In the summer of 1990, the forces of Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait, oil prices skyrocketed, and a young college student’s life changed forever.
Javier Loya, interning at a crude oil brokerage firm to raise money for law school, became mesmerized by the ear-splitting ambiance of ringing telephones and roaring traders in the run-up to the first Gulf War.
A decade later, the first generation Mexican-American launched a Houston company that, in the aftermath of Enron’s collapse, would eventually become one of the world’s largest commodities brokerage firms.