Dannine Avara was born on 1974 in Houston, Texas, United States. Dannine Avara and her three siblings inherited Enterprise Products Partners, the energy pipeline giant founded by their late father, Dan Duncan.
Formerly the richest person in Houston, Duncan died in 2010 at age 77 of a brain hemorrhage.
Duncan started Enterprise Products in 1968 with $10,000 and a truck; now it owns nearly 50,000 miles of natural gas, oil and petrochemical pipelines.
Avara's sister Randa Duncan Williams is the only sibling on the board of the company.
Dannine Avara is a member of Energy
Biography/Timeline
1974
Dannine Avara was born in 1974. Her Father, Dan Duncan, was the co-founder of Enterprise Products. Her mother is Jan Ellis.
2010
Avara is an investor. She inherited $3.1B upon the death of her Father. Due to a temporary repeal of the estate tax law for the year 2010, Duncan became the first American Billionaire to pay no estate tax since its enactment.