Robert M. Snell

Forum was founded when eleven companies came together to do a better job for the drilling and production industries. They design, manufacture and supply hardworking tools to serve and support these hardworking people including major onshore and offshore drilling contractors, orilling equipment rental companies, oilfield service companies, and assemblers of drilling and well servicing equipment. Flow control products include expendable fluid end-components for mud and centrifugal pumps, valves, chokes, kill manifolds and pressure control equipment. In addition, the company offers tubular handling products, including hydraulic catwalks, rotary and drill collar slips, safety clamps, casing slips and scrapers, elevators, stabbing guides, mouse hole tools, iron roughnecks, and tongs; and well invented products, including high pressure blowout preventers, lubricators, wellhead adapter flanges, and accessories.

Spinnaker Exploration Co. was an independent energy company engaged in the exploration, development and production of natural gas and oil in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico. It was headquartered in Houston, TX.

Headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, Banc of America Securities (BAS) is the investment banking subsidiary of Bank of America Corp (NYSE: BAC). The firm provides both the domestic and international equity and investment banking markets, and pursues a strategy pioneered by Citigroup that combines corporate lending with investment banking advice and services. They provide high-yield debt underwriting and leveraged finance, in addition to industry coverage groups such as healthcare, media and telecom, financial institutions, real estate and gaming. BAS also does a significant amount of work for Financial Sponsors, or private equity firms, often financing leveraged transactions. Following the strategy of Goldman Sachs, the firm lacks a standalone mergers and acquisitions department, instead employing mergers and acquisitions senior bankers throughout the industry coverage groups. The firm is registered as a broker/dealer with the SEC, is a member of the NYSE, and the NASD. The use of Banc in the BAS's name is indicative of the fact that the company is not a bank, and their deposits and other holdings are not insured by the FDIC.

Common Resources LLC explores and produces oil and gas in the onshore basins of the Gulf Coast, West Texas and Mid-Continent regions. The company was founded by Robert M. Snell and Elliott Pew in 2007 and is headquartered in The Woodlands, TX.