Daniel J. Kimes
Mr. Kimes was appointed to the DTI Board in April 2026 and has served as a Partner at Arch Energy Partners, a registered private fund adviser and active direct investor focused on upstream oil and gas opportunities at the real-asset level, where he is responsible for deal origination, underwriting, hedging, risk mitigation and fundraising and serves as a member of the Investment Committee. At Arch, his notable transactions have included the acquisition of Reliance Industries’ Appalachia assets and a structured drilling partnership in the Southern Midland Basin. From 2021 to 2023, Mr. Kimes served as Chief Executive Officer and a member of the board of directors of ROC Energy Acquisition Corporation, a $207 million special purpose acquisition company, where he led the sourcing, negotiation and execution of its $319 million business combination with Drilling Tools International Corp. in June 2023 and currently serves as a Board Advisor to DTI’s Board of Directors. Earlier in his career, he held executive roles in energy-focused portfolio companies, including as Co-Founder, Co-Chief Executive Officer and director of Shot Hollow Resources, LLC and as Chief Financial Officer and director of Brigadier Oil & Gas, LLC, where he led acquisitions, commercial negotiations, and a sales process. Mr. Kimes previously worked as a private equity associate at Natural Gas Partners (NGP Energy Capital Management), where he participated in numerous upstream and oilfield-services investments, and began his career in the energy investment-banking group at RBC Capital Markets. He graduated magna cum laude from Southern Methodist University with a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in finance, with Honors in Liberal Arts and Business, and holds a Master of Business Administration from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.