Chet Billingsley
Chairman, CEO, & Principal Financial Officer
Chet Billingsley was appointed as a director on July 29, 1994, and was named Chairman on August 15, 2009. On May 6, 2017, Mr. Billingsley was appointed as a director of Mentor's Audit Committee. He has been the company's President & CEO since 1994 and founded the private company predecessor of the company in 1985 after leaving General Electric's California-based Nuclear Division. On August 7, 2021, he was appointed Principal Financial Officer. On behalf of the company, Mr. Billingsley had conducted dozens of acquisitions and business financings during this period. He began investing in 1979 and as CEO completed the Series 65 examination and briefly was a registered investment advisor with an affiliated portfolio entity in 2010. He received his undergraduate education at West Point, and a Master's Degree in Applied Physics from Harvard University, with concurrent study at Harvard Business School and at MIT's Nuclear Engineering Department. Mr. Billingsley spent his early career in the energy sector in a broad range of technologies including coal, LNG, nuclear, and solar, plus the administration of all technology contracts for the Department of Energy in Washington, DC. He worked at General Electric from January 1979 to June 1985. After taking the firm public in 1996, Mr. Billingsley led the Company's early public gas trading company mini-tender offers, the acquisition and later sale of a dozen oil and gas partnerships, and in 2023, the creation and funding of the Mentor Capital, Inc. Class Energy Index, a tracking investment in Oil and Gas, Uranium, Coal, and related industries. Mr. Billingsley has directed the successful acquisition or investment in over thirty-eight operating portfolio businesses or entities.
Education
- West Point Military Academy, Undergrad
- Harvard University, M.S. Applied Physics
Training & Certifications
- Former Registered Investment Advisor
Professional Organizations & Affiliations
- Mentor Capital, Inc., Chairman of the Board
Lori Stansfield
Treasurer & Audit Committee Chair
Lori Stansfield is the Treasurer and Audit Committee Chair at Mentor Capital, Inc. Ms. Stansfield has taught, written about, managed, audited, and prepared financial statements during the past thirty years. Prior to becoming Treasurer and Audit Committee Chair, Ms. Stansfield worked as the Director of Audit Services at Robert R. Rediwitz & Co. in La Jolla, California, and as the Senior Audit Manager at Spicer Jeffries, LLP in Denver, Colorado, where she specialized in servicing securities broker-dealers, hedge funds, commodity pools, and private equity funds. She graduated Magna cum Laude in accounting from the University of Colorado in Denver and where she also received a Master's Degree in marketing. She is certified as a public accountant in both Colorado and California. Ms. Stansfield has no affiliated or conflicting outside business interests.
Education
- University of Colorado at Denver, B.S. Accounting
- University of Colorado at Denver, M.S. Marketing
Training & Certifications
- California Board of Accountancy, CPA
- Colorado State Board of Accountancy, CPA
Professional Organizations & Affiliations
- American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, Member
Marcia K. Meyer
Secretary
Marcia K. Meyer was named a Director and Secretary of the Board of Directors of Mentor Capital, Inc. on March 28, 2025. As Mentor’s largest outside shareholder and a former co-owner and Chief Editor of her publishing business for thirty years, Ms. Meyer contributes a unique leadership-based entrepreneurial skillset to the Company. Earlier in her career, Ms. Meyer spent over a decade in the electronics, real estate, and escrow industries, including serving as the Human Resources director at the district office of Walker & Lee Realty. Ms. Meyer graduated from Western Michigan University with a double major in biology and psychology. Ms. Meyer has no conflicting or affiliated outside business interests.
Education
- Western Michigan University, B.S. Double Major in Biology and Psychology