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3755 Richmond Ave.
Houston, TX 77046
 
Thursday September 18, 2025
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
 
 
 
This coming Thursday, Rotary Club of Houston has invited Mr. Paul Hobby, leader of the Hobby Family Offices for more than two decades, carrying on the business and philanthropic efforts of one of the most distinguished families in Texas History.
 
The Hobby family has significantly shaped Houston and Texas through media, business, education, and politics, with patriarch William P. Hobby Sr. pioneering media and serving as Governor, his wife Oveta, Culp Hobby, leading the WAC and heading a presidential cabinet, their son, former Lt. Governor, for eighteen years, Bill Hobby, contributing to politics and the media as President of the Houston Post for twenty years.
 
 

Paul W. Hobby has had a lifetime of preparation in family and business dealing with polar opposite people, ideas, and aspirations. His book Glorious Tension: Rediscovering Our Sacred Middle Ground in an Age of Extremism certainly is timely for discussion and your questions.

More than ever before in society today, the middle ground sounds amazing.

Mr. Hobby is a Founding Partner of Genesis Park, L.P. who has been an active regional debt and equity provider for over twenty five years.

In that context, Mr. Hobby has served as Chairman or CEO of numerous portfolio companies: Genesis Park Acquisition Company, Alpheus Communications, Texas Monthly, Caprock Communications, and a solar finance venture, Flic Financial.

Mr. Hobby has more than six decades of combined public company experience having served on the boards of eight public companies through complex markets and management transitions.

Mr. Hobby is a graduate of the University of Virginia, where he has been honored by the Raven Society, and the University of Texas School of Law, where he has served as an adjunct faculty member and been honored as an Outstanding Young Alumnus. In 2022, he was inducted into the Texas Business Hall of Fame. Mr. Hobby has been an invited lecturer at many colleges and universities.

Mr Hobby’s public and civic participations have been numerous, in particular he is former Chairman of the Greater Houston Partnership, the Houston Branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, the Texas Ethics Commission, the Texas General Services Commission, the Philosophical Society of Texas, and The Texas Business Hall of Fame.

He is the author of a 2023 book, Glorious Tension.

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