Tech Titans Awards
Valor CEO Joseph DeWoody was one of four Fort Worth-area executives recognized as Tech Titan Award finalists.
DeWoody was among four finalists for Emerging Company CEO, one of 11 awards presented by the Technology Association for North Texas. The award recognizes CEO leadership at an emerging company within the technology and communications industry.
DeWoody founded Valor in 2018 after a successful career in the energy industry with specific experience in oil and gas exploration, production, and investment services.
“I'm honored to have been selected for an award based on the company's technological prowess," says DeWoody, a former football player at Baylor University. “While Valor is an emerging service provider, the centerpiece of our value proposition is our proprietary mineral.tech software platform, which digitizes the accounting, reporting, and land management of privately owned assets.
Now in its seventh year, the Tech Titan Awards were created by the Technology Association for North Texas to recognize and honor the innovators, adopters, and executors bringing high-tech solutions and innovation to a wide range of industries in the area's 11-county region.
“Since 2018, we've invested millions of dollars into R&D, software development, and innovation, and I'm very proud to have been singled out for helping to shape the future of the oil and gas industry,” DeWoody adds.
Joining DeWoody as finalists were Jay Johnson of Charles Schwab, a finalist in the category of Community Hero, which recognizes an individual employed by a North Texas technology company for outstanding achievements in community service to the North Texas area; and Sulagna Bhattacharya and Samarendra Mohanty of Bedford-based Nanoscope Therapeutics.
Bhattacharya is a finalist for the Startup CEO Award, presented to the CEO of a tech company with 2021 operating revenues of no more than $2 million. Mohanty is a finalist for the Technology Inventor Award, which recognizes the “pioneering accomplishments of a person, team or group responsible for the creation of breakthrough ideas, processes or products which have advanced the discipline(s) of the arts, education, electronics, energy, engineering, environment, medicine, and/or science.”
PureWine Inc. of Grapevine, which has developed technologies to alleviate allergic reactions to wine, is a finalist in the category of Emerging Company Innovation Award.
Nanoscope Therapeutics Inc. is a biotechnology company developing gene therapies for retinal degenerative diseases. The company recently announced that the first patient has been dosed in a Phase 2 trial of its Multi-Characteristic Opsin (MCO-010) ambient-light activatable optogenetic monotherapy for Stargardt disease.
There are no approved treatments for either of these debilitating conditions.
Winners will be announced at the Eisemann Center in Richardson on Oct. 27.
DeWoody is a Certified Mineral Manager (CMM) and a Certified Professional Landman (CPL), as well as a lifelong member of Mensa International.
DeWoody received his BBA and MBA from Baylor. He currently serves as the director of the Texas Chapter of the National Association of Royalty Owners and is a member of the Texas Board of Professional Geoscientists.
DeWoody previously earned recognition in Oil and Gas Investor Magazine's "Top 20 Under 40 Awards" and was last year's recipient of D CEO’s Energy Services and Technology Executive of the Year.
Valor has oversight and management of 8.4 million gross acres and 450,000 net royalty acres of mineral and property rights in 32 states. The company manages more than 100,000 interests, which generate more than $150 million in annual revenue for Valor's clients.
The company's professional services scope also extends beyond the energy sector to include Valor Ignite, an on-demand outsourcing services solution for accounting, business processes, contract C-suite engagements and back-office support.