Vivakor announced the appointment of David Kovacs as Director of Finance, effective March 1, 2014. Kovacs is the head of Investment Banking, Private Equity, and Research for the Americas, for Fitch Learning (Fitch Ratings). Prior to Fitch, Kovacs was a Managing Director at The Hindu Group.

He has held various Investment Banking and Private Equity roles at Blackstone Group and Citigroup. Kovacs has and continues to lecture at many of the leading investment banks, private equity firms, sovereign wealth funds, and government agencies, including: the Securities & Exchange Commission, New York City Controller Office, Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, JP Morgan Chase, Barclays, Citigroup, RBC, RBS, Lazard, Morgan Stanley, and Deutsche Bank.