Joe Leimkuhler
Joe Leimkuhler is the Chief Operating Officer for Beacon Offshore Energy, located in Houston Texas and Covington Louisiana. Joe is responsible for all company offshore engineering and operations. Prior to February 2019, Joe was the Vice President of Drilling for LLOG Exploration based in Covington, Louisiana. Prior to joining LLOG in early 2012, Joe worked for Shell for 25 years where he was the Offshore Well Delivery Manager for Shell International E&P Co, (SIEP) and Shell E&P – Americas, covering all Gulf of Mexico well operations.
Joe graduated from the University of Montana in 1981 with BS degrees in Geology and Forestry. In 1987 he graduated from the University of Wyoming with a MS in Petroleum Engineering.
Joe serves on the HWCG Well Containment Group – Board of Directors, the National Ocean Industries Association (NOIA) – Board of Directors, the National Board of Directors for the American Association of Drilling Engineers (ADDE) and served as the National President of AADE from 2007 to 2009. Joe is also Chair of the HSE Committee for the NOIA. Joe is a 35-year member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers and also serves on various University Engineering Advisory boards focused on Petroleum Engineering. He was awarded Meritorious Service Awards from API and AADE in 2011. In 2017, he was awarded the AADE Lifetime Outstanding Service award. Joe and his wife, Stephanie, live in Mandeville, La. They have two grown children and seven grandchildren.
Tobin J. Eason
Tobin is married with three wonderful children. He has practiced law for over thirty-eight years and founded a publishing company that provides legal reference materials primarily for Louisiana attorneys. He has served as president of several local community boards involving zoning and flood issues and the arts, and he is an active volunteer for his church.
Serving as a volunteer at a local prison, Tobin has experienced firsthand the outcome of the erosion of the family unit in our society. Many of the prisoners he has spent time with made some difficult choices while living in extremely adverse economic and family conditions. Many of these prisoners tell the same story: no one else cared for me so why should I.
Tobin knows that every child is special. He believes children should grow up realizing that someone loves and cares about them. He established PYC with this single purpose.
Rebecca N. Wilson
Rebecca Wilson comes from a background of struggle and doubts. She lost her mom at a very young age. Her childhood was filled with witnessing domestic violence, and she is a victim of child abuse. She struggled as a teen with drugs and became a mom at a very young age. As a result, she dropped out of school and married at seventeen.
As a mom of one biological and one bonus daughter, she has a passion to reach out and help others that may find themselves in similar situations. She strives to remind children that they are not alone and that their traumas and experiences do not determine their future. She wants every child to know they are loved, adored, and above all, worthy. She knows all too well how damaging a childhood of anger and a lack of self-worth can be. She believes there is no limit to a child's future with love and support behind them.
Kenneth P. Smith
Ken is a retired Treasurer with forty years of financial management experience in the petroleum industry. He has a bachelor’s degree in accounting from the University of New Orleans.
He joined CNG Producing Company as an accountant after discharge from the US Navy in 1973. From there he worked for the Louisiana Land and Exploration Company and Energy Partners, Ltd. in various financial management positions.