Dana D. Hobson

Bailard, Inc. is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Foster City, California. The firm (formerly Bailard, Biehl and Kaiser prior to its re-naming in 2005) was founded in 1969 by three graduates of the Stanford Graduate School of Business. They are a wholly owned subsidiary of BB&K Holdings, Inc. Bailard provides investment advisory and financial planning services and offers single asset strategies to investors on a standalone basis. The firm manages separate accounts for institutional clients and provides advisory and sub-advisory services to pooled investment vehicles.

UBS O'Connor LLC is a registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. The firm was founded in 2000 and is a subsidiary of UBS Asset Management (Americas) Inc., ultimately owned by UBS Group AG (SIX, NYSE: UBS) in Switzerland. UBS O'Connor primarily provides discretionary and non-discretionary investment advisory services to various types of pooled investment vehicles, (which may or may not be exempt from registration), pension or profit-sharing plans, and institutional separately managed accounts.

Hedgy, Inc. provides hedging products for commercial bitcoin miners. It offers BITForward, an over-the-counter derivative contract that allows speculators to gain exposure to the price movement of bitcoin. The firm provides hedging tools to lock-in the value of bitcoin holdings and to eliminate volatility for miners. The company was founded by Juan Pineda, Warren Paul Anderson, Matthew Simon Slater and Tim Olson on April 26, 2014 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

BlackRock Fund Advisors (BFA) is a registered investment advisor headquartered in San Francisco, California. The firm was founded in 1984 and is a subsidiary of BlackRock Delaware Holdings, Inc., ultimately held by BlackRock, Inc. (NYSE: BLK). BFA manages assets for US registered investment companies, including ETFs. Mandates include cash management, equity, fixed income, multi-asset and index strategies.

Bitnet Technologies Corp. provides digital commerce platform that enables sellers to accept Bitcoin payments. Its platform enables sellers to set prices in their local currency and get paid in local currency and secure consumer transactions. The company was founded by John Mcdonell and Stephen Mc Namara in January 2014 and is headquartered in Mill Valley, CA.