D CEO November 2018
Cover Story
Meet the Winners of D CEO’s 2018 Oil & Gas Dealmakers Awards
Meet the CEOs, CFOs, and innovators who have made Texas a national and international center for energy activity.
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Features
Business
Eureka! How the Permian Basin Has Energized Dallas-Fort Worth’s Energy Industry
A new energy boom is taking hold in Texas, from the Permian Basin to Dallas’ Crescent Court.
Awards
The Winners of D CEO’s 2018 Residential Real Estate Awards
In one of the hottest residential markets in the country, these North Texas communities and developers rise above their peers.
Business
Meet the Guy Making T. Boone Pickens Richer
Toby Loftin, of BP Capital Fund Advisors, started managing the oil icon’s wealth in 2010.
By Jennifer Warren
Business
Order My Gear Is Changing How Parents Order Their Kids’ Uniforms
Co-founders James Skidmore and Kent McKeaigg are transforming an archaic system.
By Caitlin Clark
Business
Lunch With: Ricochet Fuel Distributors Inc. Founder Kelly Brett Roberts
Roberts started her own fuel transportation company 30 years ago, because she knew she could do it better than her boss.
Business
Calling All Hydrocarbons
Producers spend millions digging oil and gas wells that turn up empty. Hunt Consolidated spinout ES Xplore may have the answer.
By Jeff Bounds
Business
Wan Kim Is a Smooth(ie) Operator
The Smoothie King CEO sold smoothies to a country that had never heard of them. His next vision: more locations than McDonald’s.
By Tara Nieuwesteeg
Business
My Toughest Challenge: Joseph Wm. Foran
After losing key advisors, Matador Resources’ CEO puts his eyes on the road ahead.
Business
In the Age of Social Media, CEOs Are Under Intense Scrutiny
With the process of justice beginning so often on social media, chief executives are under more scrutiny than ever from their boards of directors.
By Steve Thomas
Personalities
The Beck Group’s Rick del Monte Has a Thing for Racing
The chief design officer takes his mind off his 9-to-5 by speeding around the track.
By Shawn Shinneman
Personalities
Step Inside the Arlington Office of Adobe Oil & Gas’ Bobby Adkins
The company’s president shows us around his office overlooking center field at Globe Life Park in Arlington.
Personalities
My Style: Roland Parrish
The owner and CEO of Parrish Restaurants Ltd. lets us in on his “crips, color-coordinated, neat, and contemporary” look.
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My Roots
My Roots: Katya Evseev
The director of energy finance at CIT Bank on growing up a gymnast in Crimea.
Business
How the George W. Bush Presidential Center’s Ken Hersh Spends His Day
Hersh hits the treadmill, flies through meetings, and is briefed on a podcast called “The Strategerist.”
By Alice Zhang
Business
Meet the Dallas 500: Timothy Dove
The Pioneer Natural Resources CEO has come a long way since throwing papers on doorsteps as a 10 year old.
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Energy Industry
ExxonMobil’s Climate Change Related Legal Battles Continue
Climate-change lawsuits continue to cause headaches for global energy giant ExxonMobil.
By Thomas Korosec