Steve assists with offering structuring, compliance, and syndication efforts. He brings a wealth of experience in syndication of oil and gas offerings through his past experience as President and Chief Compliance Officer of NGAS Securities, Inc, where he successfully raised over $203,000,000 in 14 oil and gas limited partnership offerings and corporate debt financing. In addition, he was Director of Legal Affairs overseeing legal compliance for the company’s 1,400+ oil and gas wells located throughout Kentucky, West Virginia, Virginia, Oklahoma, and Oklahoma while also managing regulatory compliance as a publicly-traded company listed on NASDAQ. In addition, Steve was President and Chief Compliance Officer of KBR Capital Markets, LLC, an alternative investments wholesale broker dealer specializing in the distribution of private placements and publicly registered non-traded real estate investment trusts, business development corporations and master limited partnerships. He also served as General Counsel and Vice President for Frontier Oilfield Services, a public reporting, bulletin board company that specializes in saltwater recovery and drilling fluid disposal for oil and gas drillers and producers in the Haynesville in East Texas and the Barnett shale in North Central Texas. Steve currently serves as Partner at Secore & Waller, LLP. He holds a J.D. from the Louis D. Brandeis School of Law at the University of Louisville and a B.A. from Vanderbilt University.