Daniel L. Spears has 19 years of investment management and investment banking experience in the natural resource sector. He was an investment banker in the Natural Resources Group at Bank of America Securities LLC for eight years. He also worked in the Global Energy and Power Investment Banking Group at Salomon Smith Barney. Mr. Spears serves on the boards of Central Energy, LP and Lonestar Midstream, L.P.

Mr. Spears received his B.S. in Economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He joined Swank Capital in 2006.