Distinguished Alumni Award, University of Texas at Arlington, 2007
B.S. Civil Engineering, University of Texas at Arlington, 1978

Kelcy Warren has more than 25 years experience in the energy industry. From 1992 to 1996, Warren served as president, chief operating officer and director of Cornerstone Natural Gas. He and a partner founded Energy Transfer in 1996 and began to aggregate underperforming natural gas assets with a plan to turn them into efficient, profitable systems. Energy Transfer currently has approximately 15,000 miles of natural gas gathering and transportation pipelines, plus natural gas treating and processing assets and three natural gas storage facilities, located mostly in Texas. Energy Transfer is the third largest distributor of propane in the United States and was the first company to lay a 42-inch-diameter pipeline in the state.