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Lanham Napier

Chairman and co-founder of BorderPlex Digital Assets (developer of Project Jupiter); co-founder and CEO of BuildGroup; former Rackspace CEO

verification: confirmed

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

Businesses

BorderPlex Digital Assets (chairman/co-founder, Austin-based developer of Project Jupiter) · BuildGroup (co-founder and CEO, Austin investment holding company)

Relationships · 3

ChairsBuildGroup FoundedBorderPlex Digital Assets Principal ofP23 (Napier family office)

In the timeline · 1

Sep 19, 2025The $165B vote — 4 to 1

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Sources · 4

newsEl Paso Matters — Project Jupiter is part of OpenAI/Oracle Stargate initiative; Napier as BorderPlex chairman presenting to county commissioners ↗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 ↗newsHaussamen (NM opinion/analysis) — Napier signed the Feb. 25 MOU with Gov. Lujan Grisham; his public commitments on county payments and water infrastructure ↗official-bioRice Business — official bio: BuildGroup co-founder/CEO, grew Rackspace from $1.5M to $1.5B as CEO ↗

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