Aliya Yasmin Ahmed

Barings LLC is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina. Founded in 1940, the firm is direct subsidiary of MM Asset Management Holding LLC and their ultimate parent is Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co. (MassMutual). MassMutual?s affiliated companies include financial services companies that provide investment management services and individual protection insurance to clients worldwide. Barings provides a broad range of investment advisory and management services to institutional clients, registered investment companies, and other pooled investment vehicles.

The Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan Board (OTPPB) is the Province of Ontario’s pension fund manager headquartered in Toronto, Canada. Founded in 1990, OTPPB administers a defined benefit pension plan to active and retired teachers in Ontario. The firm manages investment portfolios for the benefit of present and future plan members and their survivors. OTPPB is a signatory to the UN Principles for Responsible Investment (UNPRI).

Amadeus Capital Partners Ltd is an independent venture capital firm is founded by Anne Glover and Hermann Hauser in 1997. The firm is headquartered in London, UK.

Paladin Capital Group (Paladin Capital) is a private equity subsidiary of Penn Ave Investments LLC founded by Mark Maloney and Michael Steed in 2001. The firm is headquartered in Washington, DC with offices in New York City, Silicon Valley, London and Luxembourg.

BII Group Ltd. (BII Group) is a private equity/venture capital, a subsidiary of Government of United Kingdom was founded by James Murray Grant in 1948. The firm is headquartered in London with offices in Bengaluru, Mumbai, Nairobi, Pakistan, Sandton, and Bangladesh.

Grant Thornton UK LLP provides accounting and management consultancy services. Its services include tax, audit & assurance, financial planning, corporate finance, recovery, reorganization, forensic, and investigation services. The company is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Fordham University provides college and university. It offers undergraduate colleges and graduate & professional schools. The company was founded in 1841 and is headquartered in Bronx, NY.

The PR Office helps organizations of all sizes to tell their stories to the right audiences, in the right places, and at the right time. The private company is based in London, UK, and has subsidiaries in the United Kingdom. The British company creates reputations by crafting stories that appear on multiple platforms. The PR Office offers media relations, financial communications, investor relations, and bespoke communication strategies to help clients hone their message and unlock value. The company's team is composed of multi-talented professionals with experience in big agencies, professional services, not-for-profits, business, media, and home-grown industries.

Palatine Private Equity LLP (Palatine Private Equity) is a private equity firm founded in 2005 by Gary Tipper and Edmund Fazakerley. The firm is headquartered in Manchester.

Atomico (UK) Partners LLP (Atomico (UK) Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 2006 by Mattias Ljungman and Niklas Mårten Zennström. The firm is headquartered in London, United Kinghdom with additional offices in Sau Paulo and New York.

CECP Advisors (CECP-UK) is the Great Britain-based venture capital subsidiary of global private equity investment group Carlyle Group LLC, ultimately held by the Carlyle Group LP (NASDAQ: CG) in the US. The group has additional offices throughout Europe in Barcelona, Frankfurt, Luxembourg, Milan, Munich, Paris, Stockholm and Warsaw. Formerly known as CECP Investment Advisors Ltd., the firm was established in 1997 and is based in London. They cooperate closely with Carlyle offices in Paris, Munich, Milan and Barcelona, sub-advising private equity funds for the parent group. They manage the Carlyle Europe Partners series of buyout funds, as well as venture capital funds, all domiciled in Luxembourg. Their international clientele includes public pension funds and agencies, financial institutions, high-net worth individuals and corporate pension schemes.

Next Wave Partners LLP (Next Wave Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 2002. The firm is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Redburn (Europe) Ltd. (dba Redburn Atlantic) is an equity brokerage firm headquartered in London, UK. The firm was founded in 2003 by Jeremy Evans and Nick Glydon. They are a wholly owned subsidiary of Rothschild & Co. Continuation Holdings AG, ultimately owned by Rothschild & Co SCA. (EPA: ROTH) in France. Redburn Atlantic provides institutional investors with US and European equity research, trade execution and capital markets services. Their Execution Services division delivers high-touch sales trading and execution as well as low-touch execution and algorithmic solutions. The division also offers market structure and trading analytics.

Fuse Venture Partners LLP (Fuse Venture Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 2005 by Spyro Korsanos. The firm is headquartered in London, United Kingdom.

InfraRed Capital Partners Ltd (InfraRed Capital partners) is a private equity subsidiary of Sun Life Financial, Inc. founded in 1997. The firm is headquartered in London with additional offices in Hong Kong, New York, Sydney, Seoul.

Augusta & Co. Ltd. (Augusta) is an independent, specialist financial advisory and investment house headquartered in London, UK. The firm was founded in 2002 by a group of senior bankers from various investment banks. Augusta provides investment management services in bespoke situations for large institutional primary investors.

B2Boost SA specializes in the automation and digitization of B2B data interchanges. The private company is based in Brussels, Belgium. The Belgian company was founded by François Camille Gilbert van Uffelen.

Wellershoff & Partners Ltd. is an independent economics consultancy firm headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland. The firm was founded by Dr. Klaus W. Wellershoff in 2009. It offers a wide range of advisory services to various clients.

King's College London Students' Union operates as a students' union. The non-profit company is based in London, UK. Denis Shukur has been the CEO of the British company since 2018.

BEX Capital SAS (BEX Capital) is an independent private equity firm founded in 2009. The firm is headquartered in Nice, France.

OC&C Strategy Consultants LLP provides strategic consulting services. The company was founded by Christopher David Outram on October 24, 2006 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Medicxi Ventures (Jersey) Ltd. (Medicxi) is an independent venture capital firm founded in 2016 by Francesco de Rubertis, Michèle Ollier, and Kevin S. Johnson. The firm is headquartered in London.

Addition Capital Ltd. (Addition Capital) is a private equity firm founded in 2018 by Jay Verjee. The firm is headquartered in London, United Kingdom.

Invest Europe is a Belgian company that operates as a private equity, venture capital and infrastructure investment company. The company is based in Brussels, Belgium.

Cloud 8 Ltd. is a software as-a-service (SaaS) provider that offers a benefits platform called BEAM at Work™. Cloud 8 is based in Rudgeway, UK. The platform aims to simplify and make workplace benefits affordable for advisors, employers, and employees. Cloud8 operates on a B2B2C business model and provides white-labeled services. The British company's BRIDGE program offers preferential rates and deals to SMEs through the collective buying power of its platform users. The company was founded by Ian Rummels, and the CEO is Dipa Mistry Kandola.

Fidelity International Ltd. provides investment management and mutual fund platform services. The private company is based in London, UK. The CEO of the British company is Anne Helen Richards.

Part of Houlihan Lokey, Inc., Houlihan Lokey Capital (Holdings) Ltd. is a holding British company that provides financial advisory services through its subsidiaries. The company is based in London, UK and was founded in 2007.

Bregal Milestone LLP (Bregal Milestone) is a private equity subsidiary of Bregal Investments LLP founded in 2018 by Jan Bruennler, Cyrus Shey and Philippe Lautenberg. The firm is headquartered in London, United Kingdom.