Tortoise North American Energy names Thummel as president - Kansas City Business Journal:

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The Leawood-based company (NYSE: TYN) said in a release Tuesdayu that Thummel joined LLC in 2004 as aninvestmenrt analyst. He was director of finance for , a subsidiary of Kansas City-based GXP), from 1998 to 2004, and a seniorr auditor for from 1995to 1998. David Schulte, formerlyt president and CEO, remains as CEO. Pam investor relations spokeswoman for TortoiseCapital Advisors, said in an intervieqw that the decision to separate the presiden and CEO roles is “an evolutionn for us of where we’re heading with our funds.
” “Bringing Rob in will give Dave an opportunit y to focus on issues, opportunitieds and trends,” she Tortoise North American Energy invests in a portfoli of royalty trusts and master limitecd partnerships in the North America n energy markets. • (NYSE: TYG), which investz in midstream U.S. energyy infrastructure. • (NYSE: TYY), which is similar to TYG but focuses more on masterlimitesd partnerships. • (NYSE: TTO), which investd in all areas of U.S. energy infrastructure, focusinf on private, micro-cap and public companies. , a private fund, whicuh invests in privately held and publicly tradexd upstream and midstream masterlimitesd partnerships.
• , a private fund, which is bein g adapted to fit the needws of institutional investors interested in mastedr limited partnerships related toenergy infrastructure. As of July 31, Tortoisee Capital Advisors had about $2.6 billion in assets under management.