Bob Bass is a native of Fort Worth, Texas, a 1974 alumnus of Stanford Graduate School of Business, and a 1971 graduate of Yale University. He started his business career after Yale
at Wells Fargo Bank and returned to Fort Worth to coordinate personal and family investments after graduating from Stanford.
Bob is president of Keystone Group LP, a holding company through which he coordinates his investments in securities, financial services, manufacturing, information services, real estate, oil, and gas. He is the founder of the Oak Hill family of investment funds.
Bob is a trustee and former chairman of the board of trustees of Stanford University, and director and former chairman
of Stanford Management Company. He also is a trustee of Rockefeller University, Middlesex School, and the Amon Carter Museum. He is past chairman of the National Trust for Historic Preservation and Cook Children’s Medical Center.
Bob and his wife, Anne, a Smith College graduate, have four children.