Chet Billingsley
Chairman, CEO, & Principal Financial Officer
Chet Billingsley was appointed as a director on July 29, 1994, and was named Chairman on August 15, 2009. On May 6, 2017, Mr. Billingsley was appointed as a director of Mentor's Audit Committee. He has been the company's President & CEO since 1994 and founded the private company predecessor of the company in 1985 after leaving General Electric's California-based Nuclear Division. On August 7, 2021, he was appointed Principal Financial Officer. On behalf of the company, Mr. Billingsley had conducted dozens of acquisitions and business financings during this period. He began investing in 1979 and as CEO completed the Series 65 examination and briefly was a registered investment advisor with an affiliated portfolio entity in 2010. He received his undergraduate education at West Point, and a Master's Degree in Applied Physics from Harvard University, with concurrent study at Harvard Business School and at MIT's Nuclear Engineering Department. Mr. Billingsley spent his early career in the energy sector in a broad range of technologies including coal, LNG, nuclear, and solar, plus the administration of all technology contracts for the Department of Energy in Washington, DC. He worked at General Electric from January 1979 to June 1985. After taking the firm public in 1996, Mr. Billingsley led the Company's early public gas trading company mini-tender offers, the acquisition and later sale of a dozen oil and gas partnerships, and in 2023, the creation and funding of the Mentor Capital, Inc. Class Energy Index, a tracking investment in Oil and Gas, Uranium, Coal, and related industries. Mr. Billingsley has directed the successful acquisition or investment in over thirty-eight operating portfolio businesses or entities.
Education
- West Point Military Academy, Undergrad
- Harvard University, M.S. Applied Physics
Training & Certifications
- Former Registered Investment Advisor
Professional Organizations & Affiliations
- Mentor Capital, Inc., Chairman of the Board
Lori Stansfield
Treasurer
Lori Stansfield is the Treasurer at Mentor Capital, Inc. Prior to becoming Treasurer, Ms. Stansfield worked as the Director of Audit Services for Robert R. Redwitz & Co., in La Jolla, California. She has taught, written about, managed, audited, and prepared financial statements during the past thirty years. She graduated Magna cum Laude in accounting from the University of Colorado in Denver and where she also received a Master's Degree in marketing. She is certified as a public accountant in both Colorado and California. Ms. Stansfield has no affiliated or conflicting outside business interests.
Education
- University of Colorado at Denver, B.S. Accounting
- University of Colorado at Denver, M.S. Marketing
Training & Certifications
- California Board of Accountancy, CPA
- Colorado State Board of Accountancy, CPA
Professional Organizations & Affiliations
- American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, Member
Robert B. Meyer
Secretary
Robert B. Meyer was named Secretary of the Board of Directors on April 9, 2015. He previously held a director position between January 11, 2000 and August 27, 2003 and later returned to this role on April 29, 2012. As the largest outside shareholder, Mr. Meyer has been a senior professional voice in the company's management for over 18 years. Mr. Meyer was the founder, publisher, and editor of a business magazine, Barter News, which went into print in 1979. In 2003, he began a monthly newsletter called The Competitive Edge. Mr. Meyer served in the United States Marine Corps, and is a former professional baseball player. In his 11 years of experience as a pitcher in the major leagues, he played alongside hall of fame players like Mickey Mantle, Roger Maris, Whitey Ford and Yogi Berra. Since then he has become one of the first charter inductees of the International Reciprocal Trade Association's "Barter Hall of Fame," and he has twice addressed the American Countertrade Association, a prestigious organization of Major Fortune 500 companies who countertrades in billions of dollars annually. Mr. Meyer has no affiliated or conflicting outside business interests.
Education
- University of Toledo
Additional Associations
- Major League Baseball Players Alumni Association
- International Reciprocal Trade Association
- National Association Trade Exchanges
David G. Carlile
Director & Audit Committee Chairman
David G. Carlile was appointed as a director on April 14, 2017, and on May 6, 2017, he was appointed as a director of the company's Audit Committee and named Audit Committee Chairman. For over 34 years, Mr. Carlile has served in Senior Management positions in the coal industry; he has been the President of Carlile Enterprises, Inc. for over 17 years. He received his BSc. in Mining Geology from the Imperial College, University of London in 1977. He also received a Master's Degree in Mining Engineering from the University of Arizona in 1979. Mr. Carlile has no affiliated or conflicting outside business interests.
Education
- Imperial College, University of London, B.S. Mining Geology
- University of Arizona, M.S. Mining Engineering