Stacy Helen Schusterman | |
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Born | c. 1963 |
Residence | Tulsa, Oklahoma, U.S. |
Alma mater |
Yale University McCombs School of Business |
Occupation | Businesswoman, philanthropist |
Spouse(s) | Steven H. Dow |
Children | 3 |
Parent(s) |
Charles Schusterman Lynn Schusterman |
Stacy H. Schusterman (born c. 1963) is an American heiress, businesswoman and philanthropist.
Schusterman served as the chief executive officer of her family business, Samson Resources, a Tulsa, Oklahoma-based oil and gas company, from 2000 to its US$7.2 billion buyout by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts in 2011. She serves as the chairman and chief executive officer of Samson Energy, a deepwater drilling company in the Gulf Coast of the United States.
Schusterman is the founder of Granite Properties, a Plano, Texas-based real estate investment company, and Black Coral Capital, a Boston, Massachusetts-based clean technology investment firm.
Schusterman supports Jewish causes in the United States and Israel.
Stacy H. Schusterman was born circa 1963. Her father, Charles Schusterman, was an oilman and philanthropist. Her mother, Lynn Schusterman, is a billionaire philanthropist. She has two brothers, Jay and Hal, who lives in Israel.
Schusterman studied in Israel in 1983, when she returned to the United States and eventually graduated from Yale University in 1985. She received a master in business administration from the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin.
Schusterman started her career at her father's oil and gas company, Samson Resources. She served as its chief executive officer from 2000 to 2011, when she sold it to Kohlberg Kravis Roberts for US$7.2 billion. During her tenure as CEO, Schusterman switched the company investments from clean gas to oil, shale gas and tight gas.