[1] He serves as the chairman and co-chief executive officer of Hunt Consolidated Energy.
[5][1][2] He graduated from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas summa cum laude with a BA in Economics and Political Science with minors in Mathematics and business.
[1] In 1998, he started two electricity companies, Hunt Power and Sharyland Utilities.
[1][4] From September 1999 to January 2001, he worked on George W. Bush's presidential campaign, focusing on energy, taxes, and the budget.
[1][3] Hunter and his wife, Stephanie, were reported, in January, 2014, to have purchased the 73-year-old, 43,000-square-foot Masonic Lodge in downtown Dallas to use as a hub for collaborative ventures for the city, including housing the "Urban Innovation Lab for Youth", which would serve as "an open-access space where kids can collaborate or experiment together in solving problems – a place where they can feel safe to fail, iterate and evolve their thinking.