partner, and CEO of Fidelis New Energy, LLC. Prior to founding Fidelis, Mr. Shapiro was Co-Founder, Managing Partner, Chairman of the Investment Committee, and Chief Compliance Officer at First Infrastructure Capital Advisors, LLC, and served as President of the General Partner of First Infrastructure Capital, LP.
During his tenure at First Infrastructure Capital, Mr. Shapiro served on the board of Whitewater Midstream, LLC, a leading U.S. natural gas infrastructure developer headquartered in Austin, Texas.
Before First Infrastructure, he served as Global Head of Infrastructure Investments for Quanta Services, Inc. and was the founding President of Quanta Capital Solutions, the firm’s project investment division. In this capacity, Mr. Shapiro led strategic investments and board engagements across the infrastructure sector. He served on the boards of several premier U.S. infrastructure companies, including Howard Energy Partners, Arcanum Infrastructure (parent of Raven, a Butene-1 facility in Baytown, Texas), and Maurepas Pipeline Company.
Under his leadership, Quanta Capital also executed investments in landmark energy and infrastructure projects such as Lincoln Clean Energy (acquired by Ørsted North America) and Alberta PowerLine, the largest high-voltage transmission public-private partnership in North America at the time. Alberta PowerLine was widely recognized in the industry and named 2017 PFI Project Deal of the Year.
Prior to Quanta, Mr. Shapiro held multiple senior executive roles at The Shaw Group Inc., a Fortune 500 NYSE-listed engineering and construction firm. His roles included General Counsel; President of Shaw Capital, Inc. and Shaw Infrastructure Investments, Inc.; Executive Vice President of Shaw Environmental & Infrastructure, Inc.; Senior Vice President of Mergers and Acquisitions; Global Head of Infrastructure Investments; and President of both Shaw International, Inc. and Stone & Webster Consultants. In these roles, he led infrastructure strategy and execution across sectors including telecommunications, energy, midstream, downstream, and renewables.
Earlier in his career, Mr. Shapiro was Chief Legal Officer and Executive Vice President of Government and Regulatory Relations at Actel Integrated Communications. He also practiced law at Gordon, Arata, McCollum, Duplantis & Eagan, where he represented clients such as Cox Communications during the pivotal deregulation period following the Telecommunications Act of 1996.
Mr. Shapiro also attained the rank of Major in the Military Intelligence Corps and the Judge Advocate General Corps of the United States Army through his service in the Louisiana National Guard. He specialized in combat operational law and served in the 415th Military Intelligence Battalion and the 256th Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Louisiana Brigade).
He is a graduate with honors of the LSU Paul M. Hebert Law Center, where he was Editor-in-Chief of the Law Review and a member of the Order of the Coif. He later returned to LSU Law as Adjunct Professor of Ethics and Professionalism.
His prior honors and affiliations include:
- Distinguished Military Graduate, U.S. Army ROTC
- Recipient, Michelle Pitard Wynne Professionalism and Ethics Award, Louisiana State Bar Association
- Fellow, Louisiana Bar Foundation
- Editorial Board Member, Louisiana Bar Journal
- Board Member, Istrouma Area Council, Boy Scouts of America
- Senior Warden, Vestry of St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, Houston, Texas