William L. Thacker

TEPPCO Partners LP is a publicly traded energy logistics partnership with operations that span much of the continental United States. TEPPCO owns and operates an extensive network of assets that facilitate the movement, marketing, gathering and storage of various commodities and energy-related products. The partnership's midstream portfolio of assets comprises pipelines that gather and transport refined petroleum products, crude oil, natural gas, liquefied petroleum gases (LPGs) and natural gas liquids (NGLs), and includes one of the largest common carrier pipelines for refined petroleum products and LPGs in the United States. TEPPCO also owns a marine business that operates primarily on the United States inland and Intracoastal Waterway systems, and in the Gulf of Mexico.

GenOn Energy Holdings, Inc. provides electricity generation and distribution, management of gas assets, fuel procurement, and marketing of energy and energy-linked commodities. The company was founded on January 19, 2001 and is headquartered in Princeton, NJ.

Copano Energy LLC processes and transmits natural gas. It offers midstream services to natural gas producers, including natural gas gathering, compression, dehydration, treating, marketing, transportation, processing, and fractionation services. The company was founded by John R. Eckel Jr. in 1992 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

Kayne Anderson Energy Total Return Fund, Inc. is a closed-end fund that invests principally in equity and debt securities of companies in the energy industry, such as energy-related master limited partnerships, midstream corporations, marine transportation and energy-related debt companies. Its objective is to obtain a total return with an emphasis on current income. The company was founded on June 28, 2005 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

Kayne Anderson Energy Infrastructure Fund, Inc. operates as a closed end management investment trust, which invests principally in equity securities of energy-related master limited partnerships. Its investment objective is to obtain high after-tax total returns for its shareholders. The company was founded on June 4, 2004 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

Kayne Anderson NextGen Energy & Infrastructure, Inc. is a closed-end management investment company. The firm focuses in securities of companies in the midstream and energy sector, consisting of Midstream Master Limited Partnerships (MLPs), Midstream Companies, Other MLPs, and Other Energy Companies. It intends to provide a high level of total return with an emphasis on making quarterly cash distributions to its stockholders. The company was founded on November 24, 2010 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.