Jay Calhoun is Founder and Managing Partner of Apis Holdings, a Tulsa-based strategic advisory and private investment firm. He has served on numerous boards of private companies, sovereign wealth entities, investment and economic development organizations, and education entities. Prior to forming Apis, Jay founded and ran the private investment program for the largest sovereign tribal nation in the US. Jay began his career as an offshore roustabout, management consultant and M&A investment banker.

Jay received his Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from the University of Oklahoma, where he was a Letzeiser Award winner, and his Master of Business Administration from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, where he was a Consortium and Toigo Fellow.