Founder

Ann Davis Vaughan founded Reservoir Research Partners in 2010 after two decades as an award-winning investigative and financial journalist, including nearly 14 years as a senior writer at The Wall Street Journal.

Under the longtime byline "Ann Davis," she led global energy and commodity markets coverage for The Wall Street Journal from Houston from 2006 to early 2010. From 2003 to 2005, she covered the paper's critical and fast-paced "Wall Street" beat, reporting on the securities industry from New York. From 1996 to 2002, she held a series of legal and investigative beats. She previously wrote for The Miami Herald and The National Law Journal.

She is a recipient of a 2007 Gerald Loeb award, one of the highest honors in business journalism, for deadline reporting on the energy markets. She won a "Business Journalist of the Year Award" in 2005 from the World Leadership Forum in London for her reporting on mergers and acquisitions. In June 2005, she and other colleagues won a New York Press Club Business Reporting Award for a series exposing conflicts of interest in the securities industry. The Journal nominated the series for a 2004 Pulitzer Prize. Her feature writing has been honored by the American Society of Business Publication Editors and with a National Headliner Award.

Born in Asheville, N.C., Ms. Vaughan earned a bachelor's degree from Princeton University, Summa Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa, and earned a master's degree in print journalism, with honors, from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Ms. Vaughan and her husband live in Houston and have two children.