Kelcy Warren is an American businessman. He was born on the 26th of November in 1955 and is the Chairman and CEO of Energy Transfer Partners, which is a natural gas company.

This biography show how Warren began his career at the age of 18 at an oil rig company that drilled for oil off the coast as well as sites all over Texas. He moved from Texas to Arkansas to work with a law firm, where he learned the ins and outs of energy legislation.

From there, Warren started working on his first company, Arkla Gas, which was a natural gas pipeline company based in Arkansas. After that, he moved to Oklahoma City and bought a small pipeline called Gathering. He raised $200 million to expand that business and renamed it Columbia Pipeline Group. The company was an attractive buy-out for the Williams Companies, after which he became CEO of Williams. Williams grew to over $15 billion in revenue within Warren’s tenure.

In 2012, he started his own company, Energy Transfer Partners. Energy Transfer raised $8 billion and bought Williams’ unregulated businesses, including the company that Kelcy Warren used to work for – Gathering. The huge success of the company is what led him to be ranked the 592nd wealthiest man on the Forbes list in 2014.

Kelcy Warren is also involved with some charities. He has led raising over $250 million to help victims of the 9/11 attacks and Hurricane Katrina. Warren donated $5.3 million last year alone to help preserve land in Texas for a wildlife management area. He started the Kelcy L. Warren Foundation in 2008 to give money to a forestry school in his hometown, as well as provide more support for his high school alma mater, Little Cypress-Mauriceville High School.

Warren has also made large donations to the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, the University of Texas as well as several other institutions. The estate of Kelcy L. Warren donated $20 million to the state of Texas in 2017, which will go towards a wildlife habitat preservation project in a part of the Great Plains it owns. The donation allowed for the creation of two new wildlife management areas that will add over 13,000 acres of land to the state’s official wildlife heritage sites. See this article to learn more.

More about Kelcy Warren on https://www.bloomberg.com/billionaires/profiles/kelcy-l-warren/