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Our
Partners
Leonard H. Paton
Mr. Paton is Managing Partner of PPHB. He joined the firm in 2003 after 18 years of banking experience at Chase Securities, the investment banking unit of Chase Manhattan Bank, and Growth Capital Partners. At both Chase and GCP, Mr. Paton was a Managing Director heading a unit with worldwide responsibility for the firms' relationships with oilfield service clients. Prior to joining Chase, Mr. Paton worked eleven years with the Petroleum Equipment Group of FMC Corporation. For six of those eleven years he lived in Europe and during that time managed FMC's Wellhead Operations serving the North Sea, Middle East and African markets. His career serving the energy industry now totals 31 years. Mr. Paton serves on the Executive Board of the SMU School of Engineering. He also serves on the Executive Board of the National Ocean Industries Association. He received an MBA from the University of Texas at Austin and an undergraduate degree in Civil Engineering from Southern Methodist University.
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Joseph A. Hoepfl
Joe Hoepfl co-founded PPHB to provide financial advisory expertise to the energy industry. He
previously was a Director in CIBC World Markets’ Investment Banking
Group, providing financial advisory services to the oilfield service,
midstream and exploration & production sectors of the energy industry.
Prior to joining CIBC World Markets, Mr. Hoepfl was an Associate in
the oilfield service investment banking group at Raymond James & Associates.
He also spent several years in the energy industry, performing various
financial advisory services at Apache Corporation and Pool Energy Services
Co. Mr. Hoepfl has completed numerous equity and debt offerings, mergers
and acquisitions and financial advisory assignments. He received his
BBA in Accounting from Texas A&M University and MBA from Rice University.
He is a licensed Certified Public Accountant.
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Raymond L. Brown, Jr.
Ray Brown is a partner with PPHB. Prior to joining the firm,
Mr. Brown was a Senior Vice President with Growth Capital Partners
where for four years he managed merger and acquisition and private
equity transactions primarily focused in oilfield services and manufacturing.
Before moving into investment banking, Mr. Brown spent nine years with
Halliburton Company in various capacities and divisions. Prior to his
departure, Mr. Brown was a Director of Business Development for Halliburton
Energy Development – a group within Halliburton that provided
development capital to oil and gas companies. Mr. Brown joined Brown & Root,
a Halliburton company in 1990, entering the company in a development
program designed to fast track the training of management. During this
period he worked in each of the company's operating divisions. Afterwards,
he focused his efforts in the company's energy services businesses.
Mr. Brown obtained a degree in Civil Engineering from the University
of Mississippi in 1986 and received an MBA at Southern Methodist University
in 1990. Mr. Brown is also a registered professional engineer and a
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