Lester Alexander

Lecorgne Loewenbaum & Co. LLC provides financial advisory services to emerging-growth and middle market companies. Its services provided by the company include merger and acquisition, sale and divestiture, recapitalizations, and private placements of equity and debt securities. The company was founded by R. Parker Lecorgne and is headquartered in New Orleans, LA.

A5 Corp. provides Information Technology and cloud computing technologies and services. Its services include Configurator, Oracle CPQ Cloud, Oracle Sales Cloud, E-Business Suite, Sales Performance Management (SPM), Master Data Management (MDM), Service Automation, Industry Solutions and Marketing Automation. The company was founded by Vinay Kruttiventi in 2004 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Founded in 1946, Howard Weil, Inc. is a broker/dealer located in New Orleans, Louisiana with an additional office in Houston, Texas. On November 1, 2012, Howard Weil became part of Scotia Capital (USA), Inc., a US registered broker-dealer and a member of FINRA and the NYSE. Scotia Capital (USA), Inc. is owned by the Bank of Nova Scotia (NYSE: BNA), aka Scotiabank. The firm is an energy investment boutique that provides equity research, institutional sales and trading, and investment banking services. They cover companies in the following energy sectors: major integrated oil, exploration and production, oilfield service, gas and power, independent refiners and coal producers. Howard Weil's sales force deals only with energy securities and covers institutional accounts in the US and internationally. Their trading expertise spans all sectors of the energy industry and includes small-, mid- and large-cap companies.

Advantage Capital Partners (Advantage Capital) is a private equity firm founded in 1992 by Steven T. Stull and David W. Bergmann. The firm is headquartered in New Orleans, Louisiana.

The Small Business Investor Alliance is an association of senior investment professionals focused on the lower middle market. The non-profit company is based in Washington and was founded by Jonathan F. Wilson. The American company's public policy goals are focused on maintaining access to growth capital for small businesses to support economic growth and job creation. The company recommends policies to unleash more capital for job creation and economic growth, including encouraging investment in rural business investment companies and venture and growth capital.

Ferrara Fire Apparatus, Inc. manufacture of custom built, heavy duty emergency response vehicles. Its lineup of custom fire apparatus includes the Inferno, Igniter, Cinder, and Ultra Fire Chassis, Heavy Duty Aerial Ladders and Platforms, Pumpers, Tankers, Rescues, Incident Command and Heavy Rescue Trailers, Inundator Industrial Fire Apparatus and Wildland Interface Vehicles. The company was founded by Chris Ferrara in 1979 and is headquartered in Holden, LA.

Jefferson Capital Management LLC (Jefferson Capital Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 2001 by William Harper and Paul Giffin. The firm is headquartered in Mandeville, Louisiana.