Thomas Merrill Richards

UBS Investment Bank provides investment banking and securities brokerage services. Its clients include institutional and corporate clients, intermediaries, governments, and hedge funds. The firm also provides merger and acquisition advisory, private placement, investment research, foreign exchange, equity, and leverage finance advisory services. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

TCW Asset Management Co. LLC (TCW) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Los Angeles, California. The firm was founded in 1992 and is wholly-owned by The TCW Group, Inc. In 2013, TCW management and private investment funds affiliated with The Carlyle Group (NASDAQ: CG) acquired TCW Group from Société Générale. TCW provides investment management and advice for a wide array of investment strategies for institutional and individual investors through investment advisory accounts, private open- and closed-end commingled investment funds and structured investment vehicles such as collateralized debt obligations.

CDX LLC engages in the natural gas exploration and production services. Its primary products include unconventional resources, such as coal, shale, and tight sands. The company was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in Dallas, TX.

MD America Energy LLC operates as an independent oil and gas exploration company. The company was founded on December 19, 2011 and is headquartered in Fort Worth, TX.

Union Pacific Resources Group, Inc. explores, develops, produces, and markets natural gas, gas liquids, and crude oil. The company is headquartered in Fort Worth, TX.

Ulterra Drilling Technologies LP designs, manufactures, and supplies polycrystalline diamond compact drill bits to the oil and gas industry. Its products include SplitBlade, CounterForce, FastBack, XP, AirRaid™, Heavy Oil Gauge, OneShot, Omega™, and TorkBuster. The company was founded in 1927 and is headquartered in Fort Worth, TX.

Belden & Blake LLC is an independent energy company, which explores natural gas and oil properties. It is engaged in the exploitation, development, production, operation, and acquisition of oil and natural gas properties. The company was founded on June 14, 1991 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

Silver Star Properties REIT, Inc. engages in the acquisition and investment in commercial real estate properties. Its portfolio includes office buildings, retail shopping centers, flex, and industrial properties. The company was founded on February 5, 2009 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

The Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Educational Foundation, Inc. was founded in 1987 by Johnny Unitas, a former football player who was known for his charity work. The non-profit company is based in Baldwin, MD. The foundation presents the Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award annually to the nation's top quarterback who exemplifies character, scholastic and athletic achievement. The 2021 award was won by Kenny Pickett, the first player from Pittsburgh to receive the award. The foundation aims to better the lives of others and carry forward the ideals of football into the community.

Halliburton Energy Services, Inc. provides oilfield services. It offers technical products and services for petroleum, natural gas exploration and production. The company is headquartered in Houston, TX.

Newpark Drilling Fluids LLC provides field drilling fluid systems. The firm's products include DeepDrill, CyberDrill, and FlexDrill systems. It offers products for the subsea oil and gas industry. The company was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Brentwood, TN.

BJ Services Co. LLC engages in the provision of pressure pumping, cementing, stimulation, and coiled tubing services. The company was founded on May 30, 1990 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo, Inc. is the rodeo and livestock show. It supports education and promotes better breeding and marketing of livestock. It judges nearly 32,000 livestock entries and awards prizes in six categories and also funds agricultural and research scholarships as well as education endowments in support of groups like Future Farmers of America and 4H. Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo events are held at the Reliant Stadium. The company was founded in 1931 and is located in Houston, TX.

Society of Petroleum Engineers, Inc. provides petroleum engineering services. The non-profit company is based in Allen, TX and has subsidiaries in United States, India and Canada.

Ameresco Select, Inc. engages in the provision of energy services for businesses and organizations. The company was founded by David S. Dayton in 1982 and is headquartered in Framingham, MA.

Endurance Resources Holdings LLC owns and operates oil and gas properties. It offers oil and gas drilling operations. The company was founded by Don Ritter and Garrett Smith and is headquartered in Addison, TX.

Stonebridge Technologies, Inc. offers IT advisory and implementation services. It provides enterprise business consulting, technical asset management, technical architecture planning, performance management, enterprise content management, data integration & reporting, unstructured data management, business process integration and enterprise infrastructure solutions. Stonebridge Technologies was established in 1995 by James Ivy and is headquartered in Addison, TX.

BP Capital LP provides energy trading services. The firm also invests in the energy futures, sectors and dependent industries. The company was founded by Thomas Boone Pickens, Jr. in 1996 and is headquartered in Dallas, TX.

Weiss Multi-Strategy Advisers LLC is a SEC-registered investment adviser and hedge fund manager headquartered in New York City with an additional office in Hartford, Connecticut. They are a wholly-owned subsidiary of GWA LLC. The firm is an affiliate of George Weiss Associates, Inc. (GWAI), formerly a SEC and NASD registered broker/dealer which was founded by George A. Weiss in 1978. GWAI was reorganized in 2005 and Weiss Multi-Strategy Advisers LLC was formed as the investment advisory entity which would manage GWAI?s private investment funds, managed accounts and proprietary capital. Weiss Multi-Strategy Advisers provides discretionary investment advisory services to private investment funds, registered investment companies, separately managed accounts for institutional investors, charitable organizations and entities affiliated with the firm.

Fund America Investors Corp. II provides investment and financial services. It engages in the issuance and administration bonds and securities. The company was founded in December, 1992 and is headquartered in Greenwood Village, CO

Southern Methodist University is a private university near the center of Dallas, SMU offers undergraduate, graduate, and professional programs through seven schools in the humanities and sciences, business, the performing, visual, and communication arts, engineering, education and human development, law, and theology.

BP Capital Fund Advisors LLC (BPFCA) is an independent registered investment advisor headquartered in Dallas, Texas. The firm was founded in 2013 to provide discretionary and non-discretionary portfolio management and investment advisory services to registered investment vehicles and separately managed accounts.