A diversified holding company built to endure — capitalizing and stewarding a diversified platform across industries and borders.
Bates Enterprise Group exists to be a permanent financial foundation — the parent platform beneath a portfolio of operating companies, ventures, and long-term positions.
Bates Enterprise Group is a diversified holding company owning subsidiaries engaged in a number of diverse business activities — across real estate, transmedia, and sports & entertainment — while partnering with civic institutions and foundations to strengthen the communities it serves. We deploy patient, principal capital with discipline, and build relationships whose ambitions are generational in scope.
Where many firms are built for the transaction, Bates is built for the relationship. Our aim is to compound value — for our portfolio, for our partners, and for the communities connected to them.
We build platforms designed to outlast cycles, leadership, and fashion.
Principal capital means our interests sit beside our partners', not across from them.
Institution-grade confidentiality at every stage of every relationship.
One platform. Many industries. A global footprint.
Our diversified structure spans operating businesses and strategic holdings, allowing us to weather volatility in any single market while pursuing opportunity across many.
Founder & Managing Principal
Portland D. Bates founded Bates Enterprise Group to build something rare — a permanent, principal-aligned platform that grows the businesses, institutions, and communities it partners with for generations rather than quarters.
As Managing Principal, he leads the Group's vision across its capital, real estate, transmedia, and sports ventures — forging enduring alliances with corporate partners, tribal enterprises, professional sports franchises, and principal investors who share a long-term horizon.
Chief Technology Officer & VP of Infrastructure Strategy
Jace Comick architects the technology and operational backbone beneath the Group's diversified platform. His work spans advanced transmedia, AI integration, enterprise architecture, and technical operations — turning ambitious strategy into resilient, scalable systems.
A former NCAA Division I All-American (SEC, Texas A&M University), he brings elite discipline and a competitor's drive to the Group's technical vision.
