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Robert Rowling
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Robert Rowling of Irving is the owner and chairman of TRT Holdings, Inc., a privately owned, diversified holding company that owns the Omni Hotels chain and Tana Exploration Co. Rowling serves as chairman of Omni Hotels. He is a member of the board of trustees of The University of Texas System, the board of directors of the Investment Management Company (UTIMCO) and chairs the Task Force on U.T. Dallas Lands. Rowling is ... the past chairman of the Corpus Christi Area Economic Development Corp. He currently chairs SMU's Willis M. Tate Distinguished Lecture Series and serves on the national board of trustees for Young Life. In October 2003, Rowling was inducted into the Texas Business Hall of Fame, and he received the 2003 Distinguished Alumni Award from SMU's Dedman School of Law. A graduate of The University of Texas at Austin, Rowling received his law degree from SMU's Dedman School of Law.
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Today, Robert Rowling is owner and chairman of TRT Holdings Inc., and chairman of TRT’s luxury hotel division, Omni Hotels. He ... serves on the UT System Board of Regents. David Rowling worked as an independent landman in the energy industry and now is involved in ranching.
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One night after buying the Omni Hotel chain in 1996, Robert Rowling sat in a plush room at one of his hotels flipping through the channels. He was dismayed at the pornograhic films available on pay-for-view channels.
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Reese and Robert Rowling were inducted into the Texas Business Hall of Fame in 2003. Reese Rowling established the Reese M. Rowling Endowed Fund in Geology and was honored as the Gold Nugget Award recipient for the College of Science in 1993.
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Robert B. Rowling ist Gründer der TRT Holdings Inc. Unter dieser Holding ist unter anderem die Hotelkette Omni Hotels und Gold's Gym organisiert. Das Forbes Magazine hat Rowling im Jahr 2006, als den 42. reichsten Mann Amerikas ausgewiesen.
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To hold onto their Forbes 400 spots for the long run, some of these Power Players would be smart to take a cue from George Kaiser (US$11 billion) and Robert Rowling (US$6.4 billion) and diversify. Though their fortunes started with oil, today Kaiser has US$2.3 billion in BOK Financial, while more than half of Rowling’s total comes from his Omni Hotels chain.
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