Don H. Squyres

Unocal Corp. explores, develops, produces, and markets crude oil and natural gas. The firm also produces geothermal energy in Indonesia and the Philippines and makes petroleum coke, graphite's and silicon carbide materials. The company was founded on October 17, 1890 and is headquartered in El Segundo, CA.

BP America, Inc. transports crude oil and petroleum products. The company was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

UBS AG's (NYSE: UBS) New York City-based wealth management arm is known as UBS Private Banking (US). The firm provides a range of customized wealth management products and services for private clients.

Energy Spectrum Advisors, Inc. provides financial and private equity investment consultation. The firm offers property divestitures and mergers and acquisitions services to the energy industry, primarily to independent oil and gas producers. The company was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Dallas. TX.

Moncrief Oil International, Inc. is an oil and natural gas company. The private company is based in Fort Worth, TX. The company was founded by Richard W. Moncrief. Richard W. Moncrief has been the CEO since incorporation.

McKinsey & Co., Inc. provides management consulting services. It specializes in design, marketing and sales, analytics, operations, transformation and restructuring, risk, strategy and corporate finance, and sustainability and resource productivity. The company was founded by James O. McKinsey in 1926 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

CIBC Securities, Inc. is a fund distributor located in Toronto, Ontario. The firm is a subsidiary of the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (NYSE: CM). The firm is the principal distributor of the CIBC Mutual Funds and the CIBC Family of Managed Portfolios. The CIBC Family of Managed Portfolios consists of CIBC Managed Portfolios and CIBC U.S. Dollar Managed Portfolios, which are mutual funds that invest primarily in CIBC Mutual Funds.

TD Securities, Inc. is a Canadian broker/dealer headquartered in Toronto, Ontario. The firm is a subsidiary of The Toronto-Dominion Bank (NYSE, TSE: TD). TD Securities provides a wide range of capital market products and services to corporate, government and institutional clients. Their services also include the underwriting and distribution of new debt and equity issues, providing advice on strategic acquisitions and divestitures and executing daily trading and investment needs. The firm’s equity group provides research coverage of various sectors. Their fixed-income group provides a full range of underwriting sales and trading products for Canadian, US and European debt issuers and investors.

Supplybase, Inc. provides e-business solutions for the development and sourcing of custom parts and assemblies. The company was founded by David P. Mendez, Alan Z. White and Christopher J. Golec and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Katalyst Ventures is a venture capital firm headquartered in Conshohocken, Pennsylvania.

The Houston Museum of Natural Science operates a national museum. It consists of a planetarium, environmentally-controlled butterfly center, off-site observatory, advanced IMAX theatre and temporary and permanent exhibit halls. The museum features displays on subjects such as space science, energy, paleontology, chemistry, gems and minerals, ancient Egyptians, Native Americans and Texas wildlife. The company was founded in 1909 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

Cobalt’s business model is uniquely designed to create maximum value from the asset by doing more with less while competitively accessing, discovering and producing deepwater hydrocarbon resources on a scale similar to the super majors. It starts with its small core team – flexible, decisive and fast moving using Cobalt’s proprietary, state-of-the-art data and proven, leading-edge technology. Non-core activities are sourced to outside partners and specialty providers, leveraging relationships it has forged over many years in the industry to reduce costs and compress delivery time. Utilizing industry best practices, standardized designs and strong project management throughout, The company is able to move quickly through the E&P supply chain, maximizing value for its investors and its partners.

Netherland, Sewell & Associates, Inc. provides geological, geophysical, petrophysical, engineering, and economical solution for all facets of the upstream energy industry. Its services include acquisition and divestiture evaluations, coalbed methane development studies, deepwater development studies, enhanced recovery projects, midstream services, operations engineering services, pipeline supplies studies, and equity determinations services. The company was founded by Clarence M. Netherland in 1961 and is headquartered in Dallas, TX.

Part of Oppenheimer Holdings, Inc., CIBC Wood Gundy Corp. is a Canadian company that provides brokerage services. The company is based in Toronto, Canada.

Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers operates as the voice of Canada''s upstream oil and natural gas industry. The company was founded in 1927 and is headquartered in Calgary, Canada.

Sam Houston Area Council provides scouting programs for boys and young adults. It prepares young people to make ethical and moral choices over their lifetime by instilling in them the values of the Scout Oath and Law. The company is headquartered in Houston, TX.

Energy Trust Partners LLC (ETP) is a Private Equity firm, a subsidiary of Energy Spectrum LLC founded in 2002 by Alan Hsia, Leland B. White and Patrick H. Swearingen. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Saskatoon Regional Economic Development Authority, Inc. operates business associations. The non-profit company is based in Saskatoon, Canada. Alex L. Fallon has been the CEO of the Canadian company since 2014.

Mercuria Energy Trading, Inc. provides oil well drilling services. The company was founded on May 7, 2007 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Part of David Aplin & Associates, Inc., Executive Source Partners is a recruitment services provider. The company is based in Regina, Canada. Executive Source Partners was acquired by David Aplin & Associates, Inc. on March 26, 2012.

RBC Dominion Securities, Inc. (Investment Management) (RBC Dominion Securities-IM) is the asset management division of RBC Dominion Securities, Inc., a brokerage firm headquartered in Toronto, Canada. The firm was founded in 1901 and is a subsidiary of Royal Bank of Canada (NYSE, TSE: RY). RBC Dominion Securities-IM offers a complete range of investment solutions and wealth management services to individuals, families, businesses, charitable foundations and other organizations across Canada and worldwide.

EnVen Energy Ventures LLC engages in the exploration and production of oil and gas. The company was founded on March 24, 2008 and is headquartered in Metairie, LA.

Vortus Investment Advisors (Vortus Investment) is a private equity firm founded in 2013 by Jeffrey W. Miller and Brian C. Crumley. The firm is headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas.

Butterfly Ventures Oy (Butterfly Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2012 by Matti Kanninen and Juho Risku. The firm is headquartered in Oulu, Finland.

Energy Ventures GOM LLC explores and develops crude oil and natural gas. The company is headquartered in Houston, TX.

Enven Energy Corp. is an independent oil and natural gas company, which engages in the development, exploitation, exploration and acquisition of crude oil properties. Its projects include sidetracks, recompletions, and new drill wells that are located near its own production infrastructure. It focuses on deepwater region of the U.S. Gulf of Mexico fields. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

Business Council of Canada provides program for research and consultation and advocacy of economic and social fabric. The company was founded in 1976 and is headquartered in Ottawa, Canada.

Ateios, Inc. operates as a Techstars-backed start-up developing a platform technology for manufacturing highly customizable and flexible batteries that can be integrated into electronics manufacturing. Its technology can be enabled in flexible electronics such as smart textiles, soft robotics, Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices, and medical/fitness-based wearable patches. The company was founded by Rajan Kumar and Carlos Munoz and is headquartered in Indianapolis, IN.

Nala Membranes is a women-led cleantech startup company located in Research Triangle Park. The company is based in Chapel Hill, NC. Nala is developing chemically resistant polymer membranes that make desalination and water purification using reverse osmosis easier and more affordable. The company's new material membranes are chlorine tolerant and low fouling, reducing energy and chemical cleaning and disposal costs. Nala has been funded through the National Science Foundation (NSF) SBIR program and by venture capital and angel investors to rapidly develop and commercialize their membrane innovation. The company is dedicated to changing the water crisis by producing a new chlorine tolerant membrane for reverse osmosis. The company was founded in 2018 by Beverly Sue J. Mecham and Judy Riffle, with Beverly Sue J. Mecham as the CEO.

Good Growth Capital Management LLC (Good Growth Capital) is a venture capital subsidiary of Capital A Partners LLC founded in 2017 by Amy Salzhauer and Maureen Stancik Boyce. The firm is headquartered in Charleston, South Carolina.

Capital A Partners LLC (Capital A Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 2013 by David P. Mendez and Tanya Marvin-Horowitz. The firm is headquartered in New York.