Kelcy Warren, a native Texan, has been a member of the Forbes 400 list of the wealthiest people in America for two years in a row. He has served as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Energy Transfer Partners since 2007. Mr. Warren is also on the board of directors for Marathon Petroleum Corporation.
The company owns and operates TransCanada’s pipelines which transport petroleum crude oil from Canada to U.S Gulf Coast refineries or storage facilities in Cushing, Oklahoma or Memphis, Tennessee, and transport propane gas from Western Canada to customers throughout North America via pipeline infrastructure.
Kelcy Warren is involved in several other business ventures, including his investment firm, ML Energy Partners, which invests in oil and gas pipeline infrastructure in the U.S. and Canada. He also owns Western Refining Corporation and is on the board of directors for Western Farm Service Agency (WFS).
Kelcy Warren was born in 1953 in Fort Worth, Texas, to a family with roots in Scottsville, Kentucky, and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. He grew up before and after World War II working on his father’s farm outside Fort Worth, where he helped his parents raise cattle, as well as having access to the stockyard where he would work during his summers.
As a teenager, Mr. Warren played high school football and learned the value of a strong work ethic and good communication skills. After high school, he joined the United States Marine Corps. He was promoted to the rank of corporal. He served two tours in Vietnam with the First Battalion, Seventh Marines and two tours in the Republic of Korea with Marine Corps Rifle Company (MCR) 1/7 under the command of Lieutenant Colonel George Mabry and Lieutenant Colonel George Gudden. He was decorated three times during his military service, twice with a Bronze Star Medal and once with a Silver Star Medal. Refer to this article for related information.
Find more information about Warren on https://www.utsystem.edu/board-of-regents/current-regents/kelcy-l-warren