Janice McNair
- Janice McNair, widow of Robert (Bob) McNair, inherited her late husband’s 80% stake in the NFL‘s Houston Texans; he died in 2018.
- The couple met at Columbia College in South Carolina in the late 1950s and moved to Houston. Together they had four children and 15 grandchildren.
- Bob made his first fortune selling his power generator company Cogen Technologies to Enron for $1.5 billion in 1999.
- With the proceeds of Cogen’s sale, he paid $600 million that year for the 32nd NFL franchise for Houston.
- He retained ownership in Cogen’s power plants in New York and West Virginia and started Palmetto Partners, a private investment company.
