Ben joined GulfStar Group in 2024 from Texas Capital, where he worked as a Corporate Banking Analyst on the Branded Retail & Franchise Finance team and underwrote transactions for a variety of multi-unit consumer and retail clients. Prior to this, Ben completed internships with the C&I Credit Group at Texas Capital and served as an M&A Research intern at Westlake Securities. Ben earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Financial Economics from Southwestern University, where he was also a member of the student-managed investment fund and baseball team. He played professionally with the Lexington Legends.
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Industrial Services & Manufacturing
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Founded in Southeast Texas in 1943, American Packing & Gasket Holdings (APG) is a master distributor of sealing and fluid conveyance products, including O-rings, gaskets and couplings, with operations in Houston and Knoxville, Tennessee. In 1944, EVER-TITE™, now owned by APG, patented the first cam and groove coupling, which was quickly adopted by the U.S. military. Today, APG operates as a value-added master distributor, maintaining a deep inventory of more than 40,000 active SKUs supported by a diversified network of OEM suppliers and delivering core value-added capabilities, including O-ring bagging, kitting and custom gasket fabrication, to customers across a variety of end markets.
JHBDMB Holdings, Inc.
Employee Stock Ownership Trust
Industrial Services & Manufacturing
Based in Houston, BWFS is a full-service, ASME-certified fabricator of large, complex pressure vessels with in-house capabilities to engineer, draft, fabricate, stress relieve, sandblast, and coat large pressure vessels in one location with minimal outsourcing. The Company has proudly served the offshore oil and gas industry for more than 25 years and has over 14,000 vessels in use around the world.