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.

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.

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.

Dr. Linda Martin is currently Vice-Chair of the Business Advisory Board.  She has over 20 years of experience in university teaching and corporate consulting. She is a Senior Strategist for the communication consultancy Outside Eyes, with a nation-wide client list of celebrities, athletes and Fortune 500 CEOs. She is currently serving on the Board of Advisors for the LSUS College of Business and on the Board of Directors for the Bossier City Chamber of Commerce. She holds a PhD in Public Relations/Communication from University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and a Masters in Public Communication from University of Denver. Her undergraduate degree is in Speech from LSUS. She has served on the adjunct faculty for the College of Business since 2002 teaching MKT 301, 490 and BADM 790.

Kevin McCotter is Director of Corporate Development – Louisiana for Chesapeake Energy Corporation.  He is responsible for managing the external affairs environment in which Chesapeake operates in the Haynesville Shale Play.  By developing integrated solutions for Chesapeake’s operating units, local and state government, royalty owners, news media, community activists and land owner groups, the Corporate Development team positions all stakeholders in the Play area for maximum success in the exploration and production of natural gas. 

Throughout his working career, McCotter has been active in statewide government and civic endeavors.  McCotter has served on the Louisiana Workforce Development Commission and the boards and executive committees of the Greater Shreveport Chamber of Commerce, the Bossier Chamber of Commerce and Biomedical Research Foundation.   He has chaired the United Way of Northwest Louisiana, the Governor's School-To-Work Design Team, Red River Partners @ Work School-To-Work Partnership and served as President of the Louisiana Industrial Development Executives Association.  In 2001, he chaired the City of Shreveport Bond Issue Committee which was successful in gaining voter approval for $70 million infrastructure bond issue by an overwhelming margin.  McCotter has received numerous honors including being named by the Times as a "Leader of the New Century" in 2001, the National Corporate Leadership Award by Jobs For America's Graduates, the 2004 Diversity Award from the Shreveport Branch of the NAACP and the Military Affairs Council Volunteer of the Year Award in 2007.

McCotter currently serves on the Boards of Directors of Sci-Port Discovery Center, the Bossier Economic Development Foundation and the Military Affairs Council.  Since 2000, he has served as president of Campus Facilities, Inc., a non-profit corporation that built the new $55 million campus for Bossier Parish Community College.  In 2003, McCotter was elected to the Board of Directors of Citizens National Bank, a locally owned $300 million bank with six offices in Bossier City and Shreveport.  He was recently elected to the Board of Directors of Blue Cross Blue Shield Louisiana, a health care insurance organization serving over 1.4 million Louisianians. 

Mr. McCotter is a graduate of Tulane University and holds a Master’s Degree in Business Administration from Tulane’s A. B. Freeman School of Business. 

Stephen G. Roberts is a 1970 graduate of Louisiana State University, a Certified Public Accountant and the former President and current Vice-President of Roberts, Cherry and Company, A Corporation of Certified Public Accountants, with offices in Shreveport, Louisiana and Jackson, Mississippi. He also serves as Vice- President of RCG Network Engineering, Inc, a full-service computer company.  He is a licensed securities broker and former Certified Valuation Analyst.

Stephen Roberts is a former Chairman of the Board of CPAmerica, an association of over 75 mid-level CPA firms located throughout the United States.  He is a nationally recognized speaker in the Accounting industry having served as the keynote presenter of the AICPA national conference on several occasions.

Roberts, Chief Financial Officer of Film Production Capital, LLC (FPC) was a pioneer in the film tax credit brokerage business.  FPC was the first company in the nation to monetize transferable state income tax credits issued to production companies.  Since purchasing the credits issued to the films "Ray" and "Runaway Jury" in 2003, FPC has traded over 150 million state film tax credits.  The company currently operates in Louisiana, Arizona, Georgia, Massachusetts, Michigan, Connecticut, and Rhode Island.

The 150 million credits brokered by FPC represent 30% of all credits issued by the State of Louisiana since inception of its incentive program.  FPC has provided financing on 16 Feature Films, 21 Made for TV Movies, and numerous documentaries and videos.  Feature Films included Premonition, Factory Girl, Roadhouse II, Bug, and Mr. Brooks.

Mr. Roberts and his family live in Shreveport, Louisiana, a major location for the film and television industry.

Stacy Williams is currently Chair of the CBA Business Advisory Board.  He 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 immediate past 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.