Bill Perkins

Bill Perkins is an American hedge fund manager, energy trader, film producer, poker player, and author, best known as the 'Natural Gas King' and 'Last Cowboy of Wall Street.' After earning a B.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Iowa and playing football there, he began his career on the New York Mercantile Exchange floor in 1991, later moving to Houston where he generated over $1 billion trading natural gas and founded Skylar Capital.[2][3][5][6]