Kenneth H. Beer

Waterman Logistics, Inc. engages in the operation of diversified fleet and foreign flag vessels. It provides international and domestic maritime transportation services to commercial and governmental customers. The firm operates through the following business segments: Jones Act, Pure Car Truck Carrier (PCTC) and Rail-Ferry. The Jones Act segment deploys bulk carries, belt self-unloading coal carrier, and vessel that transports molten sulphur. The PCTC segment deploys a vessels that transports all types of vehicles, from fully assembled passenger cars to construction machinery and equipment in large numbers on multiple internal decks. The Rail Ferry segment uses two double deck roll on roll off rail ferries. The company was founded by Erik F. Johnsen and Niels W. Johnsen in 1947 and is headquartered in Mobile, AL.

Stone Energy Corp. is an independent oil and natural gas company engaged in the acquisition, exploration, exploitation, development and operation of oil and gas properties. It operates in the Gulf of Mexico Basin. The company was founded by James Hiram Stone in 1993 and is headquartered in Lafayette, LA.

Plains Exploration & Production Co. was an independent energy company, which was engaged in the activities of acquiring, developing, exploring and producing oil and gas properties. It was owned oil and gas properties in onshore and offshore areas of California, the Gulf Coast Region, including Haynesville Shale, Eagle Ford Shale and South and East Texas, the Mid-Continent Region and the Rocky Mountains. The company was founded on September 28, 1990 and was headquartered in Houston, TX.

Founded in 1987, Johnson Rice & Co. LLC is an institutional research and brokerage firm located in New Orleans, Louisiana. In 1991, the firm began offering investment banking services. Johnson Rice & Co. focuses primarily on the energy and specialty retail sectors

Founded in 1946, Howard Weil, Inc. is a broker/dealer located in New Orleans, Louisiana with an additional office in Houston, Texas. On November 1, 2012, Howard Weil became part of Scotia Capital (USA), Inc., a US registered broker-dealer and a member of FINRA and the NYSE. Scotia Capital (USA), Inc. is owned by the Bank of Nova Scotia (NYSE: BNA), aka Scotiabank. The firm is an energy investment boutique that provides equity research, institutional sales and trading, and investment banking services. They cover companies in the following energy sectors: major integrated oil, exploration and production, oilfield service, gas and power, independent refiners and coal producers. Howard Weil's sales force deals only with energy securities and covers institutional accounts in the US and internationally. Their trading expertise spans all sectors of the energy industry and includes small-, mid- and large-cap companies.

The Boston Consulting Group, Inc. engages in the provision of management consulting services. It specializes in automotive and mobility; biopharmaceuticals; consumer products; education; oil and gas; power and utilities; engineered products and infrastructure; financial institutions; and health care payers, providers, and services. It offers big data and advanced analytics; change management; client learning and enablement; and corporate development and financial services. The company was founded by Bruce Doolin Henderson in 1963 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Children''s Hospital of New Orleans operates children''s hospital. The firm?s services and programs include adolescent medicine, allergy & immunology, anesthesiology, audrey hepburn care center, autism center, behavioral health center, caps for kids, child life and creative therapies, children''s pediatrics, cleft lip & palate / craniofacial program, clinical trials center, cochlear implant center, critical care, dental clinic, dermatology, diabetes center, emergency medicine and endocrinology. The company is headquartered in New Orleans, LA.