ACG Houston: November Monthly Luncheon 2025

Mr. Donald Young is the Founder and Managing Member of Race Rock Group and all its affiliates, a private holding company focused on control and non-control investments in private operating companies, industrial and commercial real estate and other alternative investments.  Mr. Young is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Race Rock Infrastructure (RRI), a nationwide manufacturer and supplier of critical infrastructure products and solutions for highway/transportation, transmission/distribution, solar, telecommunications and other end markets with seven locations in Texas, Ohio and Connecticut.  (www.racerock.com)
 
Since 2021, Mr. Young has served on the board of Newpark Resources (NR:NYSE) where he is Chair of the Compensation Committee and a member of the Environmental, Social and Governance and Audit Committees. Since, December 2023, Mr. Young has served on the board of directors of John I. Haas, Inc. the largest supplier of hop products to the North American market.  From December 2019 to March 2024, Mr. Young served on the board of Gulf Capital Bank where he was a member of the Nominating and Governance, Audit and Loan Committees.   From November 2019 to March 2021, Mr. Young served as Executive-in-Residence with Warburg Pincus LLC in their Industrial and Business Services Group.

Prior to RRI, Mr. Young was Chairman and CEO of Hoover Ferguson Ltd. from 2008 to 2019 and a board director until 2021. Hoover Ferguson, now Hoover CS, was a fully integrated provider of chemical tanks, cargo carrying units, catalyst bins, modular containers and other related rental products and services to the global energy, petrochemical and general industrial end markets with 42 locations in 26 countries. Mr. Young led a management buyout of Hoover Group in 2009 and eventually sold the company to First Reserve in 2015 before merging Hoover with the Ferguson Group to create the Hoover Ferguson Group in 2016. During his tenure, Hoover Ferguson won multiple awards including being listed five years in a row as one of Houston’s Best Places to Work and Houston’s Fastest Growing Companies by the Houston Business Journal. In 2015, Mr. Young was selected as the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year for the five state Gulf Coast region and was a finalist for the national award.

Prior to joining Hoover in 2008, Mr. Young worked in New York City in private equity at Citigroup Venture Capital and Sciens Capital and investment banking at Bank of America and Prudential Securities. Mr. Young is the former Chairman of the Houston Chapter of the Young Presidents’ Organization (YPO) and has served on the board of directors of KIPP Houston, the Energy Workforce Council, Walsh Park Benevolent Corporation and The Doe Fund as well as numerous industry and philanthropic organizations. Mr. Young graduated from Harvard University with a B.A. in Government and was born and raised in Corpus Christi, TX. Mr. Young lives in Houston, Texas and is married to Kelley Chapoton Young and they have two sons, Chap and Chase.