Troy W. Eckard brings nearly 30 years of energy industry expertise. Troy started his career in the oil and gas industry in 1985 as a licensed investment broker. Troy owned and managed his own investment firm from 1991 until 2008 as the principal owner and CEO.  He has made his career specializing in developing and managing private equity investments targeted at asset specific investments involving individual high net worth investors, family offices, and institutional investors. During his career, his firms have funded private offerings involving oil and gas exploration, water rights acquisitions, seismic survey development and acquisitions, various pipeline and infrastructure opportunities and other tangible assets.  His associated firms have been involved in the drilling and direct participation in excess of 450 wells drilled to date, ranging from conventional to non-conventional trends utilizing horizontal drilling since the 1980s and frac stimulations. Mr. Eckard has been involved either as a managing partner, aligned investor or issuer of investment securities that involved the drilling and exploration, completion and distribution of revenues for wells that have resulted in drilling depths that exceeded 3,000,000' and covered more than 3,000 square miles of mineral acres of leases in seven states. He currently serves as Chairman of the Board of Triangle Energy Services Corporation (TESC), a principal partner in Kinetica Partners, LLC, CEO of Eckard Global, CEO of Eckard Recovery Services and President of American Energy Partners, Inc.