Mr. John W. Arms is a Co-Founder of Enduro Royalty Trust and Executive Vice President. Mr. Arms is the Founder of Enduro Resource Partners LLC and serves as its Manager. He served as the Chief Operating Officer at Enduro Royalty Trust. He served as Senior Vice President of Acquisitions of Encore Acquisition Co. from February, 2007 to March 2010. He has over 20 years of experience working in various capacities in the energy industry, including acquisition analysis, reserve estimation, reservoir engineering and operations engineering. Mr. Arms served as Senior Vice President of Acquisitions of Encore Energy Partners GP LLC - general partner at Encore Energy Partners LP since February, 2007. He was an Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Enduro Sponsor since March 2010. He co-founded Enduro Sponsor in March 2010. He served as Vice President of Business Development of Encore Acquisition Co. from September 2001 to February 2007. From November 1998 to September 2001, Mr. Arms served in various petroleum engineering positions for Encore Acquisition Co. Prior to Encore Acquisition Co. in November 1998, he served as a Senior Reservoir Engineer for Union Pacific Resources and an Engineer at XTO Energy, Inc. He held various positions of responsibility at ARCO Oil and Gas Company. Mr. Arms received a Bachelor of Science in Petroleum Engineering from the Colorado School of Mines in 1991.