Board of Directors

Front Row (L to R): Steven J. Shapiro; Ferrell P. McClean; William H. Joyce; Douglas L. Foshee; Robert F. Vagt; Robert W. Goldman; John L. Whitmire.Back Row (L to R): James L. Dunlap; Juan Carlos Braniff; Ronald L. Kuehn, Jr.; J. Michael Talbert; Joe B. Wyatt; Anthony W. Hall, Jr.; Thomas R. Hix.

Juan Carlos Braniff
Managing Partner, Capital I Ltd. Partners

James L. Dunlap
Business Consultant; Former Vice Chairman, President and Chief Operating Officer, Ocean Energy/United Meridian Corporation

Douglas L. Foshee
President and Chief Executive Officer, El Paso Corporation

Robert W. Goldman
Business Consultant; Former Senior Vice President, Finance and Chief Financial Officer, Conoco Inc.

Anthony W. Hall, Jr.
Chief Administrative Officer, City of Houston, Texas

Thomas R. Hix
Business Consultant; Former Senior Vice President, Finance and Chief Financial Officer, Cooper Cameron Corporation

William H. Joyce
Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, Nalco Company

Ronald L. Kuehn, Jr.
Chairman of the Board, El Paso Corporation

Ferrell P. McClean
Business Consultant; Former Managing Director and Senior Advisor, J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.’s Global Oil & Gas Group

Steven J. Shapiro
Business Consultant; Former Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Burlington Resources Inc.

J. Michael Talbert
Chairman of the Board, Transocean Inc.

Robert F. Vagt
President, Davidson College; Former President and Chief Operating Officer, Seagull Energy Corporation

John L. Whitmire
Chairman of the Board, CONSOL Energy, Inc.

Joe B. Wyatt
Chancellor Emeritus,Vanderbilt University