Meet Hillwood Urban Expert Leadership Team

Ross Perot, Jr.

Chairman, The Perot Companies

Chairman, Hillwood

Ross Perot, Jr.

Ross Perot Jr. serves as Chairman of The Perot Companies, which manages the various Perot family interests that include real estate, oil and gas, and financial investments. Additionally, Mr. Perot is Chairman of Hillwood, a Texas-based, leading global real estate development company he founded in 1988.

That same year, Mr. Perot developed Fort Worth Alliance Airport, the country’s first industrial airport, through a unique public-private partnership. The airport now anchors AllianceTexas, a 27,000-acre master-planned, mixed-use community in North Texas. The area is home to the AllianceTexas Mobility Innovation Zone, an integrated testbed for both surface and air mobility technology to test, scale, and commercialize. Since its inception, AllianceTexas has become home to 590 companies, generating nearly $130 billion in regional economic impact and creating more than 66,000 direct jobs.

As an aviation enthusiast, Perot completed the first helicopter flight around the world in less than 30 days in 1982 and served as a pilot in the United States Air Force. Mr. Perot then became chairman of the Air Force Memorial Foundation, leading the 14-year effort to build the United States Air Force Memorial in Washington, D.C.

Mr. Perot is co-founder of Perot Systems Corporation and served in various roles within the company including CEO, Chairman of the Board, and member of its Board of Directors. Perot Systems was acquired by Dell Inc. in 2009 at which time Mr. Perot joined their Board of Directors where he served until 2013.

Mr. Perot currently serves as Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and on the boards of the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and the Hoover Institution. He is also a Board Member Emeritus for both Vanderbilt University and the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum.

Ross Perot, Jr.