Jim Newell

Premier Geospatial, Inc. provides digital on-line mapping products and services. Its products include color infrared imagery, landuse and landcover, urban forestry, change detection, and digital elevation model. The company was founded by Brian Webster, Anthony Palizzi and Michael O'Connell and in 1999 and is headquartered in Arvada, CO.

Southwest Windpower, Inc. designs and manufactures small wind turbines. Its systems can be applied at residential homes, commercial properties, micro-grids, remote cabins, telecom transmitters, offshore platforms, water pumping and desalination projects. The firm's products include Skystream, AIR, Whisper and Financing customer's personal wind turbine. The firm has locations in Germany and The United States. The company was founded in March 1987 by Andrew Kruse and David Calley and is headquartered in Flagstaff, AZ.

Varidigm Corp. provided motor controllers to the heating, ventilating, and air conditioning industry. The company was founded by Bill Bassett in 1999 and was headquartered in Plymouth, MN.

RigNet, Inc. is a technology company, which engaged in the provision of customized communications services, applications, and cybersecurity solutions. It operated through the following segments: Managed Communications Services, Applications & Internet-of-Things, Systems Integration and Corporate. The Managed Communications Services segment comprises remote communications, telephony, and technology services for offshore and onshore drilling rigs and production facilities, support vessels, and other remote sites. The Applications & Internet-of-Things segment provided applications over-the-top of the network layer included Software as a Service (SaaS) offered such as a real-time machine learned and AI data platform, edge computed solution services. The Systems Integration segment gives design and implementation services for customer telecommunications systems. The Corporate segment consists of unallocated executive and support activities, interest expense, income taxes and eliminations. RigNet was founded by Omar Kulbrandstad in March 22, 2000 and was headquartered in Houston, TX.

WorldTelemetry, Inc. provides software that enables intelligent tank replenishment decisions for for companies with liquid stock inventories. WorldTelmetry's Asset Requirements Planning (ARP) solution combines this powerful analytics software, a user-friendly web interface and unique, intrinsically safe wireless monitoring hardware. Together, these technologies allow for unprecedented access to the information necessary for the absolute best inventory management decisions. Its ARP solutions empower its clients to reduce distribution expenses while substantially improving their supply chain management. The analytics software provides managers with automatic analysis of tank demand data through forecasting, optimal level calculations and even order suggestions. For companies with tank assets located outside of their manufacturing facilities, particularly those who offer their customers vendor-managed or consignment inventory services, its solutions offer them a serious competitive edge over companies with less visibility and control over their assets. As a trusted advisor, WTI partners with its clients to continually improve their business processes. With the cost of carrying excess inventory so high and competition in the marketplace so fierce, WTI is committed to advancing its technology and software solutions to help improve its clients' efficiencies and customer service practices, while also streamlining their inventories.

Part of BHP Group Ltd., Hamilton Oil Corp. explores and produces oil and natural gas. The company is based in Denver, CO.

The Aspect Group used to design, develop and support web applications. Its services used to include content management, corporate portals, IT implementation, customized application development, hosting and application management. Its clients were First Choice Holidays, Orange, Barclays Global Investors and Pfizer. It was founded in 1995 and was headquartered in London, UK

Part of Halliburton Co., GeoGraphix, Inc. is a geoscience and engineering software company. The company is based in Denver, CO. GeoGraphix was acquired by Landmark Graphics Corp., part of Halliburton Co. from October 04, 1996 on June 08, 1995 for $15.40 million.

OPX Biotechnologies, Inc. engages in the development and production of bio-based chemicals and fuels. The company was founded by Ryan T. Gill, Peter Long, and Michael Lynch in 2007 and is headquartered in Boulder, CO.

Houston Ventures (Houston Ventures) is a private equity/venture capital subsidiary of Sanders Morris Harris Group Private Equity founded in 1992 by Jim Newell. The firm is headquartered in Houston, Texas.

Syntex Management Systems, Inc. provides operational risk management software and services that help companies ensure the health and safety of their workers, avoid devastating accidents, protect the environment and cut costs. Its solutions turn continuous improvement strategies into repeatable processes for assessing risks and implementing corrective measures. The company was founded in 1995 by Joseph E. Stough and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

GridPoint, Inc. provides energy management and sustainability solutions. Its data-driven energy management solution solves problems by leveraging big data analytics, software-as-as-service low-cost computing, and wireless technologies to enable integrated and automated energy management. The firm serves the restaurant, retail, grocery, convenience and government industries. The company was founded by Peter L. Corsell in 2003 and is headquartered in Reston, VA.

LiquidFrameworks, Inc. provides cloud-based mobile field operations management solutions serving the oil and gas, industrial, and environmental service industries. Its services include requirements gathering, business process requirements identification and analysis, project planning and design, project management, business process and change, data loading and testing, documentation, and FieldFX and interface training. The company was founded by Travis M. Parigi in 2001 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

Oseberg, Inc. provides oil and gas services. The firm offers data analytics, business intelligence, big data, upstream and midstream services. The company was founded by Abderson C. Evan and Erik Gilje and is headquartered in Oklahoma City, OK.

Energy & Power Solutions, Inc. was engaged in providing energy solutions serving commercial, industrial, and manufacturing customers across North America encompassing the food and beverage, meat, dairy, paper, aerospace, oil and gas, and real estate investment trust industries. The company was founded in 2001 and was headquartered in Costa Mesa, CA.