Bailey Baynham is a certified public accountant and partner at Cole, Evans & Peterson, which has been serving the local business community since 1957.

Bailey earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from Louisiana State University in Shreveport in 1985 and joined Cole, Evans & Peterson upon graduation.  He became a partner in the firm in 1994.  Bailey works in various areas of tax and accounting with an emphasis on income taxation of estates and trusts.

Bailey has served on the boards of the Shreveport Chapter of the Society of Louisiana Certified Public Accountants, the Tax and Estate Planning Council of Shreveport, and other local community organizations.

Bailey is married to wife, Lori, who is also a graduate of LSUS and who owns an advertising business in Shreveport.  They have two sons, one attending Byrd High School and the other attending Arthur Circle Elementary School.

Kenneth (Kenny) Beauvais is President and founder of Hardware Distribution Warehouses, Inc. (HDW).  He formed an Employee Stock Ownership Plan that purchased the company in 1994.  The company employs 170 people with 76 living in the immediate Shreveport area.  HDW has distribution facilities in Shreveport and Greenwood, Mississippi, serving over 1200 retail lumberyards, home centers and other specialty building related businesses in eight states across the Mid South.  HWD is the largest 100% employee owned company in Louisiana.

Kenny serves as Chairman of Distribution America, a cooperative of wholesale distributors.  He is currently the District Ministry Chairman for the Shreveport District of the Louisiana Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church.  He has also held many other positions within the District and in his local church, Broadmoor United Methodist Church.  He also serves on the Editorial Board for The Shreveport Times and has previously served on the Advisory Board of LSU in Shreveport and on the board of the Shreveport Symphony.  He is a graduate of Leadership Shreveport-Bossier.

Kenny is a native of Shrevport and is married to the former Nancy Hurley.  They have three children, one in college and two in high school.

W. Jeffrey Burford is Vice Chairman of Fibrebond Corporation with 40 years of experience and responsibility with some well known companies such as Arthur Andersen & Co., Occidental Petroleum, The Coastal Corporation, St. Lukes Episcopal Hospital/Texas Children Hospital/Texas Heart Institute, Forest Oil Corporation and Abell Corporation.

Mr. Burford is a member of the Board of Directors of Fibrebond Corporation, Abell Corporation, Oil Insurance Limited, Forest Management, Inc., Coastal Employee Credit Unit and is a Trustee for Forest Oil Pension Fund.  His committee memberships include:  Chairman, Ethics Committee; Chairman, Political Action Committee; Charitable Contributions Committee; Compensation Committee; and Thrift Plan Administrative Committee.  His professional affiliations include:  Who’s Who in America, American Petroleum Institute, American Management Association, and Rocky Mountain Natural Gas Association.

He has an M.S. in Accounting/Finance & Economics and a B.S. in Accounting from Louisiana State University.

He worked for Price Waterhouse from 1979 to 1981 when he joined Heard, McElroy & Vestal. He was elected partner at HM&V in 1984, and presently serves as managing partner. He leads Business Valuation Consultants, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of HM&V. His practice focus in Business Valuation, Litigation Services, Taxation-Corporations, Partnerships and Real Estate.

He holds Accredited Business Valuation and Certified Valuation Analyst designations. He is Past President, Louisiana Chapter National Association of Certified Valuation Analysts (NACVA) and a member of America Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) and Louisiana Society of CPAs (LCPA). He is also former president, Shreveport chapter of LCPA and a member of numerous civic and charitable organizations.

In his role with the Greater Shreveport Chamber of Commerce's regional economic development program, Mr. Foreman leads a 7-member Economic Development department. The team works on business attraction/expansion, workforce development and government procurement activities in a multi-parish service area of Northwest Louisiana. Mr. Foreman joined the Greater Shreveport Chamber of Commerce in mid 2004.

With over 15 years of economic development related experience, he has worked with local and regional economic development organizations, a leading national corporate site selection firm and residential/retail real estate developers. Mr. Foreman is fortunate to have helped lead three different organizations cited by Site Selection magazine as one of the nation's top ten economic development groups. He also spent three years with Korn/Ferry International, a large global executive search firm, handling senior level searches for major non-profit, academic and healthcare related clients across the nation.

Mr. Foreman holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Franklin Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania and an MBA with distinction from the Babcock Graduate School of Management at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, NC. He and his wife, Julie, have four children and live in Shreveport.

Kathy was raised in Shreveport, LA.  She is a graduate of Louisiana State University in Shreveport, with a B.S. degree in accounting and is a licensed Certified Public Accountant. 

She started her career as an intern in the tax department of KPMG, LLP in 1994 and was a Senior Tax Manager specializing in oil and gas taxation before she joined Caddo Management, Inc. in 2005.  While at KPMG, Kathy had clients in all industries, including oil and gas, manufacturing, printing, and horse racing.  She was active in recruiting college students from various local campuses and training new hires. 

Kathy is past chair of the LSU-Shreveport College of Business Board of Visitors, past President of the Shreveport Chapter of the Louisiana Society of CPAs, past Treasurer of the Krewe de les Femmes Mystique, and has worked as a Financial Advisor for the Zeta Tau Alpha Fraternity chapters at LSU-Shreveport and Centenary College.  She is also a member of numerous civic and charitable organizations.

Matt was born and raised in Bossier City, LA.  He graduated from Airline HIgh School and proceeded to LSUS for a B.A. in management and an MBA.

He started his career with Cintas Corporation in November of 2003 as an intern.  After a few months, he moved to a management trainee position which consisted of various projects and assignments in each of four key business units (sales, service, production, office).  In December of 2005, he completed the management trainee program, and now he works as a uniform sales representative, where his main duty is to earn new business by cold calling and presenting Cintas to potential customers.

For hobbies, he likes to travel and attend LSU sporting events.  When he is not doing that, you can probably find him playing sports, watching sports, or playing on the computer.

Stacy Williams is President and COO of C. W. Lane Company, Inc., where he is responsible for security investments, land acquisitions, oil and gas investments and farming operations.  Prior to joining C. W. Lane, he was Vice-President Commercial Real Estate Relationship Manager for Bank One Louisiana, NA.

Mr. Williams is Past President and Director of the Rotary Club of East Shreveport and was Past Treasurer for two years.  He also served as Past President and is current Director of the Downtown Shreveport Development Corporation, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Noel United Methodist Church, President of Riverside Swim Club, Member of the State Fair Association, participant in the Boy Scout fund drive and member of United Way Budget Review Committee.

Mr. Williams was a member of Leadership Shreveport, 1985, and is a member of St. Joseph Catholic Church.  He is also a member of the Shreveport Bossier Board of Realtors, East Ridge Country Club and the University Club of Shreveport.

He received a Bachelor of Science degree in Agricultural Business from Northwestern State University and received a Certificate from the School of Banking of the South.  He also served on active duty in the United States Navy.

Pat Yates is the current Chair of the Board of Visitors.  He grew up in Shreveport and graduated from Byrd High School and Baylor University with a B.S. in Math and an MBA in Finance.

He completed a 30-year career with Bank One, retiring in January 2004.  He began a new career with Iberia Bank in February.

Pat has been involved in numerous civic organizations.  Currently, he is serving on the board of Broadmoor Baptist Church and is also participating as a mentor for the Shreveport Bossier Community Renewal Adult GED program.  He has been President of the United Way, a member of the Board of Directors of the Downtown Rotary and has recently served as Chairman of the Board of Volunteers of America of North Louisiana.

Pat is married to Judy, and they have four children—Brandon, Dorothy, John and Thomas and one grandson.