Andrew Putnam

DWS Investment Management Americas, Inc. (DIMA) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in New York City. The firm is a subsidiary of DWS USA Corp., ultimately held by Deutsche Bank AG (ETR: DBK) in Germany. The firm was founded in 1984 and formerly known as Deutsche Investment Management Americas Inc. In 2018, they changed their name into DWS as part of the rebranding of Deutsche Asset Management. DIMA provides discretionary and non-discretionary investment advisory services to various institutional clients. They also provide investment advisory services for its municipal bond strategies through wrap fee programs.

Hall Capital Partners LLC (HCP) is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor and wealth management firm headquartered in San Francisco, California. The firm was founded by Kathryn Hall in 1994. HCP advises on and manages multi-asset class portfolios for families, endowments, foundations, and other clients.

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLC provides assurance, tax and advisory services. Its services include audit and assurance, consulting, deals, human resources, legal, tax, and family business. The firm also offers accountability, risk management, structuring, mergers and acquisitions, and performance and process improvement. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Buffalo, NY.

Manifold Partners LLC (Investment Management) (Manifold-IM) is the alternative investment management division of Manifold Partners LLC, a systematic asset manager and quant research advisory firm headquartered in San Francisco, California. The firm was founded by Donald H. Putnam in 2012. Manifold-IM provides asset management solutions to sophisticated investors.

Integrated Trade Processing Corp. provides trading technology services. It offers its services to the investment managers, brokers, custodians, plan sponsors and operations outsourcers. The firm also provides shared-services that includes integrated and middle-office solutions for real-time post-trade processing needs. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Course Hero, Inc. engages in the development of online learning platform for course-specific study resources. It offers crowd sourced study documents, expert tutors, customizable flashcards and online courses. The firm helps users to maintain or improve grades all for less than the cost of a textbook. The company was founded by Jared Grauer, Gregor Carrigan, David Grauer, and Andrew T. Grauer in 2006 and is headquartered in Redwood City, CA.

Creighton Capital Management LLC (dba Creighton AI) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Newport Beach, California. The firm was founded by James “Jim” Creighton in 2004. They are principally owned by Artificial Intelligence Holdings LLC. Creighton AI advises pooled investment vehicles and provides investment management services through sub-advisory arrangements to institutions and pooled investment vehicles.

The Northern Trust Co. provides investment management, asset, fund administration, fiduciary and banking solutions. The company is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Part of Manulife Financial Corp., Maritime Life Assurance Co. is a Canadian company that provides life insurance services. The company is based in Halifax, Canada.

The Asset Consulting Group, Inc. offers investment advisory services and a range of investment options such as mutual funds, annuities, and stocks. The private company is based in Boise, ID. These investments are not insured by the FINRA or SIPC and are subject to investment risks.

Montgomery Asset Management LLC is a private company based in Sarasota, FL that was founded by Josephine Santos Jiménez. DDNS - Discount Domain Name Services is a family owned and operated domain registrar and hosting provider. The company was the first registrar to receive ISS certification.

Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation is a non-profit organization, which awards fellowships and grants. The company was founded in 1945 and is headquartered in Princeton, NJ.

CBL Markets Holdings Pty Ltd. facilitates trading of emissions allowances and offsets, water entitlements and allocations. The firm operates a platform that connects buyers and sellers around the world to facilitate the trading of products in environmental commodity markets. Its platform enables participants to trade Australian and the U.S. environmental products. The company was founded by Nathan Rockliff in 2009 and is headquartered in Sydney, Australia.

Grail Investment Corp. is a blank check company. It is seeking to acquire a controlling interest in a business in the financial services industry, other than depository institutions. Grail Partners LLC is the corporate sponsor of the company. Grail Investment Corp. was organized in December 2007 and is located in New York, NY

United Capital Financial Partners, Inc. engages in the provision of financial advisory services. It offers financial life management, guidance-driven investing, and extended financial services. The company was founded by Joseph John Duran, Patrick M. Bommarito and Caryn L. Westman in 2005 and is headquartered in Newport Beach, CA.

White Oak Capital Corp. provides investment services and manage a portfolio of senior secured loans. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Emerging Managers Group LP engages in the distribution of offshore asset management products. The company was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Bankers Trust Co. of Texas is a state chartered commercial bank. The private company is based in Dallas, TX.

Part of Welton Investment Corp., Welton Investment Partners LLC is an alternative asset manager that specializes in innovative, uncorrelated, actively managed strategies to deliver maximum investor outcomes regardless of market conditions. The company is based in Carmel, CA and was founded by Patrick Welton, who has been the CEO since incorporation. Welton Investment Partners manages assets for institutional and private investors with offices in NY and CA. The firm seeks to generate consistent investor returns by identifying recurrent market themes across various market environments and delivering absolute returns with low correlation to the broader markets. The company's current strategies include quantitative macro, systematic trend strategies, equity statistical arbitrage, a variety of multi-strategy and customized investments, as well as ESG advantage.

Xpansiv CBL Holding Group Ltd. operates as a commodity exchange. The firm ingests data, sourced from each commodity?s lifecycle, and converts it into Intelligent Commodities-digital assets that enable transactions based on comprehensive information. The company was founded by Joe Madden and is headquartered in Sydney, Australia.

Purfresh, Inc. provides food and water clean technology and storage services. It offers real-time monitoring and ozone response solution for cargo requiring ethylene, humidity, oxygen, and carbon dioxide adherence, and post-voyage data; Intellipur, a cloud-based cargo monitoring software that provides real-time visibility into and control over the conditions of fresh food, flowers, and temperature-sensitive cargo shipped in refrigerated marine containers; Total Active Environment, a supply chain management solution that creates, controls, and monitors the optimal environment for transporting the fresh food to consumers. The company was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Hayward, CA.

Align Infrastructure, Inc. provides investment services. The private company is based in Geyserville, CA. The company was founded in 2020. The CEO is Joel Jacobs.

Grail Partners LLC provides merchant banking services. It provides mergers, acquisitions, divestitures & restructuring services to global investment management businesses. It has offices in London, New York and San Francisco. The company was co-founded by Donald H. Putnam & William P. Henson in 2005 and is located in Boston, MA