Biography

Daniel Kimes was appointed to the Drilling Tools International Board in April 2026. He is a Partner at Arch Energy Partners, a registered private-fund adviser and direct investor focused on upstream oil-and-gas opportunities. At Arch Energy Partners, Mr. Kimes is responsible for deal origination, underwriting, hedging, risk mitigation, and fundraising, and he serves on the firm’s Investment Committee.

From 2021 to 2023, Mr. Kimes served as Chief Executive Officer and a director of ROC Energy Acquisition Corporation, a special purpose acquisition company. In that role, he led the sourcing, negotiation, and execution of ROC Energy Acquisition Corporation’s business combination with Drilling Tools International in June 2023.

Earlier in his career, Mr. Kimes held executive roles with 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. He also worked as a private-equity associate at Natural Gas Partners and began his career in the energy-investment-banking group at RBC Capital Markets.

Mr. Kimes graduated magna cum laude from Southern Methodist University with a Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance and honors in Liberal Arts and Business. He holds a Master of Business Administration from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.