Rank #327
Jeffery Hildebrand
Net worth $10.3B
Oil & gas · United States
- Born
- Mar 05, 1959
- Age
- 67
- Source
- Oil & gas
- Residence
- Houston, Texas
- Citizenship
- United States
- Marital status
- Married
- Children
- 3
- Education
- Bachelor of Arts/Science, The University of Texas at Austin; Master of Science, The University of Texas at Austin
Net worth over time
Biography
- Jeffrey Hildebrand cofounded Hilcorp in 1990; he later bought out his partner for $500 million.
- In 2020 Hilcorp finalized the $5.6 billion acquisition of BP's assets in Alaska.
- He has built Hilcorp into America's biggest privately owned oil company (by production volumes).
- In 2015, Hildebrand gave each of his 1,400 employees a $100,000 bonus after they doubled the size of his company in five years.
- In Aspen, Colo. Hildebrand owns a 1,000-acre ranch that used to belong to singer John Denver.
- Hildebrand funded a $32 million equestrian center at Texas A&M.