Kevin Kane

Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc. (DBSI) is a SEC-registered broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1971 and is a wholly-owned investment banking and brokerage arm of DB U.S. Financial Markets Holding Corp., ultimately held by Deutsche Bank AG (NYSE: DB, FRA: DBK) in Germany. DBSI provides securities brokerage and investment advisory services to domestic and international private clients and institutions. They are also a primary dealer in US government securities as designated by the Federal Reserve.

McGraw-Hill Ryerson Ltd. publishes and distributes educational and professional products in both print and non-print media. It operates through three divisions: Higher Education division, School division and Professional division. The Higher Education Division serves the university, community college, and career college market. This Division publishes and markets books and digital products and services primarily in the following disciplines: Business and Economics, Science, Math and Computer Science, Social Sciences and Humanities. The School Division serves the elementary and secondary school markets, primarily Grades 7-12. This Division publishes and markets books and digital products in the following fields: Mathematics, Science, Social Sciences, Literacy, English, Information Science and Special Education. The Professional Division markets and distributes books and digital products in the following categories: Business, Consumer, Education and Medical & Technical. These products are sold primarily to booksellers wholesalers and distributors, public, academic and research libraries, through special sales, and direct to professionals. The company was founded on August 22, 1944 and is headquartered in Whitby, Canada.

McGraw-Hill Education, Inc. publishes and distributes educational content, software and services. The firm operates through four segments: Higher Education, K-12, International and Professional. The higher education segment relates to the development of product across all disciplines, the K-12 segment relates to content development and the international segment relates to locally developed products or adaptations and translations of existing higher education, K-12 and professional products in both digital and print format. The professional segment relates to new titles and revisions, similar to the higher education segment, and include activities related to the creation of the actual product. The company was founded by James Hill McGraw in 1888 and is headquartered in New York, NY.