Trevor R. Rees-Jones transitioned from bankruptcy law to building and exiting multiple oil and gas businesses that grossed roughly $7 billion across seven deals in seven years, and now applies that entrepreneurial, cycle-tested dealmaker experience to venture investing through Cubit Capital rather than following a traditional VC or tech-operator path. As a pioneer in shale energy development who founded Chief Oil & Gas in 1984 and repeatedly timed major exits to buyers like Chevron and Chesapeake, his venture investing approach is informed by decades of capital-intensive, hard-technology resource experience rather than software-only pattern recognition.