John Frederick Bright

Bright Investments LLC is the asset management subsidiary of Bright Holdings LLC headquartered in Auburn, Alabama. The firm was founded in 2015 by Thomas Kucera and John Bright. Bright Investments provides portfolio management and financial consulting services to individuals and institutional clients.

Laitram LLC manufactures automated shrimp processing, shellfish cooking, and chilling equipment. Its operating divisions include Intralox, Laitram Machinery, Lapeyre Stair, and Laitram Machine Shop. The firm’s corporate support group provides professional services to the operating divisions, including information technology services, human resources, legal counsel, accounting, safety, and facilities and maintenance. The company was founded by James Martial Lapeyre in 1946 and is headquartered in Harahan, LA.

Founded in 1987, Johnson Rice & Co. LLC is an institutional research and brokerage firm located in New Orleans, Louisiana. In 1991, the firm began offering investment banking services. Johnson Rice & Co. focuses primarily on the energy and specialty retail sectors

Founded in 1969, Morgan Keegan & Co., Inc. is a full-service regional investment firm and broker/dealer headquartered in Memphis, Tennessee. The firm is a subsidiary of Regions Financial Corp. (NYSE: RF). They offer equity-oriented investment banking functions, securities brokerage, trust services, asset management, research, trading and institutional sales

W.H. Reaves & Co., Inc. (doing business as Reaves Asset Management) is a SEC-registered investment advisor and mutual fund manager headquartered in Jersey City, New Jersey. The firm was founded by William H. Reaves in 1961. Reaves Asset Management provides investment management services to endowments, foundations, insurance companies, electric public utility, nuclear decommissioning trust funds, other institutions, defined benefit and contribution plans, high-net-worth and other individuals.

Avondale Partners LLC is an independent broker/dealer headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee with additional offices across the US. The firm was founded by Robert Shepherd and Philip Krebs in 2001. Avondale Partners provides financial advisory services as well as equity and fixed income underwriting and private placement services to public and private companies throughout the US, Canada and Europe. They focus on middle-market companies in the healthcare sector.