Founder and chairman Chief Oil and Gas
Trevor D. Rees-Jones was born in 1951. He grew up in University Park, Texas, Dallas, the eldest of three children of Trevor William Rees-Jones (1923-2009) and Billye June Kay of Dallas (1924-2008). His father was a lawyer with Locke Liddell & Sapp in Dallas.
Rees-Jones was educated at Highland Park High School, University Park, Dallas. Rees-Jones graduated from Dartmouth College and studied law at Southern Methodist University"s Dedman School of Law, where he received his Juris Doctor
He has a Netto worth of approximately $5.3 billion. He started his career as a bankruptcy attorney in Dallas. Later, he practised oil and gas reorganization law with Thompson & Knight.
In 1984, he began pursuing oil and gas investments.
He founded Chief Oil & Gas a decade later, in 1994. The company has been active in the Barnett Shale, a geological formation located in the Bend Architecture–Fort Worth Basin.
He has served as President of the Dallas Petroleum Club and the Dallas Hardhatters Committee (now known as the Dallas Wildcatters Committee). Rees-Jones has emerged as a large donor to the Republican Party and gave $1 million to American Crossroads in 2010.
Rees-Jones also made a large donation to Parkland Memorial Hospital"s campaign for its new facility.
Major recipients of grants from the foundation include the Boy Scouts of America"s Circle Ten Council, the Dallas Arboretum, the Dallas Museum of Nature and Science and the Dallas Children"s Advocacy Center. The foundation gave grants of over $40 million in both 2008 and 2010. He has served on the Board of Trustees of his alma mater, Dartmouth College, since 2010.
He also serves on the Board of Trustees of Texas Christian University and on the Board of Advisors of its Energy Institute.
