GERALD W. HADDOCK, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Executive Chairman of the Board. He was elected Executive Chairman of the Board on August 11, 2023, and subsequently appointed CEO by the Executive Committee on December 8, 2023. Haddock has served as a Director since mid-2020, during which time he chaired the Nominating and Governance Committee and served as a member of the Audit Committee. In late 2022, the Silver Star Board established an Executive Committee of the Board; later in 2023, Haddock was appointed as its Executive Chairman. According to the Committee’s charter, the Executive Committee holds the full authority of the Board.
Haddock has served as a Director of ProFrac Holding Corp. since mid-2022. He was also a Founder and Director of Union Acquisition Corp. I, which successfully merged with Bioceres Crop Solutions Corp. He was also aFounder and Director of Union Acquisition Corp. II, which merged with Procaps Group, S.A.
At the end of 2023, Haddock retired from the Board of Directors at Meritage Homes Corporation (MHC), where he served nearly 20 years. MHC, publicly traded on NASDAQ, builds single-family detached homes throughout the U.S., as well as active adult communities and luxury real estate primarily in Arizona. As a Director for MHC, Haddock chaired the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee and served on the Audit Committee.
Haddock co-founded Crescent Real Estate Equities, a diversified real estate investment trust, serving as its President, CEO, and COO, growing the company to over $8 billion in market capitalization. Additionally, Haddock was a Founder and Director at Valaris Plc. (formerly ENSCO International Plc.), a global leader in offshore oil and gas drilling services, for over three decades. At Valaris, he served as Co-Lead Director, Chairperson of the Audit Committee, and a member of the Nominating and Governance Committee. During his tenure, he was instrumental in leading mergers, acquisitions, strategic development, governance, and succession planning.
Haddock also served on various boards and committees, including Cano Petroleum, the CEELI Institute, Baylor College of Medicine Board of Trustees, and the Executive Investment Committees at Baylor University and Baylor College of Medicine. He was also on the Board of the M.D. Anderson Proton Therapy Foundation. Furthermore, he led the acquisition team purchasing the Texas Rangers, serving as minority owner and General Counsel alongside George W. Bush. He currently serves on the Board of the Johnny Unitas Foundation.
Haddock holds a Bachelor of Business Administration and Juris Doctor degrees from Baylor University, a Master of Laws in Taxation from New York University, and an MBA from Dallas Baptist University.
JACK TOMPKINS has served since 1998 as Chairman and CEO of ARTA Equity Advisors, L.L.C., engaging in various entrepreneurial opportunities. Mr. Tompkins began his career with Arthur Young & Co., working as a certified public accountant for three years before joining Arthur Andersen, L.L.P., where he was elected to the partnership in 1981 and served until 1988.
From 1988 until October 1996, Mr. Tompkins served as Chief Financial Officer, Senior Vice President and Chief Information, Administrative & Accounting Officer of a large publicly traded energy company. Mr. Tompkins served as a Chairman and CEO of Automotive Realty Trust Company of America from its inception in 1997 until its sale to a publicly traded REIT in January 1999. From March to September of 1999, Mr. Tompkins served as interim Executive Vice President and CFO of Crescent Real Estate Equities.
JIM STILL is a middle market Chief Executive Officer and Board of Directors member. During his career, Jim has been the CEO of five privately held companies and a member of the Board of Directors of over a dozen privately held companies. In addition, he has been a member of the Board of Directors of several not-for-profit institutions.
After spending the early years of his career in the mergers and acquisitions at Bell Atlantic Corporation, Jim became President and privately held real estate companies in the mid-Atlantic region. Jim engineered a management buyout of the company in transitioning to a privately held real estate investment trust, renamed Atlantic American Properties Trust. The MBO was described by the Wall Street Journal as the largest management buyout of a commercial real estate company in the United States in the 1990s.
After integrating another private company, Commonwealth Atlantic Properties, Atlantic American Properties Trust was ultimately sold to a public entity in the late 1990s. Jim has spent his career post-Atlantic American Properties Trust as both an advisor to business enterprises as well as serving as Chief Executive Officer of three companies.
He was interim CEO of GovXcel, a leading provider of software to government agencies, and then CEO of Thompson Media Group in Washington, DC. Thompson Media Group was a leading business-to-business content provider. Jim’s most recent CEO assignment was at Surgent, a leading national provider of continuing education to the CPA sector.
Jim is a graduate of Amherst College and received his MBA at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Board Member
MICHAEL RACUSIN previously served the Company as Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary from May 2021 to January 2024. Mr. Racusin managed legal matters affecting our company and its affiliates. Mr. Racusin currently serves as Chief Legal Officer of Disrupt Equity, a vertically integrated commercial private equity and real estate investment firm specializing in multifamily acquisitions.
Prior to joining the Company in May 2021, Mr. Racusin served as General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of Luby’s Inc., a publicly traded restaurant and food service company, where he also held positions as Associate General Counsel and Asst. Secretary since 2006. Mr. Racusin also co-founded and served as Chief Information Officer and General Counsel of EnergyFunders.com, the world’s first crowdfunding platform for energy projects.
Mr. Racusin is a licensed member of the State Bar of Texas. Mr. Racusin earned a Bachelor of Arts from University of Texas at Austin and his Doctor of Jurisprudence from University of Houston Law Center.
