Mr. Travers started his career in Mortgage-Backed Bonds at Morgan Stanley headquarters in New York. He was recruited by one of Morgan Stanley’s corporate clients (Burlington Resources Inc – now part of Conoco Phillips) where he served as head of Credit and Collections for their $1 billion+ natural gas portfolio. Later, he worked as CEO of Baader Securities and helped the Baader Bank Group become the largest securities trade banking group in Germany and Baader Securities (now PPF Asset Management) become the largest asset manager in the Czech Republic with app. $10 billion+ of AUM. After Baader, he was a co-founder of Sindicatum Sustainable Resources and GP of the investment fund, which provided the bulk of liquidity for group activities. Mr. Travers received his B.A. from Trinity College and an MBA in Finance from Texas Christian University.