Larry Jobe

U.S. Home Systems, Inc. designs, manufactures and installs home improvement products. The company product line includes kitchen cabinet refacing products, bathtub wall liners, and wall surround products for bathroom remodeling. The firm's home improvement products are marketed through direct mail, marriage mail, magazines, and newspaper inserts. The company was founded on March 18, 1980 and is headquartered in Irving, TX.

SWS Group, Inc. is a diversified financial services holding company. The company delivers investment banking, commercial banking and related financial services to individual, corporate and institutional investors, broker/dealers, governmental entities and financial intermediaries. It operates through four segments: Clearing, Retail Brokerage, Institutional Brokerage and Banking. The Clearing segment provides clearing and execution services for general securities broker/dealers, for bank affiliated firms and firms specializing in high volume trading. The Retail Brokerage segment includes retail securities products and services, insurance products and managed accounts and encompasses the activities of its employee registered representatives and independent representatives. The Institutional Brokerage segment serves institutional customers in securities lending, investment banking and public finance, fixed income sales and trading, proprietary trading and agency execution services. The Banking segment offers traditional banking products and services and focuses on small business lending and short-term funding for mortgage bankers. SWS Group was founded by Donald A. Buchholz in 1972 and is headquartered in Dallas, TX.

Independent Bank of Texas is a locally owned community bank serving the Dallas Fort Worth metroplex. IBT was formed in May of 2003 with a singular focus to serve the banking needs of their communities. The company is based in Irving, Texas.

The Eisenhower Institute promotes nonpartisan discourse and critical analysis of issues. The company was founded by Susan Eisenhower, Andrew J. Goodpastor, Eugene Rossides, John Eisenhower, David Eisenhower, Henry R. McPhee Jr. and Doug Prices in 1983 and is headquartered in Washington, DC.

Grant Thornton LLP provides accounting, tax and business consulting services. It offers advisory, business consulting, business risk, enterprise technology and innovation, transaction services, data analytics, cyber risk, and data integrity services. The firm serves the construction, real estate and hospitality, consumer and industrial products, energy, financial services, health care and life sciences, not for profit organizations, private equity, public sector, and technology industries. The company was founded in 1924 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.