One is the Dallas-based hedge fund he founded, Maverick Capital, which has grown into one of the largest in the country, with $4 billion under management.

OnLive's original investors include Warner Bros., Autodesk and Maverick Capital.

He is a senior analyst of retail stocks at Maverick Capital, a hedge fund in New York.

Until October, Mr. Abrahams, 29, was a managing director of Maverick Capital, a hedge fund in New York.

"You need a diplomat right now," said Michael Pausic, portfolio manager at the hedge fund Maverick Capital, which owns 20 million shares.

Two years ago, one of the Wyly firms, Maverick Capital, won a state contract to manage $96 million of the University of Texas endowment fund.

Today, Maverick Capital, which was founded in 1990 by Mr. Wyly and his son, Evan, manages more than $4 billion in assets from 700 institutions, including university funds.

Those documents also show that Maverick Capital invested $15 million in GreenMountain.com immediately before last year's planned stock offering.

S.E.C. documents show that if the planned stock offering by GreenMountain.com had gone forward, Maverick Capital would have retained an 11 percent stake in the company.

In 1990, co-founded hedge fund Maverick Capital, which by 2003 had about $8 billion in assets.