From Forbes:

The president and CEO of Boots & Coots International Well Control (WEL) is 6 foot 6, weighs 285 pounds and speaks from behind a handlebar mustache about a career spent taming oil fires and blowouts.

As a leader of Boots & Coots since 1998, he has grown the company's revenue from $25 million a year to $210 million, and expanded it from 60 employees to 700. The Houston-based firm is known for putting out well infernos in Iraq and war-torn Kuwait, where Winchester once managed a team. ("I don't even think we got a hangnail in Iraq," he says.) The company recently made headlines again when it suspended operations in Venezuela after the country's state-owned oil company refused to pay a mounting tab.

These days Boots & Coots is more hat than cowboy--Winchester has guided the firm away from its brawny, near bankrupt past by diversifying services.

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