CONFERENCE SPEAKERS
Robert V. Sinnott
CEO & President, Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors
Mr. Sinnott is President, CEO, and CIO of Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors, one of the leading alternative investment management firms with $19 billion in assets under management as of January 31, 2013. Mr. Sinnott is a thought leader on energy investing and chairs Kayne’s investment committees. In addition to helping build the firm’s $17 billion in energy investments, Mr. Sinnott co-manages the energy private equity activities, which include the origination and execution of private investments in the oil and gas, oil field services and infrastructure industries.
Immediately prior to joining Kayne Anderson, Mr. Sinnott was a member of Citibank's LBO Swat team for the energy and airline spaces and led its syndication activities in Southern California. Mr. Sinnott and five others opened Bank of America's energy lending activities in Houston in 1976 and was a member of the finance team for a large diversified pipeline company from 1981 to 1986.
Mr. Sinnott is a director of several energy companies including Plains All American Pipeline, L.P., a large publicly traded MLP.
Mr. Sinnott earned a B.A. in Economics from the University of Virginia in 1971 and an M.B.A. in Finance from the Harvard Business School in 1976, after serving three years aboard the U.S.S. Forrestal as a lieutenant j.g. He also is a member of the board of visitors of UCLA's Anderson School of Management.
