
He started Quantum at 28 to back energy entrepreneurs. Nearly three decades later, Wil VanLoh’s approach still leaves room for an unfashionable decision: keeping the money in his pocket.
Losing a starting spot at Texas A&M gave Claire Harvey a lesson she carried into energy investing: a team still needs you when the game changes. At EIV Resources, that lesson has become a way of building a business.

He built Silver Hill Energy Partners around oil, gas and the infrastructure between them. Back at SMU, Kyle Miller has put money into another kind of infrastructure: a place for people to meet.
A high school baseball reunion, a career in private capital, and the energy firm he co-founded in 2000. Michael Greer’s story turns on the work of keeping people and projects together over time.
Silver Hill combines institutional underwriting with the messy, physical work of drilling wells and building pipelines. Fifteen years after a defining $2.4 billion exit, the Dallas firm is operating across three shale basins with a fresh $1.277 billion fund.