Lester Alexander

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

MobileQubes, Inc. provides technological services. The company was founded by Sean Carrigan and Jason Palmer and is headquartered in New Orleans, LA.