John Eckel

National Western Life Insurance Co. provides insurance products. It offers individual whole and term life insurance including supplementary riders and annuities. The company was founded in 1956 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

LARK Technologies, Inc. provided compelling solutions for better sleep. It also offered weight loss services. The company was founded by Julia Hu and Jeff Zira in 2010 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

Frost Bank provides banking services. The company was Founded in 1868 and is San Antonio, TX.

American National Insurance Co. is a financial services company, which engages in the provision of life insurance, annuities, health insurance, credit insurance, pension products and property, and casualty insurance for personal lines, agribusiness, and commercial exposures. It operates through the following business segments: Life, Annuity, Health, Property and Casualty, and Corporate and Other. The Life segment provides individual and group life insurance products, including whole life, term life, and universal life and credit life insurance. The Annuity segment offers fixed, indexed, and variable annuity products. The Health segment includes medicare supplement, supplemental insurance, medical expense, stop-loss and credit disability products. The Property and Casualty segment consists of personal lines, and credit-related property insurance products. The Corporate and Other segment comprirses of invested assets that are not used to support its insurance activities. The company was founded by William L. Moody Jr. in 1905 and is headquartered in Galveston, TX.

CitareTx Management LLC (CitareTx) is a venture capital firm founded in August 2008 by Jeffery Sheldon and Elvin Jerome Pederson. The firm is headquartered in Houston, Texas.

Houston Medical Robotics, Inc. develops and manufactures medical robotics devices for therapeutic applications. It integrates ultrasound imaging systems to allow for the placement of a needle and guide wire into a specific part of the anatomy. The company was founded by Jeffery J. Sheldon and Kenneth Wayne Rennicks in April 2008 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

Coagulex, Inc. engages in medical research. It focuses on the development, manufacture, and sale of a MEMS based point of injury coagulation assessment tool. The company is headquartered in Houston, TX.

EMIT Corp. manufactures and supplies portable fluid warming devices. It engages in sale of devices and related products for the treatment and prevention of hypothermia caused by traumatic, environmental, and procedure related occurrences. The company was founded by Jeffery J. Sheldon in January 2009 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

AESI Holdings, Inc. provides proppant and logistics services. It offers services to the oil & natural gas industry within the Permian Basin of West Texas and New Mexico, the most active oil and natural gas basin in North America. The company was founded by Ben M. Brigham in 2017 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.