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iShares, Inc. exchange Traded Fund. The Company operates as an open-end management investment company. iShares was founded on September 1, 1994 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

CheckFree Corp. provides financial electronic commerce services and products. The company works with the financial institutions, web portals and organizations that issue regular bills and statements to give consumers the ability to receive and pay bills online. It offers services such as core processing, electronic billing, risk management, payments, and wealth management. CheckFree was founded in 1981 and is headquartered in Norcross, GA

Tennenbaum Capital Partners LLC (TCP) is a registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in Santa Monica, California. The firm was founded in 1999 and is a subsidiary of BlackRock Capital Investment Advisors LLC, ultimately owned by Blackrock, Inc. (NYSE: BLK), which acquired them in 2018. TCP manages assets for pooled investment vehicles, US-registered investment companies, business development companies and private investment funds.

RobecoSam USA, Inc. (formerly Sustainable Asset Management USA, Inc.) is a registered investment advisor located in New York City. The firm is a subsidiary of RobecoSam AG and their ultimate parent is Coöperatieve Centrale Raiffeisen-Boerenleenbank BA.

Sysomos, Inc. provides social media analytics to corporations, marketers, public relations agencies, and advertisers. It also offers research and analytics, listen and monitor, social media reports, and image monitoring solutions. The company was founded by Nick Koudas and Nilesh Bansal in September 2007 and is headquartered in Toronto, CA.

Janrain, Inc. provides customer identity management technology services. It offers a customer identity management platform that helps companies to build a unified view of their customers across all devices by collecting accurate customer profile data to power personalized marketing. Its platform includes social login, registration, customer profile data storage, customer insights, single sign-on, and user-generated content. The firm serves consumer brands, entertainment, insurance, media, nonprofit and education, retail, and technology customers. The company was founded by Larry Drebes in 2002 and is headquartered in Portland, OR.

BlackRock Institutional Trust Co. NA is a national banking association headquartered in San Francisco, California. The firm was founded in 1999 and is a subsidiary of BlackRock Delaware Holdings, Inc., ultimately owned by BlackRock, Inc. (NYSE: BLK). They operate as a limited purpose trust firm.

Schweizerische Rückversicherungs-Gesellschaft AG provides reinsurance, insurance, and risk management solutions. The firm focuses on the property and casualty, life and health, and asset management sectors. The company was founded on May 1, 1883 and is headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland.

Credit Suisse AG is an investment management firm headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland. The firm was founded in 1856 and was acquired by UBS Group AG (SWX: UBSG) from Credit Suisse Group AG in 2023. Credit Suisse manages global and regional portfolios, mutual funds, and other investment vehicles for governments, institutions, corporations and individuals worldwide. They also offer private banking and wealth management, investment banking, and corporate and business support services.

BlackRock International Ltd. (BIL) is the Great Britain-based subsidiary of BlackRock Group Ltd., itself a subsidiary of BlackRock Inc. (NYSE: BLK) in the US. Founded in 1995, the firm is headquartered in Edinburgh and manages assets for institutional clients, separate accounts, pooled investment vehicles and US registered investment companies, including ETFs. Mandates include equity, fixed income and multi-asset strategies. BIL is socially responsible investors which has mandates that explicitly address social, ethical, or environmental considerations.

Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. LP (KKR) is a private equity subsidiary of KKR & Co. Inc founded in 1976 by Henry Kravis, George Roberts and Jerome Kohlberg. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Paraform, Inc. is a company that offers a platform for individuals to get paid for recruiting for tech startups. The company is based in Santa Clara, CA. The company's focus is on making recruiting more accessible. The company was founded by Venkat Krishnamurthy, John Kim, Jeffrey Li. John Kim has been the CEO since incorporation.

Oblix Inc. used to develop e-business infrastructure software that was securely connecting the right people to the right resources on e-business networks. The company's flagship product, Oblix NetPoint, was a web access management solution that was providing single sign-on and access control capabilities in addition to a rich set of identity management functionality. It had offices in North America and Europe. The company was headquartered in Cupertino, CA

[24]7.ai, Inc. delivers customer engagement software and services for customers to interact with companies through the web, mobile, chat, social, and phone. Its products include active share, chat, customer engagement platform, digital chat agents, speech - vivid speech, virtual agent, and Face book messenger for enterprise. The firm serves education, financial services, healthcare, insurance, retail and e-commerce, telecom, travel and hospitality, and utilities. The company was founded by Pallipuram V. Kannan, Prakash Gurbaxani, Sudhakar Kosaraju, and Shanmugam Nagarajan in 2000 and is headquartered in Campbell, CA.

BlackRock Investment Management (UK) Ltd. (BIM-UK) is an investment management firm headquartered in London, UK. The firm is a subsidiary of BlackRock Finance Europe Ltd., ultimately owned by BlackRock, Inc. (NYSE: BLK) in the US. BIM-UK was founded in 2006 following the merger of Merrill Lynch Investment Managers and BlackRock. In 2009, BlackRock merged with Barclays Global Investors, including the iShares exchange traded funds business. The combined firm operates under the BlackRock name and has retained the iShares brand. BIM-UK manages a family of mutual funds and acts as sub-advisor to other mutual and pension funds. They also offer alternative investments and managed accounts for individual and institutional clients.

BlackRock (Netherlands) BV (BlackRock Netherlands) is an investment management firm headquartered in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The firm was founded in 1998 and is a subsidiary of BlackRock Finance Europe Ltd., ultimately owned by BlackRock, Inc. (NYSE: BLK) in the US. BlackRock Netherlands provides investment, advisory and risk management solutions to pension plans, insurers, investment banks, savings banks, foundations, official institutions, and individuals.

National Association of Securities Professionals is a Non-Profit Organization, which assists people to achieve inclusion in the financial services industry. The company was founded by Maynard H. Jackson, Felicia Flowers-Smith, Joyce M. Johnson & Donald Davidson in 1985 and is headquartered in Washington, DC.

Part of UBS Group AG, UBS Asset Management, Inc. provides investment management services. The company is based in New York, NY.

Schweizerische Rückversicherungs-Gesellschaft AG (Invt Port) (Swiss Re IP) is the investment portfolio division of Schweizerische Rückversicherungs-Gesellschaft AG (Swiss Reinsurance Co., Ltd.) itself a subsidiary of Swiss Re AG (SW: SREN) in Switzerland. Based in Zurich, the Swiss Re Group was established in 1863 and provides wholesale reinsurance, insurance and other insurance-based forms of risk transfer to insurance companies, corporations and public sector entities. Swiss Re IM optimizes risk-adjusted investment returns within defined risk limits for the Group’s Business Units, Reinsurance, Corporate Solutions and Admin Re. They are a socially responsible investor which has a strategic approach in place to define and drive key activities across the firm. They have a special focus on climate change and are a signatory to the UN Global Compact.

BlackRock Advisors (UK) Ltd. (BlackRock UK) is the Great Britain-based investment management subsidiary of BlackRock Finance Europe Ltd., ultimately held by BlackRock, Inc. (NYSE: BLK) in the US. The firm was founded in 1964 and formerly known as Barclays Global Investors Ltd. Headquartered in London, BlackRock UK manages a range of investment products for various UK and continental European clients including defined benefit and defined contribution pension plans, insurance companies, educational and nonprofit organizations, local government entities, and individual and families.

SIX Swiss Exchange AG operates as a stock exchange. It distributes a range of indices; and offers market data for shares, bonds, ETFs and funds, ETPs, indices, statistics, and data services. The firm enables to list and trade in segments, including equities, bonds, exchange traded funds (ETFs), exchange traded products (ETPs), derivatives, sponsored funds, sponsored foreign shares, warrants, and structured products. The company was founded in 1850 and is headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland.

The OpenID Foundation is a non-profit organization that aims to create secure, interoperable, and privacy-preserving identity standards. The private company is based in San Ramon, CA. The foundation's AB/Connect working group is aimed at producing the OAuth 2.0 based "OpenID Connect" specifications. Additionally, the foundation has a project named OpenID for Verifiable Credentials, which consists of three specifications. The foundation requires all contributors to sign its standard form contribution agreement to ensure that its community develops freely implementable specifications. Founded in 2007, the foundation has released the Gain Digital Trust whitepaper, which called for the creation of a highly interoperable network for high-trust identity assurance.

Tennenbaum Capital Partners (Private Equity) (Tennenbaum Capital Partners) is a private equity subsidiary of Tennenbaum Capital Partners LLC founded in 1996 by Michael Ernest Tennenbaum, Mark Keith Holdsworth and Howard Marshall Levkowitz. The firm is headquartered in Santa Monica, California.

Part of BlackRock, Inc., iShares Delaware Trust Sponsor LLC provides investment services. The company is based in New York, NY. Shannon Ghia has been the CEO of the company since 2022.

AV8 Ventures (AV8 Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2018. The firm is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

Daimler Truck AG manufactures commercial vehicles. Its brand offerings include Bharat Benz, Freightliner, Fuso, Mercedes-Benz, Setra, Thomas Built Buses, and Western Star. The company is headquartered in Stuttgart, Germany.

Part of Mercedes-Benz Group AG, Mercedes-Benz AG is a German company based in Stuttgart, Germany. Mercedes-Benz AG is known for its innovative concepts, exceptional collaborations, and background stories that inspire. The CEO of the company is Ola Källenius.