Brad Knotts

Chilton Capital Management LLC (Chilton Capital) is a SEC-registered investment advisor and wealth management firm headquartered in Houston, Texas. The firm was founded in 1996 and they are a subsidiary of Knapp Brothers LLC. Chilton Capital provides a diversity of investment strategies, customized wealth management solutions, and trust company services to individuals, family offices, business owners, endowments, foundations, retirement plans and trusts on a fee-only basis.

The Teacher Retirement System of Texas (TRS) is a state-owned pension fund manager headquartered in Austin, Texas. The firm was founded by the Texas Legislature in 1937 to provide service and disability retirement benefits to teachers and administrators of the public school systems of Texas, which include institutions of higher education. In 1949, legislation expanded membership eligibility to include all employees of public education institutions. In 1985, TRS was assigned responsibility to administer health insurance program for public school retirees. The firm invests funds under its stewardship and delivers benefits to members as authorized by the Texas Legislature.

Salient Partners LP (Salient) is an asset management boutique headquartered in Houston, Texas. The firm was founded in 2002 by Andrew Linbeck, Jeremy Radcliffe and Haag Sherman. In 2003, the firm merged with Pinnacle Management & Trust Co. to form Salient Partners & Pinnacle Trust Co. Two years later the firm adopted the name Salient Partners LP. In 2022, they were acquired by Westwood Holdings Group, Inc. (NYSE: WHG). Salient provides real assets, tactical equity alternatives, and private solutions for institutional investors and investment advisors.

Platform Partners LLC (Platform Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 2006 by Frederick W. Brazelton, Frederick R. Lummis, and Brad L. Morgan. The firm is headquartered in Houston, Texas.

Sentinel Trust Co. is an independent wealth management firm headquartered in Houston, Texas. The firm was founded in 1997 by the Flowers and Fruehauf families by combining their complementary strengths—real estate, oil and gas, and public and private equities for the Flowers family; hedge funds and private equity for the Fruehauf family—and administration of complex wealth planning structures by both families, they would be able to attract top professionals to serve them as well as other similarly situated families. Sentinel Trust provides individualized investment management and trust administration services to very high net-worth families.

Piper Sandler & Co. (Broker) (PSC-Broker) is the full-service brokerage division of Piper Sandler & Co., a financial service firm headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota. They are a subsidiary of Piper Sandler Companies (NYSE: PIPR). The firm was founded in 1969 and previously known as Piper Jaffray & Co. They became Piper Sandler & Co. when Piper Jaffray Companies and Sandler O’Neill & Partners, L.P. merged to become Piper Sandler Companies in 2020. PSC-Broker provides brokerage and investment banking services to financial institutions, corporations and other financial investors. Their core focus sectors are Agriculture, renewables & cannabis, Business services, Chemicals & Materials, Consumer, Diversified industrials & services, Energy, Financial services, financial sponsors, Healthcare, and Technology.

Diesslin Group, Inc. (DG) is an asset management firm headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas. The firm was founded by David Diesslin in 1980. DG provides fee-only financial advisory services and wealth management to individuals, closely held businesses, private foundations, and endowments.

Natural Gas Partners LLC (NGP) is a private equity firm, a subsidiary of NGP Energy Capital Management, LLC founded in 1988 by David Russell Albin and Kenneth Alfredo Hersh. The firm is headquartered in Dallas, Texas.

RR Advisors LLC is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in Dallas, Texas. The firm was founded by Robert Raymond in 2004. RR Advisors provides discretionary investment advisory services to certain private investment funds and separately managed accounts and those that invest in them.

Ellison Ranching Co. provides cattle ranching services. The private company is based in Tuscarora, NV.

ArcLight Capital Holdings LLC (ArcLight Capital) is a private equity firm founded by Dan R. Revers and Robb Eric Turner in 2000. The firm is headquartered in Boston, MA.

The Sterling Group LP (The Sterling Group) is a private equity firm founded in 1982 by Frank J. Hevrdejs. The firm is headquartered in Houston, Texas.

Moody's Investors Service, Inc. is a credit rating and investment research firm headquartered in New York City. They are a subsidiary of Moody's Corp. (NYSE: MCO). The firm performs international financial research and analysis on commercial and government entities and provides a variety of analytic tools for assessing credit risk. Their clients include creditors, investment banks and commercial banks.

ACM Ltd (ACM) is a private equity firm founded in 2000 by Pentti Karkkainen and Jeffrey van Steenbergen. The firm is headquartered in Calgary, Canada.

Barclays Capital, Inc. is a registered broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1997 and is a subsidiary of Barclays Group US, Inc., ultimately owned by Barclays plc (LON: BARC) in Great Britain. Barclays Capital provides large corporate, government and institutional clients a full spectrum of prime brokerage services which includes equities and fixed income financing, OTC Clearing, Futures and Foreign Exchange Prime Brokerage and access to industry insights and analytics from their Strategic Consulting team.

Founded in 1898, Northeastern University is a private research university located in the heart of Boston. Northeastern teaches worldwide experiential learning, urban engagement, and interdisciplinary research that meets global and societal needs. The University offers a range of undergraduate and graduate programs leading to degrees through the doctorate in nine colleges and schools.

Main Street Capital Partners LLC(Main Street Capital Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 1990 by Vincent Foster. The firm is headquartered at Houston, Texas.

Tudor, Pickering, Holt & Co. Securities LLC (TPH) is a broker/dealer headquartered in Houston, Texas. The firm was founded in 2007 by Robert Tudor III. They are a subsidiary of Perella Weinberg Partners Group LP, which is ultimately owned by Perella Weinberg Partners (NASDAQ: PWP). TPH provides a full array of trading and execution services for their institutional and corporate clients in the energy sector. They focus on the upstream, midstream and oilfield service sectors.

Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors LP (Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors) is a private equity subsidiary of Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors LP founded in 1991. The firm is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

B&B Laboratories, Inc. provides professional services to support each client and project by incorporating industry resources, relationships, technology, and safe practices. The firm offers oceanographic services, including acquisition, sampling, analysis and scientific interpretation, to the marine environmental, geochemical, geotechnical and survey marketplace. The company was founded in May 1996 and is headquartered in College Station, TX.

Part of Wells Fargo & Co., Wells Fargo Energy Capital, Inc. is a company based in Minneapolis, MN.

Rice Investment Group (Rice Investment Group) is a private equity firm founded in 2018 by Daniel Joseph Rice. The firm is headquartered in Carnegie, Pennsylvania.

Kinetic Upstream Technologies LLC develops automated rotary steerable systems and applications for drilling. The company was founded by Jeff Lasater and George Sutherland and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

EIV Capital LLC (EIV Capital) is a private equity firm co-founded by Anthony Annunziato and Patricia B. Melcher in 2009. The firm is headquartered in Houston, Texas.

Sycamore Tree Capital Partners LP is an investment firm that specializes in alternative credit. The private company is based in Dallas, TX and has subsidiaries in the United States. The firm has deep experience across economic and market cycles, and its investment expertise includes bank loans, high yield bonds, structured credit, and special situations. The company was founded in 2019 by Jack Yang, Mark Kiyoshi Okada, and Trey B. Parker, with Mark Kiyoshi Okada serving as the CEO since then.

Bayou City Energy Management LLC (Bayou City Energy) is a private equity firm founded in 2015 by William M. McMullen. The firm is headquartered in Houston, Texas.

Rondo Energy, Inc. specializes in the development of the Rondo Heat Battery, a breakthrough energy technology that provides low-cost, zero-emission heat for industrial use. Rondo Energy is based in Oakland, CA, and the CEO of the company is John Setel O'Donnell. The company's focus is on the innovative design and potential implications of this game-changing technology for the future of sustainable heat and power.

Part of JPMorgan Chase & Co., J.P. Morgan & Co., Inc. is a financial services company based in New York. The American company provides financial services.

Old Ironsides Energy LLC (Old Ironsides Energy) is a private equity firm founded in August 2013. The firm is headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts.

ArcLight Capital Partners LLC provides investment services. It invests in midstream, power, and production opportunities with substantial growth potential, significant current income and meaningful downside protection, typically on a proprietary basis. The company was founded by Daniel Raymond Revers and Robb Eric Turner in 2001 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.