Karen D. Taylor

The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) is the world's largest HR association with almost 325,000 members. The non-profit company is based in Alexandria, VA and has subsidiaries in India and the United States. The company aims to create better workplaces and address critical issues affecting society that impact work. Johnny C. Taylor has been the CEO of the company since 2017.

RRI Energy, Inc. provides electricity and energy-related products to more than 1.9 million retail and wholesale customers in Texas and in the Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Maryland Interconnection. It operates through two segments: Retail Energy and Wholesale Energy. The Retail Energy division provides electricity and energy services to retail electricity customers, including residential and small business customers and commercial, industrial, governmental and institutional customers. The Wholesale Energy segment provides electricity and energy services in the wholesale energy markets in the United States. It was founded 2000 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

Reliant Energy, Inc. generates and markets electricity. It has more than 14,000 megawatts of power generation capacity at 36 coal, oil and gas-fired plants across the United States. Reliant Energy is headquartered in Houston, TX.

EnerVest Ltd. (EnerVest) is a private equity firm founded in 1992 by John B. Walker and Jon Rex Jones. The firm is headquartered in Houston, Texas.