The Industrial CapitalistThe Summit.
Once a year, off the record, the builders of American energy and the capital behind them in one room. Working sessions, not panels. No stage, no lanyards, no sponsors’ remarks.
What happens there.
Everything is built around the same three questions that shape The Foundry, asked in rooms small enough that nobody can hide.
Working sessions, not panels
Small rooms and real numbers. Every session is led by someone who has signed personally for the business they are describing.
The capital table
Lenders, investors, and acquirers, present to listen before they talk. The question on the table is what they actually look for, and what makes them walk away.
The long dinner
On the closing night the whole room sits at one table under the salon rule. It is the part people remember.
The inaugural Summit is in planning. Dates and location go first to those invited.
Who is in the room.
Attendance is by invitation, extended to salon alumni, Foundry guests, and the people they nominate.
The people who run it
Founders and owners of service companies, rental fleets, fabrication shops, and pipeline and oilfield crews.
The people who fund it
Lenders, investors, and acquirers who finance and buy industrial businesses.
The people who sold it
Owners who bought, sold, or handed down a company and can say what the number was.
Not in the room: vendors, consultants, and spokespeople. The Summit is for principals.
Register interest.
Invitations go first to salon alumni and Foundry guests. If you belong in the room and are not yet known to us, this is the way to become known. Tell us who you are, and who you would bring.
Registering interest is not a booking. Requests are held in confidence and used only to plan the gathering.