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T. Boone Pickens

An American oilman and business man. He founded an oil company, Mesa Petroleum, in 1956, and built it into one of the largest independent oil companies in the world. In the 1980s, Mesa was deeply involved in mergers and acquisitions, buying and attempting to buy companies much larger than it was. Pickens developed a reputation as a greenmailer, one who buys stock in a company and forces the company to buy it back at a large premium to avoid a hostile takeover. In 1997, he established BP Capital Management, which manages hedge funds. He is also a noted patron of his alma mater, Oklahoma State University. He was born in 1928.

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BP Capital Fund Advisors offers the investing public a fund vehicle to invest alongside Boone Pickens and his team.

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Boone Pickens, who founded Mesa Power Group to develop renewable energy projects as part of his comprehensive plan to enhance national energy security (The Pickens Plan).

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Boone Pickens, founder and chairman of BP Capital Management, stated that with gas and oil prices back up, America's dependence on foreign oil needs to be eliminated for the greater good of the country.

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T. Boone Pickens chairs National Hunting and Fishing Day

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