• Specialize in delivering corporate finance solutions to middle-market and corporate players in the oil and gas industry.• Focus on Exploration & Production, refining and midstream sectors.• Advise energy executives on a broad spectrum of capital raising and risk management activities, including secured borrowing base credit facilities, second lien, mezzanine debt and equity, commodity derivatives and treasury management.• Intimate knowledge of reserve-based engineering and the related issues.• Extensive experience in E&P cash flow modeling (i.e. effect on cash flows and PV10 values of multi-stage drilling programs, commodity prices, basis differentials, LOE and CAPEX assumptions, conversion of PUD/PDNP to PDP, etc.).• Knowledge of key North American oil and gas plays and key metrics.• Broad client base experience, from start-up E&P companies funded by private equity to public corporate oil and gas producers and MLP’s.

• Middle-market commercial banking.• Loan portfolio consisted of both public and private companies with annual revenues of $200 million to $2 billion.• Broad scope of responsibility included all aspects of the lending process, from business development to credit structuring, loan approval, legal documentation preparation and closing.