Dave was previously a Partner and Chief Technical Officer of Millennial Energy Partners, which made upstream investments across all the major onshore unconventional plays of North America. He began his career as a geologist in the Gulf of Mexico with Chevron and would go on to lead development and exploration efforts in West Africa and Brazil. Dave brings more than a decade of leading subsurface technical teams focused on finding and developing oil and gas in basins across the world. He received his B.S. in Geology from the Ohio State University, his M.S. in Geophysics from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and is currently pursing a M.S. in Data Science and Machine Learning from Southern Methodist University.