William L. Rogers
100 Crescent Court, Suite 450
Dallas, TX 75201
(214) 270-2121
Mr. Rogers is the founder of TexWest, LLC – his principal investment vehicle.
Mr. Rogers is also a founder of The Halifax Group – a small-cap leveraged buyout group founded by himself; his partners of twenty years, David Bonderman (Chairman of the Texas Pacific Group –
www.tpg.com) and Tom Barrack (Chairman of Colony Capital-
www.colonycapital.com); and David Dupree (a former Carlyle partner). Halifax [
www.thehalifaxgroup.com] has invested in seventeen corporate transactions, estimated by Mr. Rogers to total over $3 billion in enterprise value, since its inception in 1999. Mr. Rogers served as Chairman of The Halifax Group from its inception in 1999 to December 31, 2009 when he retired from Halifax to focus on his personal investments (including his continuing investments with Halifax) and future investments in Asia, energy, and agriculture.
Mr. Rogers, together with his partners Keith Tucker and Tom Delatour, is also a founder of Century Bridge and Sweetwater Capital – private entities for real estate and other agribusiness investments in China, Pakistan, and Turkey.
Mr. Rogers is one of the founders of U.S. Farming Realty Trust, LP - a limited partnership investing initially in an unleveraged $ 300 million diversified portfolio of U.S. farmland. The general partner and its affiliates have been successfully entrenched in a number of agri-business operations since 1871.
Mr. Rogers is working with Indian principals to develop 600 mw of “run of the river” hydroelectricity at 4 sites in Nepal for transmission to the Indian market place. After this first phase, the joint venture has secured licenses for an additional 1400 mw of power to be developed.
Mr. Rogers is an avid traveler to New Mexico, has a home is Santa Fe, and is a founder of RSF Land & Cattle, based in New Mexico, which has a number of real estate holdings :
- RSF and its affiliates have developed 1,000,000 plus square feet of retail and commercial in New Mexico and have other residential and commercial holdings in North Carolina, Texas and California.
- Mr. Rogers is also currently developing in New Mexico a 6,700 acre master planned community which is zoned for 20,000 plus homes, 1,000 acres of commercial realty, and a potential “Solar City” focusing on alternative energy and “green technology”.
- RSF is also involved in farming several thousand acres of citrus crops and grapes in California [with its longtime partner, George Bravante], and has developed a state of the art packaging operation for processing harvests for itself and others. The packaging entity is a Sunkist grower/shipper with its product going to all 50 states, and 30% of its product being shipped to Asia and England.
- RSF is also an owner of Greystone Castle [www.greystonecastle.com – a sporting resort west of Fort Worth. Its 5000 acres of upland hunting, big game hunting, and fishing provide luxury resort accommodations …; are in the Barnett Shale; and are the basis for a potential second home recreational resort two hours from Dallas.
Mr. Rogers is a founder and director of Cobrek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (www.cobrek.com). Cobrek creates and executes high return, intellectual property strategies within the branded and generic small-molecule drug sectors.
Mr. Rogers joined the Board of Directors when Keith Tucker led the spin out and subsequent NYSE listing of Waddell & Reed [ www.waddell.com] , a Kansas City-based asset manager . Bill sat on the company's Executive Committee of three … and was a part of its growth in distribution channels and asset size from an initial $ 30 billion in assets under management to $ 80 billion before leaving the Board .
Mr. Rogers is also a principal of Colony Capital and is one of the founding partners of Colony. Since its inception in 1991, Colony has invested over $40 billion in real estate related assets and has 14 offices in 12 countries.
Prior to Colony, Mr. Rogers invested his personal capital in a number of successful real estate restructuring and leveraged corporate acquisitions. From 1983 to 1988 Mr. Rogers was, along with David Bonderman and Tom Barrack, the initial “investment team” for the Robert M. Bass Group. Prior to 1983, Mr. Rogers served as an owner and director of DCI, a specialty food processing company, which he recapitalized and merged with an entity controlled by Richard Rainwater and Bass Brothers Enterprises of Fort Worth, Texas.
Mr. Rogers is a former partner of KPMG Peat Marwick and served as a coordinator of the original White House Conference on Small Business while on loan in 1979 from Peat Marwick to the White House. He was invited to serve as controller for the President’s re-election campaign.
Mr. Rogers received a B.S. from the University of North Carolina in 1969, where he was a Phi Beta Kappa graduate; and he received an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business in 1972, where he was a Vehon Scholar. He is a member and former Chairman of the Kenan Flagler Business School Board of Visitors at the University of North Carolina and assisted in the oversight of its Foundation’s investments. He is a member of the Board of Advisors for the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions at Duke University, and is a former trustee of the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business.
Mr. Rogers lives in Dallas, Texas. He is a member of the University Club (New York), the Carolina Country Club (Raleigh), Shady Oaks Country Club (Fort Worth), Bent Tree Country Club (Dallas),the Coral Casino Beach Club (Santa Barbara) and the Montecito Country Club (Santa Barbara). His hobbies include time on the golf course and shooting and fishing at his ranch, Greystone Castle, which is approximately 60 miles west of Fort Worth.