Benjamin H. Bash

National Instruments Corp. engages in the design, manufacture, and sale of systems to engineers and scientists that accelerate productivity, innovation, and discovery. The firm's products include Labview, TestStand, FlexLogger, Voltage, Temperature, Software Defined Radios, Power Accessories, and Repair Services. It provides application software and modular, multifunction hardware that users combine with industry-standard computers, networks and third-party devices to create measurement, automation and embedded systems. The company was founded by Jeffrey L. Kodosky and James J. Truchard in May 1976 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

McDermott International, Inc. engages in the provision of technology, engineering, construction, and installation solutions to the energy industry. It operates through the following segments: North, Central, and South America (NCSA); Europe, Africa, Russia and Caspian (EARC); the Middle East and North Africa (MENA); Asia Pacific (APAC); and Technology. The NCSA segment designs, engineers, and constructs upstream offshore oil and gas facilities, downstream oil and gas facilities and pipelines, gas-fired power plants, LNG import and export terminals, atmospheric and refrigerated storage vessels and terminals, water storage and treatment facilities and pipe and module fabrication. The EARC segment focuses in the upstream offshore oil and gas facilities, downstream oil and gas facilities, LNG import and export terminals, and atmospheric and refrigerated storage vessels and terminals. The MENA segment comprises upstream offshore oil and gas facilities and pipelines, downstream oil and gas facilities, hydrocarbon processing facilities, atmospheric and refrigerated storage vessels and terminals, and performs pipe fabrication and manufacturing. The APAC segment involves in the upstream offshore oil and gas facilities and pipelines, refining and petrochemical facilities, hydrocarbon processing facilities, LNG import and export terminals and atmospheric and refrigerated storage vessels and terminals. The Technology segment consists technology licensor of proprietary gas processing, refining, petrochemical and coal gasification technologies as well as a supplier of proprietary catalysts, equipment and related engineering services. The company was founded in 1923 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.