Thomas N. Zickell founded Pearl Street to finance the equipment, land and projects that bring new generation onto the grid. He is also Chief Executive Officer and cofounder of GSTJ LLC, where he originates and invests across three connected sectors: defense, energy and data-center infrastructure. His work is centered on the physical equipment and project relationships that determine whether power capacity can move from an idea to an operating asset, including gas-turbine acquisition, refurbishment and resale across aeroderivative packages and heavy-duty frame machines.
Zickell also serves as Chairman of Data Power Investments, a closed-end turbine acquisition fund. Within that role, the focus remains on identifying equipment positions, understanding the technical and commercial work required to make them useful, and connecting assets with buyers, operators and projects that have a defined need. Turbine value depends on provenance, condition, configuration, documentation, service requirements and a credible path to deployment, not on nameplate capacity alone.
A chemical engineer by training, Zickell holds a granted United States patent arising from his engineering work. He serves on the advisory boards of StratGrid Inc. and Jassby Inc. and is the founder of Blueprint Marketing.