MR. TRACY POOLE
Tracy Poole is a Founder and Managing Partner of FortySix Capital in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where he focuses on private investments. FortySix Capital currently manages four investment funds and several special purpose entities designed to provide investors with active management to achieve superior performance. Prior to founding FortySix, Tracy was an attorney with McAfee & Taft, Oklahoma’s largest commercial law firm, where he focused on M&A, Corporate and Securities transactions, including fund investments and startup representation. Tracy has served as General Counsel for a $4Billion AUM hedge fund and was the founder and President of an upstream oil and gas producer which had multiple successful exits. Previously, while working in the energy trading business for The Williams Companies, Tracy was credited with structuring and negotiating some of the largest wholesale transactions to exist in the energy markets.
As a first-generation college student, Tracy received a Bachelor of Science from Oklahoma State University and his Juris Doctorate from the University of Oklahoma. Tracy is an advisory board member of both the Riata Center for Entrepreneurship at Oklahoma State University and The Spears College of Business School of Entrepreneurship and is a frequent guest lecturer. Tracy is also a member of the Oklahoma State University Foundation Board of Governors and serves on the OSU Medical Authority & Trust board as well as the Board of Trustees for OSU Tulsa.
Tracy resides in Tulsa, Oklahoma with his wife Jennifer, a 1990 Oklahoma State graduate and entrepreneur. Their adult daughter, Raegan, resides in Tulsa as well. He was nominated to serve an eight-year term on the Board of Regents for Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical Colleges in March of 2025 and confirmed by the Oklahoma Senate in May of 2025. His term expires in 2033.