Jeff Omohundro

Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC (Credit Suisse Securities USA) is the broker/dealer division of Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, an investment banking company headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1998 and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Credit Suisse (USA), Inc., ultimately owned by Credit Suisse Group AG (SWX: CSGN) in Switzerland. Credit Suisse Securities USA offers a suite of equities, solutions and credit products and services which includes global securities sales, trading and execution, prime brokerage and comprehensive investment research. Their clients include financial institutions, corporations, governments, institutional investors, such as pension funds and hedge funds, and private individuals around the world.

Eagle Asset Management, Inc. (Eagle) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in St. Petersburg, Florida. The firm was founded in 1976 by Tom James and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Carillon Towers Advisers, Inc., which is wholly owned by Raymond James Financial, Inc. (NYSE: RJF). Eagle provides portfolio management services to institutions and high net-worth clients (individual investors, trusts and smaller employee benefit plans) and serves as the investment subadvisor to the Carillon Funds.

7-Eleven, Inc. engages in the operation and owning of convenience stores. Its products include sandwiches, salads, side dishes, cut fruit and protein boxes, as well as pizza, chicken wings, and mini beef tacos. The company also offers beverages such as coffee and tea, cold pressed juices, beer and wine, energy shots and drinks, big gulp, and Slurpee. The company was founded by Joe C. Thompson Jr. in 1927 and is headquartered in Irving, TX.

Merrill Lynch International (MLI-UK) is a brokerage firm headquartered in London, UK. The firm was founded in 1988 and is a subsidiary of ML UK Capital Holdings Ltd., ultimately owned by Bank of America Corp. (NYSE: BAC) in the US. MLI-UK provides brokerage services to individual and retail clients.

Versent Corp. operates as a leisure and entertainment company. It offers special packages for birthday parties, day camps, youth groups, special events and sports teams. The company was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in Mississauga, Canada.

Guggenheim Securities LLC is a SEC-registered broker-dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1999 and is a subsidiary of Links Holdings LLC, ultimately held by Guggenheim Partners LLC. Guggenheim Securities’ specializations include the sales and trading of fixed-income securities and sophisticated structured products. The firm offers in-depth analysis and expert execution of trading opportunities to large institutional investors and asset originators. They offer sales and trading services relating to a wide range of instruments.

Founded in 1994 as Carolina Capital Markets, CCM provides money managers with access to the secondary fixed-income market, best execution capability, and a compliant method for clients to acquire independent research through competitive commissions. CCM believes that strong relationships in the street and with the buy side are key to delivering value to their clients. At other firms, a salesman may pass off customer’s order to a busy trader. At CCM customer’s broker goes directly to the street and works customer’s trade all the way through to execution. By combining sales and trading roles, they cut a layer of cost, allowing them to work on thinner spreads while still providing best execution. CCM is an institutional fixed income broker dealer and leading provider of third party fixed income research with bond trades executed on an agency basis.

Founded in 1984, Noble Financial Capital Markets is a broker/dealer headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida. The firm is a subsidiary of Noble Financial Group, Inc. Noble Financial Capital Markets' sales & trading team provides strategic insight and reliable solutions to nearly 500 of the dominant small-cap money managers in North America. They are members FINRA, SIPC and MSRB. Noble Financial Capital Markets offers a full array of investment services with a particular focus on under-followed, undervalued, out-of-favor small-cap emerging growth companies. Their research coverage universe includes healthcare, business services & software, defense/defense technology, energy, enterprise hardware, and media & entertainment.

Thompson, Siegel & Walmsley LLC (TSW) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Richmond, Virginia. The firm was founded in 1969 and is a subsidiary of Pendal USA, Inc., which is owned by Perpetual Ltd. (ASX: PPT) in Australia. TSW offers a full range of investment management strategies which includes US and Non-US Equities, Income Strategies, Balanced portfolio strategies and Alternatives for both Institutional and Strategic Advisory clients.

Harvard University engages in the provision of teaching and research. It has twelve degree-granting Schools in addition to the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, offering a global education. The university was founded in 1636 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Founded in 2002 by Hunter Thompson and William Davis, Thompson Davis & Co. (TD & Co.) is an independent investment research firm and broker/dealer located in Richmond, Virginia with an additional office in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The firm is a member of FINRA and the SIPC. TD & Co. provides unbiased, original research and services to institutional and retail investors. They do not perform research on companies for investment banking opportunities. TD & Co. also offers a full-range of financial services ranging from financial planning and private money management to corporate and municipal bonds. TD & Co.'s research team employs a focused methodology. They seek to identified, under followed, undervalued growth companies. The firm uses computer screens that look for companies with sequential revenue and earnings growth and strong balance sheets that are selling at a discount to their growth rates. Specifically, TD& Co. looks for companies with several characteristics: (1) 20% + revenue and earnings growth (2) sequential revenue and earnings growth, i.e., quarter over quarter improvement in both the top and bottom line (3) top management is buying the company's stock in the open market with their own money (4) significant management ownership of the stock (5) strong balance sheets with little or no debt or manageable declining debt, strong cash position or debt reduction efforts (6) operating in a growing market sector (no deep cyclicals or natural resource sectors) (7) gross margin expansion and market share gains and (8) selling at a discount to the company growth rate, allowing for p/e expansion toward growth rate.

Agincourt Capital Management LLC (Agincourt) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Richmond, Virginia. The firm was founded in 1999 by the entire fixed income investment team of what was Sovran Capital Management. In 2020, they became a subsidiary of Guardian Capital LLC, a subsidiary of Guardian Capital Group Ltd. (TSX: GCG) in Canada. Agincourt provides customized fixed income investment advisory services to pension and profit-sharing plans, state or municipal government entities, charitable organizations, corporations or business entities, and insurance companies. They also have a small number of trusts, estates, or individuals as fixed income clients. The firm acts as a sub-adviser for fixed income mutual funds.

Cambridge Associates LLC is a privately-held, SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. The firm was founded in 1973 by James Bailey and Henry Lewis. Cambridge Associates provides investment management and advisory services to colleges and universities, foundations and other non-profit institutions. They also act as an investment adviser to private clients, family offices, corporations, healthcare institutions, insurance groups, pension plans and ERISA pools and public and government-related groups.

Northbank Capital Management LLC provides investment advice. The private company is based in Ketchum, ID. The company was founded in 2021 by Bradford Spencer Seagraves. Bradford Spencer Seagraves has been the CEO since 2021.

Penn Station, Inc. franchises and operates a chain of restaurants. It offers chicken teriyaki, pizzas, baked cookies, oven-roasted turkey breast, and chicken and tuna salad. The company was founded by Jeff Osterfeld in 1985 and is headquartered in Milford, OH.

Thompson Davis & Co., Inc. (Investment Management), do-business-as Thompson Davis Asset Management (TDAM), is the investment management division of Thompson Davis & Co., Inc., a broker/dealer firm headquartered in Richmond, Virginia. TDAM was founded in 2002 and provides discretionary investment supervisory and management services to individuals, corporations or other business entities, trusts, estates, charitable organizations, and retirement plans.

The Community Foundation, Inc. operates as a community foundation that provides stewardship services for endowments. The firm works with donors and partner organizations to address needs through grant making, leadership and community development programs. It administers charitable grant-making funds established by individuals and corporations for the purpose of benefiting non-profit community organizations. The company was founded in 1968 and is headquartered in Richmond, VA.