Hunter L. Hunt

Hunter L. Hunt is an American heir and businessman. He serves as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Hunt Consolidated Energy.

Biography

Early life

Hunt's late paternal grandfather, H. L. Hunt, was the founder of Hunt Oil Company, and his father, Ray Lee Hunt, is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Hunt Consolidated. He graduated from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas summa cum laude with a BA in Economics and Political Science with minors in Mathematics and Business.

Career

Hunt served as President of MeterSmart. In 1990, he joined the Natural Resources Group and moved to their London office in 1991. In 1993, he joined Morgan Stanley's Commodities Group in London. He sat on the Board of Directors of T Bank and US Power Generating Company. In 1998, he started two electricity companies, Hunt Power and Sharyland Utilities. He currently sits on the Board of Directors of North Texas Public Broadcasting and Principal Solar. He serves as the Chairman and CEO of Hunt Consolidated Energy, a holding company for the Hunt Oil Company. He is also a member of the advisory board for the Mexico Institute.

Philanthropy

Hunt sits on the Board of Trustees of the Lyle School of Engineering at SMU, the Dallas County Community College District Foundation (where he is also Vice-Chair of the Steering Committee of the Bill J. Priest Institute for Economic Development), the Circle Ten Council of the Boy Scouts of America, the Bullock Texas State History Museum and the All Stars Project. He chairs the 21st Century Council and sits on the Board of Directors of the John Goodwin Tower Center for Political Studies at SMU.

From September 1999 to January 2001, he worked on George W. Bush's presidential campaign, focusing on energy, taxes, and the budget.

Hunter and his wife, Stephanie, were reported, in January, 2014, to have purchased the 73-year-old, 43,000-square-foot Masonic Lodge in downtown Dallas to use as a hub for collaborative ventures for the city, including housing the "Urban Innovation Lab for Youth", which would serve as “an open-access space where kids can collaborate or experiment together in solving problems — a place where they can feel safe to fail, iterate and evolve their thinking.”

Personal life

He is married to Stephanie Erwin Hunt.