James Shepherd

Slocan is a forest products company manufacturing lumber, oriented strand board, plywood, engineered wood products, wood chips and pulp.

The Conference Board, Inc. is a membership organization working for the public interests. It creates and disseminates knowledge about management and the marketplace to help businesses in their performance and to better serve the society. The firm publishes information and analysis, makes economics-based forecasts and assesses trends, and facilitates learning by creating communities of interest that bring together senior executives from around the world. The company was founded in 1916 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

OncoGenex Technologies, Inc. develops drugs for cancer patients. Its products are being developed to block the production of specific proteins associated with the development of treatment resistance which will increase survival time and improve the quality of life for cancer patients. The company was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.

Buckman Laboratories International, Inc. manufactures specialty chemicals for water treatment, pulp & paper and leather industries. It offers chemicals and services for the paper industries that include tissue, printing and writing, virgin pulp, packaging, recycled fiber and newsprint/mechanical grades applications and water treatment solutions. The company was founded by Stanley J. Buckman in 1945 and is headquartered in Memphis, TN.