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Kyle D. Miller and the business of beginning again
A Delaware Basin deal put Silver Hill on the map. Kyle D. Miller kept building, while making room at SMU for the people who might build something next.
Les Ware and the Fine Print Behind the Chorus
A Dallas patent lawyer brought his understanding of ownership into the music business. For Les Ware, the distance between a wireless invention and a country hit runs through the rights.
Robert Rowling and the price of keeping the keys
The Dallas investor turned an oil fortune into Omni Hotels, then helped put championship golf on a former Frisco ranch. His career is a study in what happens when the owner stays on the hook.
Kyle Miller and the value of the next conversation
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.
Jay Fields and the business of getting closer to the ground
Jay Fields expanded his father’s steel distribution business into manufacturing, real estate and a record label. A purchase from his father’s former employer offers a useful place to begin.
Jerry Braun
Jerry Braun is the Chairman and CEO of Meriton, a Dallas-based national alliance of commercial HVAC manufacturer representative firms that he has grown into a network of 19 member companies, 44 locations and more than 2,100 employees since 2019. He is also Chairman and CEO of Texas AirSystems, which he has led since 2000. Braun's model buys leading regional HVAC representative firms and keeps their local leadership in place while giving them national scale, a strategy that has multiplied Meriton's revenue and profit more than sixfold in five years.