Raj B. Mistry is the son of Indian immigrants who settled in a small town in Texas, hoping their son would grow up to be a doctor. But Raj was drawn to the quintessentially Texan oil and gas industry. At 27, he is the co-founder of Lynx Resource Partners, which has spent the last two years assembling oil and gas acreage in the Anadarko basin of Oklahoma. Last year Lynx sold 10,000 acres of oilfields for about $30 million. They have since attracted $100 million in private equity capital to build up 15,000 acres. Mistry got his start working at Citi, helping to raise capital for Chesapeake Energy, which helped him get the attention of its late founder, the risk-loving “wildcatter” Aubrey McClendon, who poached Mistry to help him launch American Energy Partners, which raised and deployed more than $5 billion before McClendon’s death in 2015. Mistry worked with McClendon on deals in Texas, Ohio, Australia, Argentina and Mexico, eventually becoming director of finance for AEP. Read more here.