Kenneth W. Maddox

Sepragen Corp. provides biotech drugs and high value nutritional and beverage products. Its products include chromatography systems, bio reactor, chromatography columns and chromatography resins. The company was founded by Vinit Saxena in 1985 and is headquartered in Hayward, CA.

Raymond James & Associates, Inc. (RJA) is a registered broker-dealer headquartered in St. Petersburg, Florida. The firm was founded in 1962 and is a subsidiary of Raymond James Financial, Inc. (NYSE: RJF), a diversified holding company. RJA offers a full array of capital markets services, strategic advice and planning for institutional investors.

New Flyer Industries Canada ULC designs and manufactures heavy-duty transit buses. It offers drive systems powered by clean diesel, liquefied natural gas, compressed natural gas and electric trolley as well as diesel-electric hybrid vehicles. The company was founded in 1930 and is headquartered in Winnipeg, Canada.

Halliburton Energy Services, Inc. provides oilfield services. It offers technical products and services for petroleum, natural gas exploration and production. The company is headquartered in Houston, TX.

Wood Group Mustang, Inc. provides project management, engineering, procurement, and construction management services. It also offers analysis and measurement, construction operations, flow assurance, laser scanning, project management consulting, project systems management, training and facilitating, and professional services. The company was founded by Paul Redmon, William G. Higgs and Felix Covington in July 1987 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

PetroCosm Corp provides business-to-business services for the purchasing of goods and services. The private company is based in Houston, TX.

University of Houston System offers higher education degrees and job training or vocational study programs. It offers about 280 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in fields such as business, education, humanities and law. It was founded in 1927 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

Balfour Beatty Construction, Inc. (BBCI), the North American civil engineering arm of UK-based Balfour Beatty plc, provides heavy construction and civil engineering services. One of the top bridge and highway contractors in the US, it works primarily in California, Texas and the eastern US. The company has worked on the San Mateo-Hayward Bridge and the Golden Gate Bridge in California and is involved in cleaning Narragansett Bay by upgrading sewer systems in Rhode Island. Founded in 1990, the firm is located in Atlanta, GA.

The Chamber of Commerce of The United States of America provides information on how businesses can adapt their workforce development and management strategies to deal with the changing labor market. The non-profit company is based in Washington and has subsidiaries in the United States. The Chamber of Commerce of The United States of America is the world's largest business organization, advocating, connecting, informing, and fighting for business growth and success. The American company was founded by Michael Scown, and Suzanne P. Clark has been the CEO of the company since 2014.

Braden Manufacturing LLC designs and manufactures gas turbine and exhaust systems. Its products include diverter dampers, exhaust stacks, inlet silencers, filters, filter houses, expansion joints, exhaust plenums or diffusers and exhaust silencers. The company was founded by Glenn T. Braden in 1923 and is headquartered in Tulsa, OK.

Center for Houston's Future, Inc. engages in the development of a culture and practice of long-range regional planning, opportunity and issue identification, broad diverse community input and consensus building. The company was founded by James D. Calaway and Eugene Vaughan in 1992 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

Greater Houston Community Foundation provides community improvement services. The company was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

The National Association of Manufacturers is an organization that works for the success of over 12.9 million people who are involved in manufacturing. The non-profit company is based in Washington and has subsidiaries in the United States. The American company's work is based on four core values that drive the industry. The company commissioned a study in August 2015, which found that the EPA's proposed ozone rule could reduce GDP by $140 billion. The CEO of the company is Jay Timmons.

The Alabama Institute for Deaf & Blind is based in Talladega, AL. The institute provides services to over 30,000 people per year through five campuses and a statewide network of regional centers. The institute was founded in 1858 and is known as America's most comprehensive education, rehabilitation, and service program for individuals who are blind, deaf, deafblind, or multidisabled.

Stellar Bank operates as a state chartered commercial bank. Its services include treasury management, business checking, and financial education. The company was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

JumpStart Wireless Corp. provides wireless data entry services. It builds customized enterprise mobile applications to optimize daily reports and reporting systems. The firm automates the field staff's paperwork including: work orders, time cards, daily reports, punch lists, inspections, sales orders, etc. The company was founded by Jeffrey Bonar in 2000 and is headquartered in Fort Lauderdale, FL.

Part of Cornerstone Building Brands, Inc., Metal Coaters of California, Inc. provides coating, engraving, and allied services. The company is based in Rancho Cucamonga, CA.

Collaborative for Children provides child care resource and referral services to companies. It offers child care programs and referral is made available to all families, free of charge. The company was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

NCI Group, Inc. manufactures pre-engineered metal building systems and components. The company is headquartered in Houston, TX.

Christus Foundation for Healthcare engages in the provision of health, education and wellness program. It funds and gives organizational support for programs in the Houston-Galveston area. The company was founded in 1966 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

Weatherford International, Inc., provides equipment and services used in the drilling, evaluation, completion, production, and intervention of oil and natural gas wells worldwide. Its products and services include artificial lift systems, such as progressing cavity pumps, reciprocating rod lift systems, gas lift systems, hydraulic lift systems, plunger lift systems, hybrid lift systems, wellhead systems, production optimization products, well optimization controllers, flow measurement metering and software solutions, field optimization tools, and heavy oil production optimization equipment. The company is base in Houston, TX