A new kind of financial partner for entrepreneurs in the global energy services and equipment sector

Who We Are

Voyager is a private equity firm focused exclusively on the global energy services and equipment (“ES&E”) market. Our mission is not complicated. We want to be the preeminent financial partner to ES&E entrepreneurs. The name Voyager represents our long-term partnerships with best-in-class entrepreneurs and embarking on a journey together through the ups, downs and surprises of the sector. We want to build companies that are high growth and have durable differentiation. Voyager is unique from other firms for a variety of reasons, but two are particularly important for potential partners to understand:

Voyager’s limited partner base is primarily experienced energy executives and entrepreneurs that understand and are excited about investing in the sector. Voyager LPs do not include large endowments and institutional money management firms.
Our investments have no set time horizon, and we are not opposed to holding a profitable business that is generating strong cash returns for a long time.

Key Foundations

Specialists

We have spent our entire careers in the ES&E industry. We will focus only on this sector.

Value-Add Partners

We do not operate businesses ourselves but avail our experience, relationships, and business and strategy expertise to our portfolio companies. Voyager will also assist in formulating, executing, and funding growth plans and add-on acquisition strategies.

Business Builders

We are business builders, not business arbitrageurs. Voyager exists to create long-term value in differentiated companies. We do not have a set time horizon on our investments and may hold certain businesses indefinitely.

Believers In Extreme Transparency

We believe that partnerships do not work without trust and candor. We will be clear in our motives and honest even when it could be economically disadvantageous to the firm to do so.

Principals

Managing Partner

David Watson

David is a Houston native with 20 years of corporate finance experience exclusively in the energy services and equipment sector. Before founding Voyager, he spent 12 years at Simmons & Company as one of the Managing Directors leading its ES&E investment banking practice. At Simmons and prior firms, David has worked on more than 100 M&A, IPO, and public and private capital raise transactions valued at more than $10 billion.

While David has advised on large public company and private equity transactions, much of his career has focused on advising middle market entrepreneurs and their management teams on critical business decisions. Passion for working alongside the entrepreneurial community drove his decision to start Voyager in early 2020.

David received an MBA from The University Of Chicago Booth School Of Business and a BBA in Finance from Texas A&M University.

David and his wife Nia have three kids – Walker, Gracie and Annie. He stays active in his free time playing golf, enjoying the outdoors with family, and cooking.

Direct Phone: 713.291.6300
Email: david@voyagerinterests.com

Daniel Arrant | Operating Partner

Operating Partner

Daniel Arrant

Daniel’s career has been spent building new businesses and successfully leading growing companies. Most recently, Daniel served as Chief Executive Officer of Kingsley Construction (“Kingsley”), which was sold to MasTec (NYSE: MTZ) in January 2019. Daniel led Kingsley’s effort to pivot from heavy civil construction projects to oil and gas water infrastructure in 2010. Since that time, Kingsley grew to become the largest constructor of water infrastructure in the oil and gas industry, and had more than 1,000 employees at the time of its sale to MasTec.

In 2011, Daniel led the purchase and permitting of water rights along the Rio Grande River and entered into long term, take-or-pay contracts with E&P operators completing wells in the Eagle Ford Shale. To date, this enterprise has sold more than 235 million barrels of source water.

Daniel also led a successful water sourcing operation in the Permian Basin and entered into a long-term agreement to secure exclusive water rights to the Red Bluff Reservoir on the Texas/New Mexico border in 2016. Red Bluff is the largest surface water source in the Permian and centrally located in the most active area of the Delaware Basin. This enterprise has sold more than 75 million barrels of water to blue chip Majors and Independents operating in both Texas and New Mexico.

Daniel graduated with a BBA degree from Texas A&M University. He and his wife Lindsay have three children – Garrett, Reagan and Reid. When he is not building businesses, Daniel enjoys traveling, golf, hunting and fishing.

Direct Phone: 832.210.8882
Email: daniel@voyagerinterests.com