Michael C. Morgan is a co-founding partner of Triangle Peak Partners, LP, and serves as its chairman and chief executive officer. Since 2004, he has been the president and chief executive officer of Portcullis Partners, LP, a private investment partnership and one of Triangle Peak’s largest limited partners.
Morgan also serves as the lead director of Kinder Morgan, Inc. (KMI), the largest energy infrastructure company in North America, which operates or owns an interest in over 80,000 miles of pipelines and 180 terminals. He joined Kinder Morgan when it was founded in early 1997 and headed its corporate development efforts until 2001, completing 23 acquisitions worth over $5 billion and later serving as company president until 2004.
He has represented Triangle Peak Partners on the boards of Bunchball, Lytx and SCIenergy. He is a frequent volunteer at Stanford University, currently serving on the GSB Management Board, the Precourt Energy Institute, the DAPER Fund and several ad hoc committees. Morgan previously served on the boards of two public energy funds affiliated with Kayne Anderson (NYSE: KYN and KYE and was an adjunct professor in the practice of management at the Jones Graduate School of Management at Rice University.
Morgan received a bachelor’s degree in economics and a master’s degree in sociology from Stanford University. He later earned his MBA from Harvard Business School.