William Patterson

SPO Partners & Co. is an independent hedge fund manager headquartered in Mill Valley, California. The firm was co-founded in 1991 by John Scully, William “Bill” Oberndorf and William Patterson. SPO Partners offers investment advisory services only to a small number of investment entities.

Plum Creek Timber Co., Inc. is a timberland owner in the United States of America. It involves in the harvesting of trees, selling the timberland and converting trees into lumber, plywood and other wood products. It operates through following business segments: Northern Resources, Southern Resources, The Real Estate, Manufacturing, and Energy and Natural Resources. The Northern Resources segment consists of timberlands in Maine, Michigan, Montana, New Hampshire, Oregon, Vermont, Washington, West Virginia and Wisconsin. The Southern Resources segment consists of timberlands in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas and Virginia. It sells primarily softwood saw logs and pulpwood. The Real Estate segment comprises sales of higher timberlands and sales of non-strategic timberlands. The Manufacturing segment consists of two lumber mills, two plywood mills, and two medium density fiberboard facilities in Montana and one lumber remanufacturing facility in Idaho. The Energy and Natural Resources segment includes its natural resource businesses that focus on opportunities for oil and natural gas production, construction aggregates and mineral extraction, wind power and communication. The company was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

Calpine Corp. operates as power generation company, which engages in the ownership and operation of natural-gas fired and geothermal power plants. It sells power and related services to wholesale customers who include commercial and industrial end-users, state and regional wholesale market operators, and retail customers. The company was founded by Peter Cartwright in June 1984 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

The California Academy of Sciences operates as a scientific and cultural institution. The Academy houses an aquarium, a planetarium a natural history museum and a rainforest. It was founded in 1853 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.