William H. Walker

Cleco Corporate Holdings LLC is a regional energy holding company that conducts its business operations through its subsidiaries, Cleco Power LLC and Cleco Cajun LLC. The company is based in Pineville, LA and has subsidiaries in the United States. Cleco Power is a regulated electric public utility company that owns 10 generating assets with a total nameplate capacity of 3,360 MWs and serves approximately 288,000 customers in Louisiana through its retail business and supplies wholesale power. Cleco Cajun is an unregulated utility company that owns eight generating assets with a total nameplate capacity of 3,555 MWs, with contracts serving nine Louisiana cooperatives, three wholesale municipal customers, and one electric utility. The company was founded in 1934 by Floyd Wilson Woodcock. William G. Fontenot has been the CEO of the company since 2018.

Evergreen Energy, Inc. operates as a business intelligence and environmental solutions company. It engages to the development of accurate and reliable technologies. Its products are focused on helping customers manage the costs and operational issues. The company was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in Denver, CO.

Cleco Power LLC engages in generation, transmission, distribution and sale of electricity. The company was founded on January 2, 1935 and is headquartered in Pineville, LA.

Founded in 1946, Howard Weil, Inc. is a broker/dealer located in New Orleans, Louisiana with an additional office in Houston, Texas. On November 1, 2012, Howard Weil became part of Scotia Capital (USA), Inc., a US registered broker-dealer and a member of FINRA and the NYSE. Scotia Capital (USA), Inc. is owned by the Bank of Nova Scotia (NYSE: BNA), aka Scotiabank. The firm is an energy investment boutique that provides equity research, institutional sales and trading, and investment banking services. They cover companies in the following energy sectors: major integrated oil, exploration and production, oilfield service, gas and power, independent refiners and coal producers. Howard Weil's sales force deals only with energy securities and covers institutional accounts in the US and internationally. Their trading expertise spans all sectors of the energy industry and includes small-, mid- and large-cap companies.