Meet the Board: Bruce Braden

BRUCE BRADEN, MBA 73
CEO, Braden Exploration, LLC

Why do you serve on GGU’s board: My post-Army professional career started out of GGU with a degree in MBA in taxation. I credit the degree as the start of my business career.

Experience: I have been an owner/operator in the oil and gas industry for over 25 years. I started Braden Exploration, LLC, a small, independent oil and gas company based in Fort Worth, Texas, after selling Stroud Energy.

Business specialty: Natural gas exploration, and in particular, unconventional plays such as coal bed methane, shale, chalk, and secondary recovery of oil.

Past employers: Touche Ross & Co; Frederiksen & Co.; Grant Thornton.

Hobbies: I golf; I’m also on the board of the Smuin Ballet, and the newly formed Braden Diabetes Wellness Center. I read about investing, science, and behavioral science (e.g., why we don’t know as much as we think we do — the Dunning-Kruger Effect, for example). After having played basketball at Stanford in the ‘60s, I now get my workouts at the gym.