Daniel Mahoney

Executive Summary

Dan Mahoney has over 25 years experience in private equity, banking, investment banking, accounting, oil and gas investing, and corporate management. During his career Mr. Mahoney was first employed by KPMG for nine years, first in the audit department then progressing up to a senior manager in their mergers and acquisitions department. He has also worked for several years in banking industry, both with National Westminster Bank and First Interstate Bank, as a vice president in each of their leveraged finance departments. He also worked for Houlihan Lokey Howard & Zukin as a vice president in the corporate finance and valuation department and as Chief Financial Officer for Buzzeo Inc, an early stage software development company. During his career, Mr. Mahoney has participated in over 100 transactions as advisor, financer, or principal.

Professional Experience Summary

In 1999, Mr. Mahoney sponsored the buyout of Auto Safety House, the largest school bus distributor in the state of Arizona. Working with Rocky Mountain Capital Partners, a private equity group he selected, Mr. Mahoney assisted in the due diligence, helped locate and negotiate the bank financing and assisted in the negotiations with the seller and in legal matters. After acquiring the company, he served as Chief Financial Officer, transitioning the company from family ownership to private equity ownership. Throughout the ownership period, he sat on the company’s Board of Directors and oversaw finance, accounting and banking matters until the company was sold in 2007 after nearly doubling the size of the company.

In 2002, Mr. Mahoney formed and managed Maverick Energy, LLC which managed several oil and gas limited partnerships that invested in a variety of projects with SandRidge Energy, Inc. (formerly Riata Energy, Inc.), a vertically integrated natural gas company headquartered in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Mr. Mahoney and his partners invested $15 million in several natural gas well, pipeline and processing plant projects located in both the Permian Basin in Texas and the Piceance Basin in Colorado. Most of these investments were sold in 2008. From 2003 through 2005, he also sat on the Board of Directors of Petro Source Energy, a tertiary oil recovery company.

Education

		1989 Masters In Finance, New York University’s Stern School of Business
		1979 BA Accounting, Saint Bonaventure University
		Former CPA, former Senior Member of the American Society of Appraisers in business valuation and a former Certified Insolvency and Restructuring Accountant