Gary Bassett
Founder, Chairman and Managing Partner
Highland Park, Texas, U.S.
Financial pioneer, technology founder, and philanthropist with a 45-year career spanning investment banking, enterprise software entrepreneurship, institutional asset management, and international philanthropy.
Background
Gary Bassett built his foundation in investment banking at J.P. Morgan before co-founding Lamar National Bank as a founding shareholder and serving as President of the Lamar Bank Center. In 1985, he founded Microbank Software Inc., developing enterprise software for banking and construction sectors, which was later acquired by Citicorp. He served as Managing Director at Bank of America's investment banking division before dedicating seven years to global philanthropy and exploration across 60+ countries. Since 2012, he has served as Founder, Chairman, and Managing Partner of HP Capital Partners, an institutional hedge fund.
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All coverage“When you are analyzing a company, you can spend a lot of time thinking about what management should do. When it is your company, there is nowhere to send the recommendation. You have to make the decision and deal with what happens next.”