Jim R. Shields

Avalon Borden Cos., Inc. is a venture capital and private equity firm specializing in acquisitions, seed, mezzanine, and public stages of financing. The company was founded on August 04, 1986 and is headquartered in Muscle Shoals, AL.

Institute for Wealth Holdings, Inc. operates a dual investment advisor platform to recruit and train associate investment advisers and investment advisory representatives. The company was founded by Dewey M. Moore, Jr. in 2008 and is headquartered in Dallas, TX.

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.

Primerica Financial Services LLC offers insurance and asset management services. Its services encompass life insurance and mutual fund investment. The company was founded in 1977 and is headquartered in Duluth, GA.

Home Builders Association of Alabama, Inc. operates as an advocate for housing industry. It serves as a corporate channel through which home builders contribute time, money, and services to local community service projects and education initiatives. Its members include builders, remodelers, developers, suppliers, manufacturers, architects, engineers, real estate brokers, lenders, attorneys, and other industry professionals. The company was founded in 1982 and is headquartered in Montgomery, AL.

Puritan Financial Cos., Inc. provides insurance services. Its services include life insurance and reinsurance, brokerage services that offer various investment products, including stocks, bonds, mutual funds, options, variable life, variable annuity, and the US treasuries and CD’s & annuities, medicare supplement & medigap insurance, college savings, and dental insurance plan. The company is headquartered in Plano, TX.