Daniel Leonard Spears

Cushing Asset Management LP is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Dallas, Texas. The firm was founded by Jerry Swank in 2003 and they are a wholly-owned subsidiary of Swank Capital LLC. Cushing Asset Management provides investment management services on a discretionary basis to high net-worth individuals and institutional investors through Private Funds, Mutual Funds, ETFs, Closed-End Funds and Managed Accounts. They also offer discretionary investment management services as part of various wrap fee programs offered by investment advisers/broker-dealers.

NXG Cushing Midstream Energy Fund is a non-diversified, closed-end management investment company. Its investment objective is to obtain a high after-tax total return from a combination of capital appreciation and current income. The company was founded on May 23, 2007 and is headquartered in Dallas, TX.

Cushing Energy Income Fund is a non-diversified, closed-end management investment company. The company's investment objective through investments in public and private energy companies. Its objective is to seek a high total return with an emphasis on current income by investing in a portfolio of energy-related US royalty trusts and Canadian royalty trusts, and exploration and production companies. The company was founded on July 18, 2011 and is headquartered in Dallas, TX.

Headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, Banc of America Securities (BAS) is the investment banking subsidiary of Bank of America Corp (NYSE: BAC). The firm provides both the domestic and international equity and investment banking markets, and pursues a strategy pioneered by Citigroup that combines corporate lending with investment banking advice and services. They provide high-yield debt underwriting and leveraged finance, in addition to industry coverage groups such as healthcare, media and telecom, financial institutions, real estate and gaming. BAS also does a significant amount of work for Financial Sponsors, or private equity firms, often financing leveraged transactions. Following the strategy of Goldman Sachs, the firm lacks a standalone mergers and acquisitions department, instead employing mergers and acquisitions senior bankers throughout the industry coverage groups. The firm is registered as a broker/dealer with the SEC, is a member of the NYSE, and the NASD. The use of Banc in the BAS's name is indicative of the fact that the company is not a bank, and their deposits and other holdings are not insured by the FDIC.

Swank Capital LLC is an independent investment advisory firm headquartered in Dallas, Texas. The firm was founded by Jerry Swank in 2001 and provides investment advice to individual and institutional clients.

Quest Midstream Partners LP operates a gas gathering system and transportation pipelines in Cherokee Basin located in 15 counties of southeastern Kansas and northeastern Oklahoma. The company's pipeline network provides connections to both intrastate and interstate delivery pipelines. It was founded in December 2006 and is headquartered in Oklahoma City, OK.