I am an individual investor with over 15 years of corporate finance and structuring experience. As a senior energy industry investment banker at First Union / Wachovia from 1995 to 2008, I covered a broad spectrum of products including direct equity investments, initial public offerings (IPOs), equity-linked securities, private equity, public bonds, and loan syndications. During my investment banking career, I experienced the growth of master limited partnerships (MLPs) first hand and worked on hundreds of corporate finance transactions. I founded MLP Protocol in 2008 to focus on MLP investments.