Notable KU IFC Alumni

- Current KU Athletics Director

- Responsible for transforming the football program, hiring Lance Leipold and launching a $335 million campaign to build a new stadium

- Delta Chi man of the year 2024

- Named in Sports Business Journal's "Power Players in College Sports" list and as a College AD "Next Up" honoree

- Graduated in 2002 with a degree in journalism and sociology

- 1982 Graduate in Petroleum Engineering

- Founded 5 separate oil and gas companies

- Served as President/CEO of 5 additional oil and gas companies

- Board Chair of Yellowstone academy, supporting education for students in poverty

- Vice Chairman of Star of Hope Mission, which has aiding Houston’s homeless population since 1907

- Spent six summers with his family in Lusaka, Zambia, serving AIDS orphans through family legacy missions international

- University of Kansas Chemical & Petroleum Engineering department Hall of Fame member

- President of the National Eagle Scout association

- KU Endowment Trustee

Co-founder and Chairman of Dimensional Fund Advisors
The Family Hall of Athletics in Allen Field House is named after him.
The David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium is named after him
The University of Chicago Booth Business School is named after him.
Trustee and member of the executive committee of New York's Museum of Modern Art
Acquired Dr. Naismith’s original 13 basic rules of basketball which now preside in Allen Field House
Signed the Giving Pledge, promising to dedicate half of his wealth to philanthropy.
2016 Forbes “The 40 Most Powerful People in the Financial World”
2022 Museum of Modern Art’s David Rockefeller Award
2018 University of Chicago Medal
KU Endowment Life Trustee
KU School of Business Distinguished Alumni Inductee in 2012
1968 Economics graduate