Robert W. Beard

Cendian Corp. was a logistics business process outsourcer for the chemical industry. The company provided web based applications that facilitate truckload and lessthan truckload distribution networks. It parent company Eastman Chemical closed it in 2005.

Comdata TN, Inc. provides electronic payment services. The firm issues and processes fleet, corporate payment, healthcare, virtual card, and prepaid solutions for customers in construction, fleet, healthcare, and retail and hospitality industries globally. Its solutions include virtual payment solutions for adoption of electronic funds transfer in healthcare, payment application solutions for the construction industry to streamline expenses, pay employees, manage fleet and fuel spend, and order permits and pilot cars. The company was founded by Curtiss W. Harter, Jr. in 1969 and is headquartered in Brentwood, TN.

First Data Resources LLC provides financial services. Its services include card embossing, card issuance, cardholder correspondence, billing, statements, transaction authorization, risk management, and other financial services. First Data Resources is headquartered in Omaha, NE.

SMF Energy Corp. is a provider of petroleum product distribution services, transportation logistics and emergency response services to the trucking, manufacturing, construction, shipping, utility, energy, chemical, and telecommunication and government services industries. It is a supplier of specialized transportation and distribution services for petroleum products and chemicals. The company also provides commercial mobile and bulk fueling, the packaging, distribution and sale of lubricants, integrated out-sourced fuel management, transportation logistics and emergency response services. Its specialized equipment fleet distributes diesel fuel and gasoline to customer locations on a regularly scheduled or as needed basis, refueling vehicles and equipment, re-supplying bulk storage tanks, and providing fuel for emergency power generation systems. SMF Energy also offers emergency services and fuel delivery services in response to natural disasters and other widespread emergency conditions, including hurricanes, tropical storms, ice and snow storms, forest fires and earthquakes. It was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Fort Lauderdale, FL.