Out To Lunch - New Orleans Business Podcast

It’s New Orleans: Out to Lunch

Hosted ByPeter Ricchiuti

Tulane University A.B. Freeman School of Business finance professor Peter Ricchiuti holds court over lunch at Columns in Uptown New Orleans. Peter's lunch guests are New Orleans business people, from startups to CEO's, from artists to tech entrepreneurs, musicians to movers-and-shakers. New Orleans is on everybody's list as a great place to party but it's also on many lists of the best place to start a business. Peter's deeply knowledgable and equally levity-laden approach to business conversation neatly makese sense of the Crescent City's contradictions.

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.

Realtor Tracey Moore