Jeffery Hildebrand
Jeffery Hildebrand is an American businessman, who is the founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Hilcorp Energy Company.
- Jeffrey Hildebrand cofounded Hilcorp in 1990; he later bought out his partner for $500 million.
- The former Exxon geologist has specialized in reinvigorating old oil and gas fields like in the Gulf of Mexico and Alaska.
- He has built Hilcorp into America’s biggest privately owned oil company (by production volumes).
- In 2015, Hildebrand gave each of his 1,400 employees a $100,000 bonus after they doubled the size of his company in five years.
