Scott Steger is the Founder and Managing Partner at Deer Trail Energy. Scott previously served as a Director at Stronghold Resource Partners and Expedition Royalty, where he managed a long-term mineral investment portfolio of over $500 million in assets. Scott has extensive experience working with mineral owners and walking them through the value of their assets (from 1 acre to 1,000 acres!).
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Prior to Stronghold, Scott was a Finance Manager at Guidon Energy, a Blackstone backed upstream company with assets in the Midland Basin. At Guidon, Scott evaluated over $1 billion in leasehold and royalty transactions, led the budgeting and forecasting process, and managed the commodity hedging program. Prior to joining Guidon, Scott worked as an Associate at Aethon Energy, a Dallas-based private equity firm, helping the company execute on over $400 million of M&A transactions.
 
Prior to Aethon, Mr. Steger spent three years as an Investment Banking Analyst at Scotiabank in Houston and London, with a focus on Upstream and Midstream M&A. Mr. Steger earned a Bachelor of Arts in Financial Economics and Philosophy from Vanderbilt University.