
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.