ROBERT SINNOTT

President, Chief Investment Officer and Co-Managing Partner

Mr. Sinnott is president and chief investment officer of Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors LP, an $8.8 billion firm which manages energy private equity partnerships, energy, shipping and rate of return hedge funds, and energy closed end funds, as well as growth equity, real estate and mezzanine debt partnerships in Los Angeles, Houston and New York. Mr. Sinnott is also co-managing partner of Kayne's energy private equity activities which include the origination and execution of private investments in the oil and gas, oil field services and infrastructure industries. Mr. Sinnott is a director of several energy companies including Plains All American Pipeline, L.P., a large publicly traded MLP.

Prior to joining Kayne Anderson in 1992, Mr. Sinnott was a senior securities officer of Citibank’s Investment Banking Division from 1986 to 1992, concentrating in energy, high-yield corporate buyouts, and restructuring opportunities in Houston, Texas and Los Angeles, California. From 1981 to 1986, he served as director of corporate finance for United Energy Resources in Houston. Mr. Sinnott began his career in the financial industry in 1976 as a vice president and debt analyst for Bank of America, also in Houston.

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.