Bill Perkins
Mr. Perkins is Founder, Managing Partner and Head Trader for Skylar Capital. He has more than two decades of experience in the energy trading industry. Bill specializes in capitalizing on mispricing in the natural gas markets through option structures based on his fundamental analysis. While natural gas has been Bill's primary focus, he has employed fundamental strategies in crude oil, power and other energy-related trades. Prior to starting Skylar Capital, Bill was a trading principal for Centaurus Energy from its inception until 2012 when Centaurus was closed. Prior to Centaurus, Bill was employed as a trader and risk manager for various firms including El Paso Energy, Statoil, AIG Energy Trading, and Zahr Securities. Bill began his career on the floor of the New York Mercantile Exchange in 1991. Bill is also the founder and president of Small Ventures USA, LP, a private equity and venture capital firm based in Houston, Texas, and founded in 1997.
Additionally, Mr. Perkins has been involved in diverse assortment of ventures in energy, media, information technology and other fields. He is the President and Founder of SkyFi, a leading provider of Earth observation data that is removing barriers to capturing satellite images, and of SynMax, a satellite data analytics company which specializes in the use of commercial satellite images to find and monitor oil and gas assets and provide maritime intelligence data. He has been producing movies since 2009. He released his first book in 2020 titled “Die with Zero” which gives strategic advice on how to live your best life no matter your income.
Mr. Perkins is also involved in a many philanthropic efforts. Following the back-to-back Category 5 hurricanes of September of 2017 in the Virgin Islands, Mr. Perkins donated his time, logistics support and money to provide critical supplies and airlift people off of the islands. He also supports the International Rescue Committee, Race to Erase MS, the Dave Thomas Foundation and various other charities.
Mr. Perkins was born in Jersey City, New Jersey. He received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Iowa where he also played for the Hawkeye’s football team. He is the proud father of two daughters, Skye and Brisa. He and his wife, Lara, live in Texas.
Angelbert Metoyer
Angelbert Metoyer (b. 1977, Houston, TX) is a multi-disciplinary American artist working in the realm of figurative abstraction whose output over the last 30 years has been at the forefront of the afrofuturist movement. Metoyer studied at the Atlanta College of Art, the Savannah College of Art and Design, and Texas Southern University and embarked on a nomadic lifestyle, traveling the globe while creating a vast archive of work that explores archetype, memory, identity and social history through the lenses of science, philosophy, and religion. His practice spans manifold forms of media, including drawing, painting, installation and sound, and he often includes non-traditional materials such as coal, glass, debris, oil, tar, mirrors, and gold dust in his work.
Metoyer's work is in the permanent collections of the U.S. Department of State, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, The Charles H. Wright Museum, the Mott-Warsh Collection, the African American Museum of Dallas, the ACE Collection, and The University of Texas at Austin. He has shown at the Venice Biennale, Art Basel Miami, and The Contemporary Austin, with residencies at The University of Texas at Austin and The University of Kansas. He is the subject of various academic essays and published in books accompanying exhibitions including Strange Pilgrims. Metoyer is also featured as one of five Black artists of particular significance in Collecting Black Studies: The Art of Material Culture at The University of Texas at Austin. In addition, his artwork has been used in many album and book covers, including Comeback Evolution: Selected Works of Walter K. Delbridge, Myronn Harding’s Radioactive Starlings: Poems, Mike Ladd's Negrophilia, Saul Williams's US (a.) and Niggy Tardust, Bilal's In Another Life and VOYAGE‐19. Metoyer currently lives between Houston and Rotterdam.
You can view more of his works at his website.
Jabari Anderson
Jabari Anderson (born 1973, Houston, TX) is a visual artist who lives and works in Galveston, TX. He participated in the 2020-2021 Galveston Artist Residency program and the 2006 Skowhegan School of Paint and Sculpture. His work has been featured in Art Papers, New York Times, Art Forum Magazine and was a recipient of the 2009 Louis Comfort Tiffany Grant.
Jabari is a member of the artist collective Otabenga Jones and Associates exhibiting at the High Museum of Art, Atlanta (2008); the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington, DC (2008); the Menil Collection, Houston (2007); and the 2006 Whitney Biennial: Day for Night. His work is in the Museum of Fine Arts Houston collections.