Michael Appling

American Eco Corporation is a leading provider of industrial outsourcing which includes specialty fabrication and environmental services and construction management services to a select group of commercial owners and developers. The companhy also offers its customers outsourcing solutions for an extensive array of support services such as equipment and facility repair, maintenance, refurbishment, retrofit and expansion. It's specialty fabrication services include the construction of decks, well jackets and modules for offshore oil and gas platforms, the fabrication of piping, pressure vessels, boiler tube bundles, and other equipment used in process industries, as well as the erection of structural steel support systems.

Chematch.com, Inc. provides on-line marketplace & information services. It offers Internet-based market place for purchasers and sellers of bulk commodity chemicals, plastics and fuel products. The company provides a marketplace with a real-time interactive trading exchange where members can trade 24 hours a day and seven days a week. Chematch.com is headquartered in Houston, TX.

Main Street Capital Corp., a traded business development company invests in lower middle market companies located in the United States. The fund focuses on companies with revenues of $10 million to $1.5 billion and EBITDA of $1 to $10 million. It targets companies operating in the fields of manufacturing, process, commercial, communications, technology, healthcare, consumer, and food retail. It provides debt and equity financing for buyout, refinancing, growth, and recapitalizations with an investment size of $3 to $75 million.

Xserv, Inc. provides general construction contract services such as scaffolding, insulation, abatement, refractory, fireproofing and coatings through its subsidiaries. Xserv primarily works on general building and manufacturing projects. The firm operates primarily in the US. It also provides services in Aruba and Venezuela. Its customers include Bechtel, Foster Wheeler and Fluor. The company was founded in 1999 and is located in Houston, TX

United Scaffolding, Inc. provides scaffolding services. Its services include providing equipment, sales and rentals, scaffold erection and dismantling, engineering and CAD design, and safety training programs. The company was founded by Carlos in 1998 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

TNT Crane & Rigging, Inc. engages in the provision of lifting services. It offers recurring industrial facility maintenance; large scale turnaround projects; erection, fabrication, and construction projects; installation of commercial machinery and equipment; wind farm construction and maintenance; well completion and production; compressor installation; and power, paper mill, and mining outages. The company was founded by Randy Dobbs and Troy L. Lambert in 1985 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.