John Scully

John is a founding partner of SPO. From 1971 to 1991 Mr. Scully was a founding general partner of Texas Partners, a Bass family investment entity that took significant public and private equity positions in Taft Broadcasting, Wometco Cable, and American Savings among others. He is currently a director of Plum Creek Timber Company, and chairman of the board of Advent Software. John began his investing career after receiving his M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business in 1968 and his A.B. from Princeton University in 1966. Mr. Scully is a former trustee and vice chairman of the Board of Trustees of Stanford University and a former chair of its finance committee. He is also a former trustee of Princeton University, where he served as chair of the finance committee. John is a founder and chairman of the Making Waves Education Program and Making Waves Academy in Richmond and San Francisco, California, serving over 1,000 inner city youth.