Craig Reid

The Catalyst Group Inc (Catalyst Group) is a private equity firm founded in 1990 by Ron T. Nixon and Rick L. Herrman. The firm is headquartered in Houston, Texas.

Zmanda, Inc. provides open source backup and recovery solutions for small to medium businesses. Its innovations include technology to backup data from live applications and databases directly to a storage cloud. The company was founded by Chander Kant, K. K. George and Paddy Sreenivasan in 2005 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

MS Directional LLC operates as a directional drilling service company. It provides down-hole surveying, measurement while drilling, down-hole motors, horizontal drilling, and steering tool services. The company was founded in 1980 and is headquartered in Conroe, TX.

Catalyst/Hall is a private equity firm founded by Catalyst Group and Hall Brothers Holding in 2002. The firm is headquartered in Texas, United States.

GroundWork Open Source, Inc. provides an open platform for enterprise-class network, application, and cloud monitoring. It delivers Unified Monitoring for Real with an open platform for easy integrations and customized visualizations of cloud, virtualization, network, application, server, and storage data. The firm serves the aerospace and defense, life sciences and health care, consumer and retail, education, manufacturing, energy and utility, financial, research and technology, government and telecommunications industries. The company was founded by David Lilly, Robert Fanini and Thomas Stocking in 2004 and is headquartered in Grand Rapids, MI.

Wildlife Conservation Society operates as a non-governmental organization aiming to save wildlife. The firm saves wildlife and wild places worldwide through science, global conservation, education, and the management of the urban wildlife parks, led by the flagship Bronx Zoo. It protects animals like gorillas in Congo, tigers in India, wolverines in the Yellowstone Rockies, and ocean giants. The company was founded on April 26, 1895 and is headquartered in Bronx, NY.

Gulf States Toyota, Inc. distributes new Toyota vehicles and parts. It offers sedans, minivans, sport utility vehicles and trucks. The firm serves Toyota, Scion and Lexus dealerships throughout Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Mississippi. The company was founded by Thomas Hoyt Friedkin in 1969 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

Friedkin Cos, Inc. operates as a holding company with primary interests in distribution of cars and car parts. The company was founded on April 13, 1978 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

Young Presidents' Organization, Inc. is a global leadership community of over 30,000 chief executives from 142 countries. The non-profit company is based in Irving, TX and has a global presence of subsidiaries in several regions. The company's mission is to help its members become better leaders and better people. The company was founded in 1950 by Ray Hickok, Khalid Mohamed Jassem Kanoo. Thayer Smith has been the CEO of the company since 2007.

CircleUp Advisors LLC (CircleUp Advisors) is a venture capital subsidiary of Brightflow AI. Inc founded in 2011 by Ryan Caldbeck and Rory Eakin. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Greene's Energy Group LLC provides integrated testing, rentals and specialty services to the oil and gas industry. It specializes in abandonment and decommissioning, offshore pipeline services, water treatment and filtration, wellhead and valve sales and services, nitrogen services, consulting services, and specialty pumping services and rentals. The company was founded in 1953 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

Kinkaid School, Inc. operates schools. It provides educational services along with social development, athletic participation, and arts and ethical behavior. The company was founded by Margaret Hunter Kinkaid in 1906 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

Nixon Capital LLC is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in Austin, Texas. The firm was founded by Ryan Nixon in 2008 as Goshawk Global Investments LLC. Nixon Capital provides investment supervisory services on a discretionary basis to separately managed accounts (SMAs) and to a pooled investment vehicle (Fund).

Turo, Inc. provides an online marketplace for car rentals. It connects people who need a car with vehicle owners. The firm provides the technology infrastructure and insurance policies. The company was founded by Shelby Clark in August 2009 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

The Friedkin Group, Inc. engages in the provision of investment services. It involves in the automotive, hospitality, entertainment, sports, and adventure industries. The company is headquartered in Houston, TX.

Ascent Automotive Group - LM LP provides vehicle dealership services. The private company is based in Houston, TX.

Texas Parks & Wildlife Commission operates community parks.

Locke Lord LLP provides legal services. The private company is based in Houston, TX.

Imanis Data, Inc. develops subscription based data availability management solutions. It integrates machine learning with unique storage optimization technology to reduce the costs associated with backup, recovery, and other data management functions across NoSQL, Hadoop and modern data warehouse products. The company was founded by Hari Mankude, Nitin Donde, Shailesh Parulekar and Srinivas Vadlamani in 2012 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Trilliant Surgical Ltd. designs, develops, manufactures, and distributes small bone podiatric implants. Its products include hammer toe fixation, foot and ankle plating systems, cannulated screw options and subtalar solutions. The company was founded by Chad Steitle, John S. Olson and David George in 2007 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

Kustomer, Inc. engages in the design and development of an omnichannel Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) customer relationship management (CRM) platform. The firm offers Kustomer platform. The company was founded by Bradley Birnbaum and Jeremy Suriel in 2015 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Part of Convatec Group Plc, Triad Life Sciences, Inc. is a biotech company based in Memphis, TN. The company is focused on developing and commercializing innovative, efficacious and affordable biomaterials for treating complex surgical and chronic wounds. Triad recently received FDA clearance to market Innovamatrix™, a next-generation extracellular matrix (ECM) wound care device. The company was founded in 2017 by Russell I. Olsen, who has been the CEO since then. Triad Life Sciences was acquired by Convatec Group Plc on March 14, 2022 for $450 million.

Imperative Entertainment LLC provides entertainment studios. The private company is based in Santa Monica, CA. The company was founded by Thomas Dan Friedkin.

Rochal Industries LLC is a company that specializes in commercializing technology innovations in natural and synthetic polymers, antimicrobials, and biological systems. The company is based in San Antonio, TX and was founded in 1986 by Ann Beal Salamone. Rochal Industries is focused on wound and skin care, and is known for creating the field of non-stinging liquid bandages in the 1990s. The company has continued to develop next generation products in that category.

Cellerate LLC manufactures wound care products. It offers CellerateRX for chronic wound care to the hospitals and surgery centers. The company is headquartered in Austin, TX.

Aviditi Capital Advisors LLC provides banking and financial services. The company is headquartered in Dallas, TX.

TrackingPoint, Inc. manufactures and develops precision guided firearms for hunters. Its hardware products include networked tracking scopes, tag buttons, guided triggers, and barrel reference systems. The company was founded by John F. McHale in February 2011 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.