Chris King

Platform Partners LLC (Platform Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 2006 by Frederick W. Brazelton, Frederick R. Lummis, and Brad L. Morgan. The firm is headquartered in Houston, Texas.

Trey Industries, Inc. provides commercial and industrial construction services. It specializes in industrial construction and maintenance services. The firm offers building construction, equipment erection, demolition, sitework, concrete, structural steel, and piping. The company was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in Texas City, TX.

SigmaTel LLC designs, develops, and markets integrated circuits. Its products are used in the digital media players, printers, and televisions. The firm has operations in Taiwan, Singapore, South Korea, and Japan. The company was founded by Spence H. Jackson in 1993 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

Natural Gas Partners LLC (NGP) is a private equity firm, a subsidiary of NGP Energy Capital Management, LLC founded in 1988 by David Russell Albin and Kenneth Alfredo Hersh. The firm is headquartered in Dallas, Texas.

Tallgrass Equity LLC distributes petroleum products through pipelines. The company is headquartered in Leawood, KS.

Constant Therapy, Inc. creates an online health system that provides ongoing rehabilitation services to patients. The firm provides tools for continuous and personalized therapy to people with cognitive, language, communication and learning disorders. It also provides tools for care to people who have suffered a traumatic brain injury (TBI), stroke, dementia; or children who need special education and care due to learning disabilities or other disorders. The company was founded by Veera Anantha, Swathi Kiran, Ehsan Dadgar and Mahendra Advani in 2012 and is headquartered in Lexington, MA.

Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC is a registered broker-dealer subsidiary of Morgan Stanley Domestic Holdings, Inc., ultimately owned by Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) in the US. Headquartered in New York City, the firm was founded in 1987 and provides debt and equity services including underwriting, M&A advice, securities dealing and brokerage and trade execution. Their client base ranges from large global institutional investors to hedge funds at the cutting edge of innovation in the industry.

Grant Thornton LLP provides accounting, tax and business consulting services. It offers advisory, business consulting, business risk, enterprise technology and innovation, transaction services, data analytics, cyber risk, and data integrity services. The firm serves the construction, real estate and hospitality, consumer and industrial products, energy, financial services, health care and life sciences, not for profit organizations, private equity, public sector, and technology industries. The company was founded in 1924 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Barclays Capital, Inc. is a registered broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1997 and is a subsidiary of Barclays Group US, Inc., ultimately owned by Barclays plc (LON: BARC) in Great Britain. Barclays Capital provides large corporate, government and institutional clients a full spectrum of prime brokerage services which includes equities and fixed income financing, OTC Clearing, Futures and Foreign Exchange Prime Brokerage and access to industry insights and analytics from their Strategic Consulting team.

Lime Rock Management LP (Lime Rock Management) is Private Equity firm founded in 1998 by Jonathan Clark Farber and John T. Reynolds. The firm is headquartered in Westport with additional office in London.

University of Houston System offers higher education degrees and job training or vocational study programs. It offers about 280 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in fields such as business, education, humanities and law. It was founded in 1927 and is headquartered 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.

Tudor, Pickering, Holt & Co. Securities LLC (TPH) is a broker/dealer headquartered in Houston, Texas. The firm was founded in 2007 by Robert Tudor III. They are a subsidiary of Perella Weinberg Partners Group LP, which is ultimately owned by Perella Weinberg Partners (NASDAQ: PWP). TPH provides a full array of trading and execution services for their institutional and corporate clients in the energy sector. They focus on the upstream, midstream and oilfield service sectors.

Founded in 1958, Merrill Lynch Piece Fenner & Smith, Inc. is an SEC registered broker/dealer located in New York City. The firm is a subsidiary of BAC North America Holding Co. and their ultimate parent is Bank of America Corp. (NYSE BAC).

Part of Tallgrass Energy LP, Tallgrass MLP GP LLC provides investment services. The company is based in Overland Park, KS. David G. Dehaemers has been the CEO of the company since 2013.

HMI Capital Management LP (HMI) is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor and hedge fund management firm headquartered in San Francisco, California. The firm was founded by Mick Hellman in 2008 as HMI Capital LLC and renamed HMI Capital Management LP in 2021. HMI provides discretionary investment advisory services to privately-offered investment funds.

Tendenci, Inc. is an open source content management systems. Its solution offers membership management, event calendar and registration, online payments, detailed reporting, job board, and business directories. The company was founded by Edward G. Schipul in 1997 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

Tallgrass Development LP provides natural gas transportation and storage services. The firm also operates natural gas processing plants in Wyoming; and a carbon dioxide and sulfur treating facility in West Frenchie Draw, Wyoming. The company is headquartered in Leawood, KS.

Tallgrass Energy Holdings LLC engages in business services industry. The company is headquartered in Overland Park, KS.

TEGP Management LLC is an investment holding private company. The company is based in Leawood, KS. The CEO of the company is Matthew P. Sheehy.

Pacheco Koch Consulting Engineers, Inc. provides civil engineering and land surveying services. Its services include site development, utilities and infrastructure, street and highway, pre and post design, geographic information systems, land surveying, landscape architecture and traffic engineering. The company was founded by Mark A. Pacheco and James A. Koch, Jr. in 1990 and is headquartered in Dallas, TX.

The North Texas Commission is a public-private partnership that manages the region's unified advocacy voice at the state and federal levels. The private company is based in Irving, TX. The commission is dedicated to advancing the vibrancy of the region and achieves impactful outcomes benefiting the 13-county area it serves. As the lead convener of subject matter experts, the NTC improves the workforce pipeline and cultivates future leaders. The CEO of the company is Chris Wallace.