Les W. Childress

Mr. Childress has more than 21 years experience in providing investment opinions on the value of publicly traded securities.
His experience includes, though is not limited to, analyzing energy companies, financials, and special situations.
He was an analyst for Schneider, Bernet & Hickman in Dallas, Texas, and went on to cover oil & gas stocks for Composite Mutual Funds and Murphy Favre Securities in Seattle.
He was a partner and director of equity research at Harper McLean & Company, also in Seattle.
Mr. Childress holds a B.S.
degree from the University of Oregon and an MBA from Cox School of Business of Southern Methodist University.
He is a member of the Seattle Society of Financial Analysts and the Association for Investment Management and Research, and is frequently and widely quoted in major newspapers, radio, television and business publications.