Tuesday 1 April 2014

Business History Of Albert Huddleston

Albert Huddleston is Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Hyperion Resources and was responsible for the founding of Legacy Investments, Inc. in 1990. Mr. Huddleston has led Hyperion in the acquisition of hundreds of millions worth of oil and gas properties. He has established a track record for generating superior rates of return for investors who have participated in his energy ventures. Mr. Albert Huddleston is currently employed at Hyperion Resources, Inc. in the position of Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer. 

His management also extends to the family's philanthropic efforts, through the Huddleston Community Service Initiative. A believer of hands-on involvement, Mr. Huddleston often works alongside the volunteers who serve these non-profit causes in an effort to get to know the people his family's donations are helping. Albert Huddleston started his career as a petroleum engineer at Houston Oil & Minerals and later worked as an independent petroleum land man for Hunt Energy Corporation.

As CEO of Hyperion Resources, Mr. Huddleston with his partner Miro Vranac has visited Iraq numerous times since February 2004, and has met with a wide cross-section of Iraqis involved in the oil sector and various levels of government and business, as well as religious and cultural leaders. Hyperion Resources was one of the first US oil and gas companies to sign a memorandum of understanding and establish a joint steering committee (JSC) with the Iraqi Ministry of Oil. Prior to the founding of Legacy Investments, Mr. Huddleston managed various family investments in real estate, as well as oil and gas.

Mr. Albert Huddleston is a 1975 graduate of Vanderbilt University, where he received a Bachelor of Science in Engineering Science. He grew up in Maryville, Tennessee in the Foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains. His exposure to Appalachia continues to inspire his desire to help others to help themselves, a goal of the Huddleston Community Service Initiative, founded by Albert and Mary Huddleston.

A wing at the Blount Memorial Hospital, in Maryville, was named for Albert Huddleston's grandfather and namesake, A.D. Huddleston, in appreciation for his perseverance in securing the land on which the hospital was founded in 1945.Albert Huddleston's hometown, Maryville, has a deep connection to Texas history.