Globe Resources Group (O'Shaughnessy Family Office)

Globe Resources Group (O'Shaughnessy Family Office)

Founded in 1992, Globe Resources Group formalizes the investment activity of Gerald E. O'Shaughnessy, whose career spanned independent oil and gas exploration, midstream development, and energy technology. His most notable operational success came through co-founding GeoPark Ltd. alongside James F. Park, a publicly listed Latin American oil and gas company. The family's Kansas roots anchor a portfolio that includes the Bakken Oil Express Terminal in North Dakota, a commercial headquarters in Wichita, and an intellectual property portfolio developed across decades in the energy sector. The office invests across three distinct lanes: direct ownership of hard assets, including oil and gas reserves and industrial real estate; public securities; and early-stage venture capital. Within venture, the team targets pre-seed and seed-stage companies using direct co-investments and alternative venture models, with a stated focus on AI/ML and cybersecurity. Confirmed venture exposures are limited, though the office maintains an operational philosophy of recycling cash flows from mature energy assets into a patient, concentrated portfolio of technology bets. Geographic activity concentrates in North America. Asset ownership extends beyond financial securities. The family holds the Bakken Oil Express Terminal, a Bombardier Challenger 601-3R, and the Globe Resources Group headquarters building in Wichita. Gerald O'Shaughnessy and his family participate in several peer and civic networks, including YPO's International Chapter and the World Presidents' Organization. Philanthropy channels through the I.A. O'Shaughnessy Foundation and the Timothy P. O'Shaughnessy Foundation, maintaining a structural separation from the investment office. Globe Resources Group operates as the private consolidation vehicle for a single operator's wealth, rather than a multi-generational platform chasing external capital. The hybrid structure—illiquid, cash-flowing energy infrastructure on one side, early-stage tech on the other—creates a duration mismatch that most family offices avoid, but which mirrors the founder's own career pattern of moving capital from extraction businesses into earlier-stage ventures.