Out To Lunch - New Orleans Business Podcast

It’s New Orleans: Out to Lunch

Hosted ByPeter Ricchiuti

OUT TO LUNCH finds the country's most entertaining finance professor Peter Ricchiuti conducting business New Orleans style: over lunch. Each week Peter invites guests from the New Orleans business world to join him, sometimes for fine dining others for pizza. From CEO's to startups, managers, musicians, biomed needle-movers, Silicon Bayou success stories and entrepreneurs of all stripes put aside the elevator pitch and the talking points and actually enjoy themselves. It's business, New Orleans style.
You can also hear the show on WWNO 89.9FM.

Down The Mississippi To The Gulf of Mexico – Out to Lunch – It’s New Orleans

September 24, 2015 Out to Lunch Comments Off on Down The Mississippi To The Gulf of Mexico – Out to Lunch – It’s New Orleans

In 1814 it was the British who were “runnin’ down the mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico.” Today, ships of almost every nationality are steaming down the river to the Gulf. 54 of them belong to International Shipholding. Their fleet of cargo vessels ply international trade from their current headquarters in Mobile, Alabama but they’re set to return soon to their original home in New Orleans.

manny estrada, peter ricchiuti

International Shipholding is a publicly traded company on the New York Stock Exchange and its CFO and Vice President is Manny Estrada. Manny joins Peter on this edition of Out to Lunch.

randy bullard, manny estrada, peter ricchiuti

Randy Bullard also spends a lot of his time on the river, but also in it and under it. Randy is the President of River Services Company. The company has offices in Harahan, Mississippi, Tennessee and Kentucky and a fleet of 10 ships that provide river services like underwater construction, welding, and salvage. 

ron gard, manny estrada, randy bullard, peter ricchiuti

In the You Heard It Here First segment of today’s show Ron Gard introduces his entrepreneurial idea Wavepool. Which, incidentally, has nothing to do with waves or pools or water. You can hear a longer conversation about Wavepool with Ron, Peter, Manny and Randy here.

randy bullard, manny estrada, peter ricchiuti, ron gard

All the photos on this page were taken at Commander’s Palace by Chet Overall.