Kelcy Warren is a billionaire who founded Energy Transfer Partners, L.P., in 1995 with $10 million of seed capital. The company is currently North America’s largest private oil and natural gas company. It’s also a growing international energy enterprise with over 10,000 employees worldwide, building pipelines to gather and ship energy from fields across the United States and Canada.
With more than 30 years of experience investing in global energy delivery infrastructure through his companies, Kelcy Warren is known for his business success in America’s oil and gas industry today. Under Warren’s leadership, Energy Transfer Partners L.P. has helped create significant value for the company and its shareholders while delivering billions of dollars in oil and natural gas to market.
Kelcy Warren is also a prolific philanthropist, sharing his success with causes that improve lives worldwide. He founded the Warren Buffett Foundation in 2011 to support several nonprofits focused on advancing human potential and helping people achieve excellent financial stability.
Warren graduated from Texas Tech University in 1976 with a B.S. Biology degree and actively supported Texas Tech’s education programs and its research into finding new cures for disease and financial security for exceptional young minds through the University of Texas Investment Management Company (UTIMCO).
Kelcy Warren also participates with several other nonprofit organizations, including the Dallas Museum of Art, the Dallas Opera, and the Boys & Girls Clubs of America. He is a member of the boards of directors for the American Petroleum Institute and American Gas Association, where he chairs their regulatory committee.
Kelcy Warren has been listed on Forbes magazine’s annual list of billionaires since 2011. He was named America’s Best CEO by Chief Executive Magazine in 2013 and one of Forbes’ top 10 most influential people in energy in 2011. According to the Dallas Business Journal, his companies have also been included on several best company lists and in the top 200 most-admired companies (both locally and internationally) for the last five years. See related link for additional information.
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