An organization or business is only as good as its management – poor leadership can drive a stellar company into the ground while efficient leadership can breathe life into dead structure. Fort Worth, Texas-based Galenfeha, an engineering, manufacturing and product development company, is led by an experienced team of professionals who knows what it takes to run a successful corporation.
President and CEO Lucien Marioneaux Jr., in addition to owning and operating Marioneaux Law Firm, a private general law practice specializing in estate planning and general corporate representation including transactions and litigation, also holds various real estate and oil and gas positions along with a variety of private equity holdings in business and industry throughout Texas and Louisiana.
This hands-on experience is aptly suited to guide Galenfeha’s contractual engineering services and proprietary products through mainstream oil and gas production sites and into the hands of oil and gas producers.
Marioneaux has enjoyed a 15-year prominent legal career throughout the State of Louisiana and previously held the position of senior director of Security, Risk Management and Regulatory Compliance for L’Auberge du Lac Casino Resort for which he directed all operations within those departments. Marioneaux was responsible for all aspects of the property regulatory compliance program for the State of Louisiana, the U.S. Department of the Treasury, Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (Title 31) and Sarbanes-Oxley. He directed all general liability and workers compensation matters and worked closely with outside and corporate legal counsel to ensure efficient and effective resolution. In 2008, he was part of the team which implemented a major property expansion at L’Auberge. The $67 million project included a nine-story hotel tower with 250 rooms.
Marioneaux is active in the Louisiana Bar Association, the Shreveport Bar Association, the DeSoto Parish Bar Association, the Louisiana Casino Association and the Louisiana District Attorney’s Association where he has the unique experience of working directly with local, state and federal governmental and elected officials on issues important to these various interests. He has served as co-chair of the Southwest Chamber of Commerce’s Governmental Affairs Committee and was a visiting professor for McNeese State University where he taught The Legal Environment of Business.
Galenfeha’s chairman of the board James Ketner also has an impressive resume of relevant experience that supports the company’s partnerships with global corporations and provides a high caliber of in-house consulting. With more than 26 years of experience as the director and chief executive officer of public and non-public corporations, Ketner has spent most of his professional career as a contract consulting engineer for Fortune 500 multinational companies.
He has a successful track record of directing public companies, securities law, domestic and international regulatory agencies, operations streamlining, maximizing productivity, and directing companies to achieve record profitability through increased efficiency and productivity with state of the art technology. Ketner is a resourceful decision-maker combining strong leadership and organizational skills with the ability to direct programs throughout the design and manufacturing processes.
Ketner started his career as a numeric control programmer at General Dynamics, and in 1991 embarked on his own as a consultant. Since then, he has racked up an impressive list of heavy-hitting clients for which he has done contractual consulting work, including General Dynamics, Pratt and Whitney, Boeing, Lockheed, Daimler Chrysler, Fiat, Honda Research and Development, Rockwell, Sikorsky Aircraft, Embraer SP, and Dassault/Falcon Jet.
Ketner has traveled extensively and is well versed in conducting business in North and South America. Ketner founded Kelyniam Global, Inc. where he was responsible for taking the company public, receiving FDA 510(k) approval, and commercially launching the products.
Marioneaux and Ketner are backed by a diverse and equally as experienced team of directors fully committed to the success of Galenfeha. Together, these individuals will lead the company through its anticipated vigorous growth in overall product sales for 2015, driven by an increased market acceptance of its products, embedded battery technology within its chemical injection pumps, and the introduction of its technology outside the petroleum industry.
With combined decades of experience, Galenfeha’s key management and directors enable the company to offer the most dynamic maneuverability when it comes to product development, engineering and manufacturing.
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