Hugh McAlister

Citigroup Global Markets Ltd. (CGML) is an international broker-dealer firm headquartered in London, UK. The firm was founded in 1983 and is a subsidiary of Citigroup Global Markets Holdings Bahamas Ltd., ultimately held by Citigroup, Inc. (NYSE: C) in the US. CGML has a major presence in the international financial markets as a dealer, market-maker and underwriter in equity and fixed income securities and offers risk-based solutions to producers and investors in commodity markets. They also provide corporate finance services to a wide range of corporate, institutional and government clients. Their trading activities encompass cash, exchange traded and OTC derivative markets.

Numis Securities Ltd. is an institutional brokerage firm headquartered in London, UK. The firm was founded in 1988 and is a subsidiary of Numis Corp. Plc in (LON: NUM). Numis Securities serves as a corporate broker to several clients across all their sectors, ranging from FTSE 100 to FTSE small-cap companies and AIM-listed companies.

Panmure Gordon (UK) Ltd. (PGL) is the stockbroking subsidiary of Panmure Gordon & Co. Ltd. in Great Britain. Headquartered in London, the firm was founded in 2003 and provides corporate finance advice, distributes and trades securities and produces investment research to UK small and mid-cap corporates and investment companies. PGL has access to capital markets via a range of equity and equity-linked products such as IPOs, accelerated book buildings, placings, rights issues, and bought deals. The firm's institutional equities department provides UK-focused research, sales and trading services to institutional investors in the UK, US and Europe.

CMC Markets UK Plc provides on-line financial trading services. It offers contracts for difference, financial spread betting and foreign exchange trading services. The company was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in London, UK.

Ishida Co. Ltd. manufactures and provides weighing and packaging solutions, primarily for the food processing industry. It offers multihead and cut-gate weigher, snack food bagmaker, case packer conveyor, inline inspection, checkweigher, metal detector, x-ray inspection systems. The company was founded on October 16, 1948 and is headquartered in Kyoto, Japan.

Motherwell Bridge Ltd. provides engineering services. The company was founded in 1898 and is headquartered in Motherwell, the United Kingdom.

Part of Houlihan Lokey, Inc., GCA Altium Ltd. is a brokerage services provider. The company is based in London, UK. The British company was founded by Michael James Hough. Philip Adams has been the CEO of the company since 1996. GCA Altium was acquired by GCA Corp. (Japan), part of Houlihan Lokey, Inc. from September 27, 2021 on July 31, 2016 for $110.25 million.

Shorterm Group Ltd. operates as an employment agent which engages in the provision of temporary and permanent placement of skilled personnel in engineering enviroment. The company was founded on September 21, 1998 and is headquartered in Middlesex, the United Kingdom.

Deutsche Bank AG (Deutsche Bank UK) is the UK-based securities brokerage division of Deutsche Bank AG (ETR: DBK) in Germany. The firm is headquartered in London and was founded in 1873. Deutsche Bank provides brokerage services to companies and institutions.

IBM United Kingdom Ltd. provides computer software and hardware services. Its products include mainframes, servers, storage systems and peripherals, processors, memory chips, microelectronics and software portfolio with applications from database management tools to operating systems. The company was founded in 1951 and is headquartered in Portsmouth, the United Kingdom.

The Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) is professional marketing body with above 50,000 members in 130 countries. Its International Offices are situated in Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Hong Kong and Singapore. The Chartered Institute of Marketing is headquartered in Maidenhead, UK

Newmarket Capital Ltd. provides financial and corporate advisory services to financial institutions. It is a subsidiary of Excalibur Group Holdings Ltd. The company was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

HSBC Bank Plc (Broker) (HSBC Bank-Broker) is the broker/dealer division of HSBC Bank Plc, which is owned by HSBC Holdings Plc (LON: HSBA; NYSE: HSBC) in Great Britain. Headquartered in London, HSBC Bank-Broker was founded in 1880 and offers bespoke brokerage services across every major asset class for their corporate and institutional clients.

XL Capital Assurance (UK) Ltd. is located in the UK. Part of Syncora Guarantee, Inc., XL Capital Assurance (UK) Ltd. is a British company.

Liberum Capital Ltd. (Liberum) is a brokerage firm headquartered in London, UK. The firm was founded by Shane Le Prevost in 2007 to provide a different style of broking. They were acquired by Panmure Liberum Ltd. from TN Holdings (BVI) Ltd. in 2024. Headquartered in London, Liberum provides trading and execution services for institutional clients. They bring liquidity into the niches that matter and are market-makers in various large, mid and small-cap stocks.

Marex Group Plc provides brokerage services for commodities, financials, and foreign exchange. It operates through Clearing, Agency and Execution, Market Making, and Hedging and Investment Solutions segments. The Clearing segment allows the clients access to exchanges and clearing houses. The Agency and Execution segment match buyers and sellers on an agency basis by facilitating price discovery of commodities and financial markets. The Market Making segment offers direct market pricing to professional and wholesale counterparties in a variety of commodity and securities markets. The company was founded by Mark Slade in 2005 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Tintrade Ltd. provides investment services. The private company is based in Orpington, UK and has subsidiaries in Estonia, Latvia, and the Russian Federation.

Part of Billown Settlement Trust, Peel Environmental Ltd. is a company based in Manchester, UK that specializes in natural resources and energy. The British company re-use, re-purposes, and re-energize natural resources to develop and maintain vital infrastructure across the country. Peel NRE, part of Peel L&P, is at the heart of the nation's activity around clean growth and the circular economy, helping to achieve net zero by 2050 and supporting the regions in their actions to achieve climate emergency targets. The company is experts in renewable energy, district heating, waste to value, water management, materials management, and electric vehicle charging. The company's Protos Cheshire Energy and Resource Hub leads the way in low carbon energy and waste management with the deployment of innovative technologies. The company provides a range of water supply and drainage services along 124km of waterways and promote the beneficial recycling and recovery of all wastes. The company works in partnership with investors, technology providers, and businesses, together with the public sector, to provide bespoke real estate, infrastructure, and operational solutions for the low carbon and circular economy sector.

Agency Partners LLP provides brokerage services. The private company is based in London, UK and has subsidiaries in United Kingdom.

Heliex Power Ltd. designs and manufactures screw expander systems for energy recovery. It offers expander systems, such as self-contained skid mounted generator sets. Its products are used in electricity generation, petrochemical industries, glass and refractories, pharmaceuticals, food, brewing and distilling, paper production, biomass, and land fill gas engines applications. The company was founded by Marco Iezzi and Daniel Whitelaw Wright in 2009 and is headquartered in Glasgow, the United Kingdom.

Waste2Tricity Ltd. engages in the provision of structured solutions for the energy-from-waste (EfW) sector, an industry supplying increasing amounts of electricity using feedstock diverted from landfill. The company was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Part of N1 Singer Ltd., Singer Capital Markets Securities Ltd. is a brokerage firm. The company is based in London, UK. The British company was founded in 2012 by Timothy Bruce Cockroft, Peter Welch. Timothy Bruce Cockroft has been the CEO since 2012.

Oteac Ltd. provides fire, safety and engineering services. The firm offers service and engineering support for portable fire protection and fixed suppression systems, such as access control, air sampling detection, CCTV, fire and gas including mapping facility, fire detection and security, fixed gaseous suppression, fire protection, residential sprinkler, linear heat detection, and water mist systems; and deluge and sprinkler skids, and fire alarms. It provide services to the industrial, commercial, public, marine, offshore oil and gas and drilling sectors. The company was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in Aberdeen, the United Kingdom.

The Lazarus Partnership Ltd. is a British company that provides investment research. The private company is based in London, UK. The company was founded in 2011 by David P. Knox, who has been the CEO since 2011.

Fuel 3D Technologies Ltd. develops and manufactures 3D scanning systems and solutions. The company was founded by Ronald Daniel and James A. Peterson in 2014 and is headquartered in Oxford, the United Kingdom.

Nucore Group Ltd. specializes in engineering products and services. It offers fire and safety products, including fire detection and security, fire protection, lifesaving, safety, and lifting equipment; and fire and security, offshore, safety equipment, product supply, asset management, lifting and testing, marine, and safety and environmental management services. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Bridge Of Don, the United Kingdom.

Advanced Insulation Holdings Ltd. engages in holding or owning securities of companies. The company was founded on January 16, 2014 and is headquartered in Gloucester, the United Kingdom.

Part of Growth Capital Partners LLP, Grouse Topco Ltd. is a British company that provides employment services. The company is based in West Drayton, UK and was founded in 2016.

Electric Aviation Group Ltd. provides research services aimed at minimizing and eliminating carbon dioxide emissions from aircraft.

Liontrust ESG Trust Plc operates as an investment company. It invests in sustainable companies around the world, predominantly in developed market securities. The company was founded on April 4, 2021 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Waterloo Street BPRA Property Fund LLP is a British investment company founded in 2009. The private company is based in London, UK. The company provides investment services.