Our monthly gatherings aim to offer an informational and positional advantage for attendees, whether de-risking investments or servicing deals. Our events are free, thanks to our strategic partners.
Monthly topical gatherings were prompted by a joint family office relationship to meet regional lenders, which has since extended to professionals in service of capital. We invite you to the next topical session.
July 24th, 2025 | 2 PM - 3:30 PM CST
The Fort Worth Club, 12th Floor Trinity Room, 306 W 7th St, Fort Worth, TX 76102
Comped parking in the building.
Energy Monetization & Bitcoin Mining:
Digital Yield from Fossil Fuels
A professional gathering and panel offering insights on syndicated strategy for high-yield digital returns on energy sites.
Registrants represent the following firms
Citibank
Frost Bank
Truist Bank
Encore Bank
Trinity Bank
Ciera Bank
First Bank Texas
Simmons Bank
CrossFirst Bank
Third Coast Bank
Texas Regional Bank
Busey Bank
Great Plains National Bank
PlainsCapital Bank
J.P. Morgan Private Bank
First Financial Bank Texas
Pinnacle Bank
Kimbell Oil Company of Texas
Goldman Sachs
Deloitte Consulting
Ernst & Young
PwC
Morgan Stanley
Fidelity Investments
PNC Capital
Alliant
Ansid Capital
Tailwater Capital
Clotine Capital
Flatbay Capital
Green Root Capital
BMB Capital
DL Capital Group
Kings Branch Data
Calvetti Ferguson
Prime Capital Financial
American Airlines Federal Credit Union
Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance
Texas Capital
Baruk Capital Group
Eden Advisory
Trilogy NextGen
Ravenwood Energy Partners
High Ground Ventures
Texas Blockchain Council
Whitney Smith Company - Higginbotham
Prudential Financial
Clairemont Development Group
Texas Instruments
Eagle Venture Lab
Federal Union
Lockton
Astra Wealth Management
TCU Neeley School of Business
University of North Texas
Marcus & Millichap
Keller Williams Realty
ZT Corporate
Health Wildcatters
TransWestern Real Estate
New York Life Insurance Company
The Business Press
Champion Commercial Insurance Agency
World Insurance Associates
Basey Insurance
Higginbotham
StoneCastle
Bigeye Advisors
Channel Advisors
Duane Morris LLP
Delta Oil & Gas
Raymond James
AT&T
Edward Jones
Albertsons
YMCA of Fort Worth
Qualtrics
Pro-Forma
Simpli.fi
Adeptus Partners
Ebby Halliday
AFS Logistics
Capital Title of Texas
Crux Technology & Security Solutions
Sotheby's International Realty
Downtown Fort Worth, Inc.
Sum Theory
Howden Re
Solomon Bruce Consulting
K5 Consulting
Texas Integrative Healthcare
Fort Worth Gasket & Supply
Ayass BioScience
RST Bioscience
Tailscale
FBFK Law
Trinh Consulting
Military Brand Advisor
BookSource
Cuidado Casero
SES ESOP Strategies
ITAD USA
Strittmatter Wealth Management Group
Moffatt Financial Strategies
Black Raven Advisors
Live Energy Inc.
PMG
Adobe
BitPetro
Embark
Capital Title NCO
Conduent
Schulz Wealth
d2 Digital Designs
Kingdom Downhole Tools
Scale Up Digital Advisors
Lampados Financial
Superior Data Science
Brooksource
Trilogy NextGen
Gameday Men’s Health
Dawson Parrish, PC
Coactify
Tuttle Equity
1Traq
slwm
CRC Sales Accelerators
ExecHQ
Dustups Ranch
Brio Tiny Homes
12 Media Group
Hajjar Peters LLP
True North Home Loans
Texas Secured Notes
Westmoreland Builders
Yeetum
DL Capital Group
InterLink Strategies
Harris Cook Law
Adonis Partners
Veale Real Estate
Linear Roofing
Dawson Springman
Commerce Street Holdings
AgTrust Farm Credit
Clear Sky Partners
Harvest Returns
Capitalize Consulting
PM Squared Financial
Checki Financial
Vibe Energy Group
SVN International
Marsh McLennan Agency
Palogic Value Management
Shipp Needham Economic Analysis
Summit Asset Acquisitions
Argent Trust
Tatum
Featured Panelists
Phil Stanley
President, CEO
PM Squared Financial
Phil Stanley is the Principal of PM Squared Financial. He has developed 11 megawatts of off-grid natural gas-powered high-performance computing hosting and bitcoin mining infrastructure across multiple locations. Phil is developing another 30 megawatts of on-grid data hosting facility infrastructure.
Previous successes included facilitating hosting agreements for data centers in numerous locations across Texas and Oklahoma. Phil has built and sold a successful traditional asset management firm and exited $15,000,000 in self-storage development and turnaround real estate projects. He has also managed the alternative assets sleeve of over $500,000,000 in assets for a family office.
Lee Bratcher
Founder & President
Texas Blockchain Council
Lee Bratcher is the President and Founder of the Texas Blockchain Council.
The Texas Blockchain Council is an industry association with more than 100 member companies and hundreds of individuals that seek to make Texas the jurisdiction of choice for Bitcoin and blockchain innovation.
The TBC helped to research two pieces of blockchain legislation that were passed in the 87th Legislative session and an additional two bills in the 88th Session that were signed into effect by Governor Abbott. Lee and the TBC team have a specific focus on the regulatory environment around Bitcoin mining in Texas.
The TBC hosts the North American Blockchain Summit at which speakers like Vivek Ramaswamy, RFK Jr., Senator Ted Cruz, Senator Cynthia Lummis and SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce address sold-out audiences.
Formerly, Lee was a political science professor at Dallas Baptist University teaching international relations with a research emphasis on property rights.
Lee was awarded a master’s in International Relations from St. Mary’s University and a Ph.D. from UT Dallas with a research emphasis on blockchain land registries. Lee lives in Richardson, TX with his wife Becca and their three daughters.
Austin Philpot
Vice President
LP Operating
Austin Philpot currently helps manage a portfolio of over 60 projects with estimated recoverable reserves valued at more than $500 million.
In addition to his work at LP Operating, Austin is launching a closed-end private equity fund focused on acquiring producing Oil and Gas assets. The fund plans to open in the 3rd quarter of 2025 and plans to raise and deploy $1 billion, and intends to scale to a $10 billion asset footprint within 24 to 36 months.
Austin is the Vice President of LP Operating, a Texas-based Oil and Gas operator focused on providing individuals, family offices, and institutional investors with direct access to upstream Oil and Gas investment opportunities. LP Operating specializes in on-the-ground and in-the-ground development across Texas’s most prolific basins.
Austin earned his BSBA in Energy Management from UT Dallas in 2019 and immediately entered the Oil and Gas sector.
Austin’s core areas of expertise include portfolio development, strategic risk mitigation, market analysis, and due diligence across both the operational and financial dimensions of the energy industry.
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