Karan Chaudhary

First Reserve Management LP (First Reserve) is a private equity firm founded in 1983. The firm is headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut.

The Teacher Retirement System of Texas (TRS) is a state-owned pension fund manager headquartered in Austin, Texas. The firm was founded by the Texas Legislature in 1937 to provide service and disability retirement benefits to teachers and administrators of the public school systems of Texas, which include institutions of higher education. In 1949, legislation expanded membership eligibility to include all employees of public education institutions. In 1985, TRS was assigned responsibility to administer health insurance program for public school retirees. The firm invests funds under its stewardship and delivers benefits to members as authorized by the Texas Legislature.

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLC provides assurance, tax and advisory services. Its services include audit and assurance, consulting, deals, human resources, legal, tax, and family business. The firm also offers accountability, risk management, structuring, mergers and acquisitions, and performance and process improvement. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Buffalo, NY.

Natural Gas Partners LLC (NGP) is a private equity firm, a subsidiary of NGP Energy Capital Management, LLC founded in 1988 by David Russell Albin and Kenneth Alfredo Hersh. The firm is headquartered in Dallas, Texas.

Northwestern University is a private institution founded in 1851 to serve the Northwest Territory, an area that now includes the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and parts of Minnesota. Northwestern has three campuses

Jefferies LLC is a global investment bank and institutional securities firm headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1962 and is a subsidiary of Jefferies Group LLC, ultimately held by Jefferies Financial Group, Inc. (NYSE: JEF). Jefferies provides corporate clients with research and execution services in equity, fixed income, and foreign exchange markets, as well as a full range of investment banking services such as underwriting, mergers and acquisitions, restructuring and recapitalization, and other advisory services, with all businesses operating in the Americas, Europe and Asia.

Barclays Capital, Inc. is a registered broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1997 and is a subsidiary of Barclays Group US, Inc., ultimately owned by Barclays plc (LON: BARC) in Great Britain. Barclays Capital provides large corporate, government and institutional clients a full spectrum of prime brokerage services which includes equities and fixed income financing, OTC Clearing, Futures and Foreign Exchange Prime Brokerage and access to industry insights and analytics from their Strategic Consulting team.

Founded in 1958, Merrill Lynch Piece Fenner & Smith, Inc. is an SEC registered broker/dealer located in New York City. The firm is a subsidiary of BAC North America Holding Co. and their ultimate parent is Bank of America Corp. (NYSE BAC).

The Boston Consulting Group, Inc. engages in the provision of management consulting services. It specializes in automotive and mobility; biopharmaceuticals; consumer products; education; oil and gas; power and utilities; engineered products and infrastructure; financial institutions; and health care payers, providers, and services. It offers big data and advanced analytics; change management; client learning and enablement; and corporate development and financial services. The company was founded by Bruce Doolin Henderson in 1963 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

JPMorgan Securities LLC (JPMS) is a securities brokerage firm headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1985 and is a subsidiary of JPMorgan Broker-Dealer Holdings, Inc., ultimately held by JPMorgan Chase & Co., Inc. (NYSE: JPM). JPMS provides research on fixed income, credit, derivatives, emerging markets, foreign exchange, structured finance, technical analysis and bond indices. Their equity analysts cover equities throughout North America, EMEA, Asia/Pacific and the emerging markets. The firm's fixed income team formulates trading and portfolio recommendations for investors in global bonds and other fixed-income markets based on valuations, analytics and market dynamics.

Debut Capital LLC (Debut Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 2019 by Pilar Johnson and Bobak Emamian. The firm is headquartered in Brooklyn, New York.

GP Bullhound Asset Management Ltd (GP Bullhound) is a venture capital subsidiary of GP Bullhound Ltd founded in 1999 by Manish Madhvani, Christian Lagerling, Per Christer Roman and Hugh Alastair Campbell. The firm is headquartered in London, United Kingdom.

Mill Road Capital Management LLC (Mountain Capital) is an Private Equity firm founded in 2004 by Samuel Woong Oh. The firm is headquartered in Greenwich.

Tourmaline Labs, Inc. develops artificial intelligence technology platform. It offers TL Trip, TL Behaviour, TL Insight, and TL KIT and open API solutions. The firm serves transportation, insurance, OEM and general mobility industries. The company was founded by Lukas Kuhn and Sven Beerweiler in 2013 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Expedi, Inc. engages in provision of procurement solutions to drilling operations. It products includes mud pumps, handling tools, centrifugal pumps, shale shakers, gauges and valves, rope, soap, dope, tools, and accessories. The company was founded by Lawrence Patrick Neal and Timothy Neal in 2017 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

Machfu Inc. develops and maintains applications and infrastructure in industrial Internet of things enabling data, analytics, and visualization on mobile tablets and computers. Its products include MACHGateway and MACHData. The firm’s solutions include grid automation and digital oil field. The company was founded by Prakash Chakravarthi and John Geiger in 2015 and is headquartered in Germantown, MD.

CSL Ventures LLC (CSL Ventures LLC) is a venture capital firm, a subsidiary of CSL Capital Management LLC founded in 2019. The firm is headquartered in Houston, Texas.

Infrastructure Networks, Inc. engages in the provision of wireless infrastructure and communications solutions. It offers virtual private radio networks, 4G LTE cellular technology, industrial Internet of things, bulk bandwidth, subscription based transit pipe services, FastL2 - transparent ethernet circuits over any IP network, CloudCore LTE service management, and broadband router solutions. The company was founded by Jack M. Fields Jr., Stanley R. Hughey, and Kori Kalich-Ugalde in March 2011 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

Advantek Waste Management Services LLC provides waste management services. It services include Treatment and Recycling, Disposal and Consulting and Software Licensing. The company was founded by Ahmed Abou-Sayed on August 15, 2014 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

Biota Technology, Inc. applies deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) sequencing and data science to explore the earth's subsurface. It offers DNA data services for production profiling, sweet spot identification, and reservoir connectivity. The company was founded by Ajay Kshatriya and Rob Knight in 2013 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Wireless Seismic, Inc. provides scalable wireless seismic recording systems. Its technology, RT System 2, immediately transmits data to a central location, the RT System 2 eliminates longstanding risk of data loss and reshooting due to unit theft, damage or malfunction, and the issues related to data collection and transcription. The company was founded by Douglas B. Crice, Roy Kligfield, and Mihai Beffa in 2006 and is headquartered in Sugar Land, TX.

Rice Alliance for Technology & Entrepreneurship is a nationally recognized initiative devoted to supporting technology commercialization, entrepreneurship education, and the launch of technology companies. The private company is based in Houston, TX. The company connects startups to capital, networks, and success. Rice Alliance has supported over 3,165 companies in its 20+ years of startup support, raising $23.60 billion in funding. The company hosts both large-scale and more intimate events to bring together investors, corporations, startups, and technology ventures for deal-flow, networking, and discussions. Rice Alliance has subsidiaries in the United States.

Trialspark, Inc(Trialspark) is a Private Equity firm founded in 2013 by Benjamine Liu, Kit Dobyns, and Linhao Zhang. The firm is headquartered in New York, US.

CSL Capital Management LLC (CSL Capital) is a private equity firm founded by Charles Leykum in 2008. The firm is headquartered in Houston, Texas.

RedBird Capital Partners Management LLC (RedBird Capital Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 2013 by Gerry Cardinale. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Corebridge Institutional Investments (US) LLC (CII) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in New York City. They are an indirect subsidiary of Corebridge Financial, Inc. (Corebridge) (NYSE: CRBG). The firm was formerly known as AIG Asset Management (US) LLC and changed their name to Corebridge Institutional Investments (US) LLC in 2023 as part of Corebridge’s continued separation from American International Group, Inc. CII provide investment management services to Corebridge, its affiliates, and unaffiliated institutional clients. The firm also manages investment portfolios of private funds and other pooled investment vehicles in which affiliated and unaffiliated parties are investors. CII also serves as a sub-adviser to affiliated investment managers, in the management of their institutional affiliate client accounts.