The Tindall Group of Companies

The TGC Companies are a multi-state conglomerate of strategic investment entities and operating companies.  This is the result of 30 plus years of collaboration and co-lineal development of diverse business entities which are independently founded and owned.  Each of these entities shares a common investment vision and strategy.  TGC acts as lead investor in the acquisition of real estate and early stage operating companies, in cooperation with the principals of strategic co-investors, including the owners of The Texas-based Aurora Companies and the Alaska Packaging Group.

TGC Consists of: 
  • ​Real estate land acquisition, including commercial and residential development
  • Long-term investment and management of income producing commercial office buildings
  • Oil field supply and investment
  • Equipment leasing and sales within the seafood industry
  • Seafood Processing in Prince William Sound
  • ​Transportation & Logistics

Real Estate

Subdivision
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Development
From the mid-nineties, through the present,  The TGC Companies (through predecessor Tindall Group, LLC) have been involved in residential development and construction through debt or equity financings. Since 2010, TGC Washington Holdings, LLC has been an equity partner with a prominent Puget Sound builder/developer in the acquisition and development of usually distressed properties, completion of necessary improvements, followed by constructing single-family homes.  Beginning  in 2014, TGC Texas Holdings, LLC has pursued a similar business strategy in the greater Austin area of Texas.
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TGC Holdings, LLC
TGC Texas Holdings, LLC
TGC Washington Holdings, LLC
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  Commercial Income
​The TGC Companies, with members of strategic co-investor, The Aurora Companies,  formed Red Hawk Properties, LLC and subsequently Black Hawk Properties, LLC , to pursue acquisitions of office buildings with immediate cash flow, primarily in the Westchase area of Houston, Texas.  Black Hawk is managed by Corey Management South, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Corey Management, LLC, manager of Red Hawk.  Corey Management is co-owned and managed  by John H. Tindall and G.  Scott Pfoff. 
Black Hawk Properties, LLC
​CJT Properties, LLC
​Corey Management, LLC
​Corey Management South, LLC
​​Red Hawk Properties, LLC
TGC Holdings, LLC
​WYAK, LLC
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Transportation & Logistics

The TGC Companies have recently acquired trucking companies in Alaska (including On Demand Trucking, LLC) and Washington, through TGC Transportation, LLC (“TGCTrans”), in a joint venture with Idaho and Canadian-based FMI-EPS, LLC ("FMI").   www.fmi-eps.com/

TGCTrans is a national asset-based logistics company and freight consolidator  that can provide service anywhere in the country.  In the lower 48, TGC has transload facilities (warehouses and yards) at the Port of Tacoma and in Burlington, Washington. TGC hauls from the ports of Seattle and Everett. TGCTrans utilizes FMI warehouses and yards in Post Falls and Jerome, Idaho. 
FMI operates a national fleet of semi-tractor trailers to transport EPS to meet the multi-state demand for its products.  (“EPS”is a high-end specialty product generally known as expanded polystyrene insulation in a closed cell, lightweight and resilient rigid insulation used in construction insulation and industrial applications.) With TGCTrans, FMI completes its coverage of all 50 states, while allowing TGCTrans to concentrate on its core businesses of seafood shipping, movement of construction materials and consolidation out of the lower 48 to Alaska.
 
In Alaska, TGCTrans maintains a fleet of Peninsula based trucks and trailers, and a satellite headquarters from the original On Demand Trucking yard in Homer.  It is headquartered in Anchorage and operates the bulk of its Alaska-based tractors and trailers from its Ship Creek area yard and warehouse.   ​

Venture Lending Group

CTT Management Company, LLC is an Alaska limited liability company, and agent and manager for Venture Lending Groups.  CTT and VLG are part of the TGC Companies.

The Venture Lending Groups (“VLG”) are a series of single-purpose loan participation groups, funded by a pool of established pension and retirement plans, corporate entities seeking alternative assets, and high net worth individuals.  The VLGs primarily provide mezzanine finance to early stage companies, but also bridge lending to later stage companies seeking private financing for acquisitions or expansion.  CTT Management Company, LLC, a TGC company, acts as agent and manager for each of the VLGs. 

​Tindall Group Consulting (TGC), LLC advises third-party entities involved in capital raising activities and corporate venture capital, with an emphasis on entity structure. 
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Venture Lending Group I-VI
​Tindall Group Consulting (TGC), LLC
​CJT Investments, LLC
​CTT Management Company, LLC​
​​TGC Holdings, LLC
Pension and retirement funds
Various high networth individuals
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Oil Field Supply & Investment

​The TGC Companies, through  Texas based affiliates, Cohiba Oilfield Services, LLC and  Punch Oilfield Services, LLC, provide intermediate bulk containers and tensile steel drilling rig slings on the North Slope of Alaska and in the Gulf of Mexico. Parallax Partners, LLC, a joint venture between Tindall Group Consulting, LLC and Alaska Packaging Lumber, LLC, supplies insulated seafood totes, and heavy equipment to the seafood processing industry throughout the State of Alaska.  

Cohiba Oilfield Services, LLC
​Punch Oilfield Services, LLC
​Parallax Partners, LLC
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Seafood Processing

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Through wholly owned TGC subsidiary Parallax Seafoods, LLC, TGC has acquired the former Great Pacific Seafoods processing plant in Whittier Alaska.  This plant has the capacity to process 14-18 million pounds of fresh fish from Prince William Sound annually.  Approximately 90% of total revenue is derived from fresh and frozen fish, while salmon roe, both fresh and frozen, accounts for the remaining 10%.
Facility Snapshot

The Plant is a processor of premium, high-quality, and sustainable Alaskan salmon from Copper River, Prince William Sound, Cook Inlet, and Pacific Cod from the Gulf of Alaska.

​​Product Mix

The Plant processes five highly demanded fresh salmon varieties into fillets and roe:
  • Pink,
  • Coho (silver).
  • King Salmon, Sockeye (red),
  • Keta (chum)​
​Property Information

The facilities are located in a strategic location for salmon processing.  Further, there are barriers to entry for new processors due to exclusive location, permitting and regulation.

The Plant is the highest volume facility in Prince William Sound with prime transportation access at the head of the Passage Canal allowing the Company be first to market.

In addition to Plant and surrounding real property acquisitions, Parallax Seafoods has invested over $1.5 million in machinery, equipment and rolling stock to prepare for a Plant restart, including freezers, ice machines, forklifts, insulated totes, heading and gutting lines, vacuum pump and other high value assets.
Historic Revenues for Operation Plant by Segment
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Energy

G. Scott Pfoff, chairman of the Aurora Companies, and John H. Tindall, chairman of The TGC Companies, have enjoyed a 35 year investment and attorney client relationship and are co-owners of many of their respective assets.  The Aurora Companies are strategic co-investors in all TGC Companies’ Texas based activities, including oil field supply. Several TGC entities are co-investors in the Aurora Companies exploration activities. ​
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​Aurora Exploration, LLC
Dasbek Energy, LLC
Aurora Drilling, LLC 
Shirleyville, LLC
Aurora Power Resources, Inc.
Aurora Gas, LLC
​S²Energy, LLC
​Aurora Well Service, LLC
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John H. Tindall

Chairman & Chief Executive Officer
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The TGC Companies and Venture Lending Group I-VI
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Mr. Tindall has been a real estate attorney, entrepreneur and venture capital investor since 1985.  He served as president and managing partner of Tindall Bennett & Shoup, P.C. from 1996 to 2011, and remains of Counsel to the firm. He was Chairman of The Hulin Group, Ltd., general partner of Summit Title Insurance, L.P., until its acquisition by First American Corporation (NYSE: FAF) in 1998. He was an original investor in and general counsel for Alaska’s first statewide CDMA cellular carrier, Alaska DigiTel (AKD), beginning in 1996. He was Chairman of AKD from 2000 to 2008, when the company merged with and into GCI (NASDAQ: GNCMA).

Mr. Tindall is majority owner and Chairman of the TGC Companies, with real estate development and income properties in Alaska, Washington and Texas; oil & gas exploration activities in Colorado; and, through subsidiaries, oil field supply and leasing on the North Slope of Alaska and in East Texas.

He is chief executive officer, co-founder and managing director for Red Hawk Properties, LLC, and Black Hawk Properties, LLC, owners and operators of four office buildings in the Houston, Texas oil corridor.  Through TGC Holdings, LLC, he is lead lender for Venture Lending Groups I-VI, a series venture capital lender in the seafood processing, logistics, lumber and packaging businesses in Alaska, California and Washington.  Each of the Venture Lending Groups is managed by CTT Management Company, LLC, a wholly-owned TGC Companies subsidiary.

Mr. Tindall has extensive experience in all aspects of transactional real estate and venture capital ventures, including development, startup finance, land use, exchanges, mergers & acquisitions, and regulatory matters, and has been lead counsel or a principal in over $2 billion in real estate and venture capital transactions.  He has nationally recognized expertise in the formation of innovative real estate joint ventures involving limited liability entities and mergers & acquisitions.  (Chambers USA, America's Leading Lawyers for Business, named one of top five real estate lawyers for state of Alaska (2005 to present) and top 10 M&A lawyer for Alaska (2008 to present); Washington Law and Politics, Alaska Super Lawyer (2006 to present). Rated A/V Preeminent, Martindale-Hubbell, 2013 to present; Alaska Journal of Commerce, Alaska Men in Business, Top Businessmen (2005).  In 2016, the Legislature, in Alaska’s Economic Report for the Fourth Quarter, cited Mr. Tindall specifically and his company CTT Management Company, LLC  for his efforts to reopen fish processing in Prince William Sound through acquisition of the former Great Pacific Seafoods Plant in Whittier. 
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In addition, since 2010, he has been Chairman of The Corey Tindall Memorial Speech & Debate Fund, Inc., an Alaska non-profit corporation. Since its founding, the Corey Fund has donated over $175,000 in scholarships and other support to Alaska youth engaged in debate and forensics.  Mr. Tindall was awarded the Distinguished Service Award by the Anchorage School District in 2011 and inducted into The National Forensic League Speech & Debate Honor Society in 2012.

Joe M. Wiley

Chief Financial Officer, The Aurora Companies

Chief Financial Officer Real Estate, Oil Field Supply

​& Investment for TGC Companies
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Joe M. Wiley - Chief Financial Officer.   Mr. Wiley has served as CFO of Aurora Power since 2011. His 25 years of oil and gas experience include various accounting management and officer positions with Hunt Petroleum, Texas Oil and Gas Corp., Marathon Oil Company and J-W Operating Company. At Marathon, he managed the natural gas transportation division for the lower 48 and offshore production operations. His expertise covers all areas of oil and gas general accounting, joint interest operations, transportation, marketing, financial management, and facilities and property management.

Mr. Wiley served as CFO and was an owner/member with TrinityCare Senior Living, LLC. TrinityCare was organized in 2002 to develop and operate certified assisted living communities.   TrinityCare built three and managed four assisted living and memory care facilities in Pearland, Texas, Port Lavaca, Texas, Knoxville, Tennessee and Columbus, Georgia.    Mr. Wiley provided company oversight of the construction process and was the liaison between the architect, contractor and lender through each stage of construction.  Once operating, he provided support and supervision to the facility director regarding administration, accounting and daily plant management.
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Mr. Wiley handles all day-to-day property management.  He has been responsible for direct property management for 355,000 sq. feet of office/warehouse space, and will continue in that capacity for the TGC Companies.
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G. Scott Pfoff

Founder/Chairman & Majority Shareholder,

​The Aurora Companies

Managing Director & President Real Estate,

​Oil Field Supply and Investment for TGC Companies
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Mr. Pfoff is chairman of the Aurora Companies and has over thirty years of experience in oil & gas exploration/production and associated commercial activities. His first seventeen years were spent with a major, fully integrated oil and gas company (Marathon Oil) in the areas of natural gas marketing, business administration, and petroleum accounting.  Most of Mr. Pfoff’s focus during his tenure with Marathon Oil was in the Cook Inlet of Alaska; additionally, Mr. Pfoff was involved in Marathon’s Michigan operations.

Mr. Pfoff left Marathon Oil in 1994 to found what would become the Aurora Companies.   As cofounder and president of Aurora Power Resources, Inc., he managed all aspects of startup and operation of a company recognized three times as one of the fastest growing privately held companies based in Houston, Texas.  Annual sales growth from $740K in 1994 to $50+ million in 2005. Aurora Power markets natural gas, owns/operates a drilling rig company (Aurora Well Service, LLC), and owns/operates a remote man camp facility (Shirleyville Enterprises, LLC) serving the Cook Inlet oil patch.  Aurora Power owns Aurora Exploration, LLC which is currently raising capital and plans to drill 4 exploration wells in the Cook Inlet during the next two years.  
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As cofounder and president of Aurora Gas, LLC in 2002, Mr. Pfoff utilized personal resources and a subsequently negotiated private equity placement (> $50 million) to build the company into the first independent producer with operations in Cook Inlet, Alaska. The company operates five onshore natural gas fields and manages approximately 70,000 acres of leased and fee ownership lands.

Aurora Power partnered with Howell Oil & Gas (Marshall, Texas) in 2013 by forming S2 Energy Partners, LLC and drilling two wells in East Texas and two wells in Colorado’s DJ basin in the last twelve months. S2 Energy is pursuing other projects in those areas and other basins.

Mr. Pfoff has numerous contacts and business relationships in the Oil & Gas business fostered over his thirty-five-year career; he has been a member of the Houston Energy Association and the Michigan Oil & Gas Association. 

More recently, Mr. Pfoff has been a cofounder, executive management and/or investor in numerous highly successful real estate ventures in partnership with The TGC Companies., including the 5-acre Honey Creek commercial development in Austin, Texas successfully sold through affiliate TGC Texas Holdings, LLC to a major oil & gas exploration company.

As cofounder and Managing Member of WYAK Investments, LLC, Mr. Pfoff oversaw successful construction of a 55,000 square foot class A office building in Houston’s Westchase District.  The building was completed in 2008 and subsequently sold in 2013 to Smart Financial Credit Union at a significant profit.
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Mr. Pfoff has personally and through various entities acquired, developed and/or managed many properties in Kentucky, Texas, Washington and Alaska. He is a managing director and principal in Red Hawk Properties, LLC, and Black Hawk Properties, LLC, owners and operators of four office buildings in Houston, Texas.
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Michael Disler

Founder/Owner 
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On Demand Trucking, LLC

Transportation, Logistics & Strategic Director
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​Michael Disler is the founder of On Demand Trucking (ODT) and has operated in the trucking industry in Alaska for the past 22 years.  In recent years ODT has specialized in all aspects of transportation related to the commercial fishing industry, primarily serving the Kenai Peninsula.  Mr. Disler will continue his involvement in the trucking industry and help direct TGC's strategic operations in Alaska.
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Mr. Disler’s background is varied.  He received his BA degree from Fresno State Univesity in California where he played football for the Bulldogs. After 6 years working in the construction industry in the San Francisco Bay Area, he moved to Alaska and worked a variety of positions prior to serving as the manager for North Slope Borough, Service Area #10 which encompassed Prudhoe Bay, Kuparuk and all outlying oil fields on the North Slope of Alaska. During this time, he owned various commercial fish vessels. When IFQs were introduced an opportunity was exploited to ship fresh fish from the ports on the Kenai Peninsula to various markets, especially air freight. At this point On Demand Trucking was born. 

Thomas D. South

Founder/Chairman & Majority Shareholder,

​The Alaska Packaging Group

Managing Director Equipment Sales & Leasing;

​Chief Operating Officer Seafood for TGC Companies
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Thomas D. South is the founder of Alaska Packaging, Inc. (API), the largest supplier of packaging materials to the oil and seafood industries in the state of Alaska.   API Specializes in fields such as Perishable Packaging, Industrial Packaging and Fulfillment Packaging. 
 
He is also co-founder and managing partner of Alaska Packaging Lumber, LLC (APL), a joint venture with an Idaho based strategic co-investor with several manufacturing plants in the U.S. and Canada.  API and APL operate throughout Alaska and Washington, with facilities in Anchorage, Fairbanks, The Port of Tacoma and Burlington.  
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Strategic Co-Investors

   Supported Non-Profits
​Gnosis Retreat Center ​
​The Corey Tindall Memorial Speech & Debate Fund, Inc. ​​​

   Strategic Co-Investors
Alaska Packaging, Inc.​
Alaska Packaging Lumber, LLC.
Aurora Drilling, LLC ​​
Aurora Exploration, LLC​
​Aurora Gas, LLC
​Aurora Power Resources, Inc.
​Aurora Well Service, LLC
​Black Hawk Properties, LLC
​​CJT Investments, LLC
CJT Properties, LLC
​Cohiba Oilfield Services, LLC
​Colorado (COD) Drilling, LLC
​Corey Management, LLC
​Corey Management South, LLC
CTT Management Company, LLC​
​Dasbek, LLC
​Dasbek Energy, LLC
FMI-EPS
​Red Hawk Properties, LLC
​​Parallax Partners, LLC
​​​​Parallax Seafoods, LLC
​Punch Oilfield Services, LLC
​S²Energy, LLC​
Shirleyville, LLC
​​Tindall Group Consulting (TGC), LLC
TGC Holdings, LLC
TGC Texas Holdings, LLC
TGC Washington Holdings, LLC
​Venture Lending Group I-VI
​WYAK, LLC
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Contact Us

Real Estate/Venture Capital
​John H. Tindall
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​907-727-7328
​Energy
​G. Scott Pfoff
281-495-9051
​Finance/Admin Inquiries
​Joe M. Wiley
281-495-9957
​Seafood/Packaging

​Transportation & Logistics

Gary Bremer
208-660-8893

​Managed by Consulting Solutions Group
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