Founder of Petro Capital Group, a Dallas investment firm providing growth capital to companies in the oil, gas, and oilfield services industries since 2002. Author of Richard Coke: Texan, a biography of the fifteenth governor of Texas, honored by the Texas Senate through Resolution 520. Trustee of the Dallas Historical Society, co-chair and founding member of the Alamo Letter Society, and Director Emeritus of the Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden.