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Dossier · Who's Who
Lanham Napier
The chairman and co-founder of BorderPlex Digital Assets, the Project Jupiter developer, who signed the February 2025 memorandum of understanding with the governor.
At a glance
- Current roles
- Chairman and co-founder, BorderPlex Digital Assets[1],[2]
- Co-founder and CEO, BuildGroup[4]
- Principal, P23 (Napier family office)
- Earlier role
- CEO, Rackspace[4]
- Category
- Executive
- Jurisdiction
- Private sector (no public jurisdiction)
- Businesses
- BorderPlex Digital Assets (chairman/co-founder, Austin-based developer of Project Jupiter) · BuildGroup (co-founder and CEO, Austin investment holding company)
- Verification
- confirmed — Two independent accounts agree
- In the record
- 4 sources · 3 connections · 1 dated entries
- Record id
- PJP2
Key facts
- 2025-02-25Signed the February 25, 2025 memorandum of understanding with Gov. Lujan Grisham.[3]
- Presented to Doña Ana County commissioners as BorderPlex chairman.[1]
- Made public commitments on county payments and water infrastructure.[3]
- As Rackspace CEO, grew the company from $1.5 million to $1.5 billion.[4]
- Napier's on-record 'community first' framing does not name Oracle, OpenAI or Stargate.
The record
Chairman/co-founder BorderPlex; ex-Rackspace CEO (grew $1.5M→$1.5B, NYSE IPO); BuildGroup chair; P23 family-office principal. 'Community first' framing on record NEVER names Oracle/OpenAI/Stargate
Relationships · 3
In the timeline · 1
Dated entries in the record that involve this party. Appearing here is not an allegation — it means the graph draws an edge from this dossier to that event.
Sources · 4
- 1.newsEl Paso Matters — Project Jupiter is part of OpenAI/Oracle Stargate initiative; Napier as BorderPlex chairman presenting to county commissioners ↗
- 2.newsEl Paso Matters — $165B Santa Teresa data center announcement; identifies Napier as chairman/co-founder of BorderPlex Digital Assets and BuildGroup chair, ex-Rackspace CEO ↗
- 3.newsHaussamen (NM opinion/analysis) — Napier signed the Feb. 25 MOU with Gov. Lujan Grisham; his public commitments on county payments and water infrastructure ↗
- 4.official-bioRice Business — official bio: BuildGroup co-founder/CEO, grew Rackspace from $1.5M to $1.5B as CEO ↗
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