John Schwall

IEX Group, Inc. operates an online trading platform for registered broker dealers. It operates as equity trading venue owned by a consortium of buy-side investors, including mutual funds, hedge funds, and family offices. The firm provides balanced marketplace via simplified market structure design and cutting-edge technology. It also offers a fair-access platform to broker dealer. The IEX ATS is a fully automated electronic order book for orders to buy and sell national market system equity securities with a continuous, automated matching function. The company was founded by Ronan Ryan, Bradley Katsuyama, Robert Park and John Schwall in 2012 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Part of Royal Bank of Canada, RBC Capital Markets, Inc. provides investment advice. The company is based in Albany, NY.

Grant Thornton LLP provides accounting, tax and business consulting services. It offers advisory, business consulting, business risk, enterprise technology and innovation, transaction services, data analytics, cyber risk, and data integrity services. The firm serves the construction, real estate and hospitality, consumer and industrial products, energy, financial services, health care and life sciences, not for profit organizations, private equity, public sector, and technology industries. The company was founded in 1924 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Founded in 1958, Merrill Lynch Piece Fenner & Smith, Inc. is an SEC registered broker/dealer located in New York City. The firm is a subsidiary of BAC North America Holding Co. and their ultimate parent is Bank of America Corp. (NYSE BAC).