Ron E. Whitter

BJ Services Co. LLC engages in the provision of pressure pumping, cementing, stimulation, and coiled tubing services. The company was founded on May 30, 1990 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

NATCO Group, Inc. provides equipment technology for oil & gas production and processing. Its services include construction & maintenance, manufacturing, operating & leasing engineer equipment and training. The company also provides equipment solutions including oil treating, separation, gas conditioning, water quality, measurement systems and automation & controls. NATCO Group was founded in 1926 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

Grant Prideco, Inc. is engaged in drill pipe manufacturing. The firm provides engineered connections and premium tubular products that are used in oilfield exploration and development operations. The company was founded in April 2000 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLC provides assurance, tax and advisory services. Its services include audit and assurance, consulting, deals, human resources, legal, tax, and family business. The firm also offers accountability, risk management, structuring, mergers and acquisitions, and performance and process improvement. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Buffalo, NY.

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.

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.

Black Bay Energy Capital LLC (Black Bay Energy Capital) is a private equity firm founded in 2016 by Michael Lebourgeois, L. Guy Cook III, Tom Ambrose, Matt Schovee. The firm is headquartered in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Wellsite Fishing & Rental Services LLC provides rental equipment services for oil and gas industries. It offers equipment for drilling, work-over and coil tubing services to the domestic onshore oil and gas industry. The firm offers oilfield services, oilfield services, and specialty rentals. The company was founded by Kirby Arceneaux and Jessica Roger in 2013 and is headquartered in Broussard, LA.

Zahroof Valves, Inc. develops, manufactures, and sells reciprocating compressor valves, unloaders, and associated products into the global compressor valve market. The company was founded by Zahroof Mohamed in 2010 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

Soft Switching Technologies Corp. provides power quality and monitoring solutions for the automated industrial markets. The firm offers scalable, battery-free DySC products, voltage sag detectors and I-Sense intelligent sensors to semiconductor, food and beverage, and automotive industries, as well as manufacturing customers and utility industries. The firm's customers include both middle market firms and blue chip companies. The company was founded by Deepak M. Divan in 1995 and is headquartered in Middleton, WI.

Part of Acteon Group Ltd., Benthic Geotech Pty Ltd. is an Australian company that provides surveying and technical consulting services. The company is based in Perth, Australia.

Denham Capital Management LP (Denham Capital) is a private equity firm founded by Stuart Denham Porter, Riaz Qamar Siddiqi and Carl John Tricoli. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Randall & Dewey is a M&A advisor in the global oil and gas industries. It provides oil and gas companies with the knowledge base for generating maximum value from petroleum assets. The company was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

Society of Petroleum Engineers, Inc. provides petroleum engineering services. The non-profit company is based in Allen, TX and has subsidiaries in United States, India and Canada.

UBS Investment Bank provides investment banking and securities brokerage services. Its clients include institutional and corporate clients, intermediaries, governments, and hedge funds. The firm also provides merger and acquisition advisory, private placement, investment research, foreign exchange, equity, and leverage finance advisory services. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Southern Methodist University is a private university near the center of Dallas, SMU offers undergraduate, graduate, and professional programs through seven schools in the humanities and sciences, business, the performing, visual, and communication arts, engineering, education and human development, law, and theology.

Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP provides legal services. Its services include banking and finance, insurance, sanctions and controls, securization, transfer pricing, leasing, mergers and acquisitions, and healthcare services. The company is headquartered in Houston, TX.

Memorial Production Partners GP LLC owns and operates natural gas properties. The company is headquartered in Houston, TX.

Rice Drilling B LLC is a business company with interests in natural gas and oil companies. The firm acquires, explores, and develops natural gas and oil properties in the Appalachian Basin. It offers services through its subsidiaries Rice Drilling C LLC, Rice Drilling D LLC, RDB Real Estate Holdings LLC, and Blue Tiger Oilfield Services LLC. The company was founded on February 14, 2008 and is headquartered in Canonsburg, PA.

Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC (GS&Co.) is a securities brokerage firm headquartered in New York City. Founded in 1927, the firm is a subsidiary of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE: GS). GS&Co. provides services to help hedge funds manage risk, monitor portfolios, maintain liquidity and build their businesses. They offer clients access to global equity and derivatives markets, as well as foreign exchange, commodities, European Lefts, rates and credit across the Americas, Europe and Asia. The firm proactively monitors capital markets, searching for pockets of liquidity and news that may require changes to those strategies. Integration with the Goldman Sachs network gives clients access to the firm's sectored block trades and their insights into price discovery. Their electronic trading program provides clients with tools to manage their trades from pre-trade analytics to post-trade analysis.

NGP Energy Capital Management LLC operates as a private equity firm in the natural resources industry. It considers investment in companies specializing in the oil and gas acquisitions and exploitation; oil and gas development drilling; midstream acquisitions and development opportunities; and oil and gas minerals and royalties. The company was founded by Kenneth Alfredo Hersh and David Russell Albin in 1988 and is headquartered in Dallas, TX.