Jon Shapiro

Kovitz Investment Group Partners LLC (Kovitz) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. In January 2016, the firm underwent an organizational change to carry on the advisory business of its predecessor, Kovitz Investment Group LLC, which was founded in October 2003, after their owners left Rothschild Investment Corp. They are now direct, wholly owned subsidiary of Focus Operating LLC, ultimately held by Focus Financial Partners, Inc. (NASDAQ: FOCS). Kovitz provides investment management, wealth management, and financial planning services to individual and institutional clients. Their institutional clients include endowments, employee benefit (ERISA) plans, corporations, and other entities.

Chicago Capital Partners Management LLC (Chicago Capital Partners) is a private equity subsidiary of Kovitz Investment Group LLC founded in 2011. The firm is headquartered in Highland Park, Illinois.

Founded in 2003, Kovitz Investment Group LLC is a registered investment advisor located in Chicago, Illinois.

Rothschild Investment Corp. (Rothschild) is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. The firm, originally known as Rothschild & Company, was founded in 1908 by Monroe Rothschild and his brother-in-law Samuel Karger. Rothschild provides highly personalized asset management services to their clients such as individuals, families, trusts and estates; high-net worth individuals; pension and profit-sharing plans, IRAs; charitable organizations and foundations; and corporations or other businesses.

Part of Prudential Financial, Inc., Vector Securities LLC is a company that provides investment banking services. The company is based in Deerfield, IL. Vector Securities was acquired by Prudential Securities on June 09, 1999.

Towers Perrin, Inc. provides management consulting services. It offers actuarial consulting, executive compensation, financial modeling, reinsurance, health, and welfare consulting services. The company offers solutions to client issues in the areas of human resource strategy, design, and management. Towers Perrin was founded in 1934 and is headquartered in Stamford, CT.

KPMG LLP engages in the provision of audit, tax, and advisory services. It serves the banking and capital markets, building, construction and real estate, consumer and retail, energy, natural resources and chemicals, financial services, government and public sector, healthcare and life sciences, industrial manufacturing, insurance, media and entertainment, private equity, technology, telecommunications, and venture capital industries. The company was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in New York, NY.