Martina Welkhoff

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.

Fidelity Management & Research Co. (FMR) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. The firm was founded in 1946 and is a subsidiary of FMR LLC, also known as Fidelity Investments. FMR provides investment supervisory services, which include sub-advisory services, to Fidelity's family of mutual funds and exchange-traded funds, qualified tuition programs, privately offered unregistered investment funds, separately managed account clients, and various other institutional accounts.

Northeast Investment Management, Inc. (NIM) is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. The firm was founded in 1984 by William Oates and Ernest Monrad. NIM provides investment advisory services on a discretionary and non-discretionary basis to individuals, families, trustees, executors, personal representatives, family offices, charitable institutions and small businesses.

Westfield Capital Management Co. LP (Westfield) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. The firm was founded in 1989 and is majority-owned by WMS Management LLC. Westfield provides quality investment management services to institutions and wealthy individuals.

Fresche Solutions, Inc. provides legacy management and IT modernization services. It designs, develops, markets and supports software solutions. The firm also designs application portfolio management, business intelligence and enterprise application development solutions. The company was founded in 1976 and is headquartered in Montreal, Canada.

Founded in 1985, NatWest Markets Securities, Inc. is a financial services and brokerage firm headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut. The firm is a subsidiary of RBS Holdings USA, Inc. and their ultimate parent is the Royal Bank of Scotland Plc (LSE: RBS). The firm was formerly known as RBS Securities, Inc., RBS Greenwich Capital, and Greenwich Capital Markets, Inc. NatWest is an institutional fixed-income firm that provides a full range of debt capital markets services to both those seeking to raise capital and those seeking to invest it. The firm is an industry leader in the U.S. Treasury, agency and MBS markets and in providing real estate and asset-backed financing to their clients. NatWest also provides futures brokerage services and trade strategies to select clients.

Jefferies LLC is a global investment bank and institutional securities firm headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1962 and is a subsidiary of Jefferies Group LLC, ultimately held by Jefferies Financial Group, Inc. (NYSE: JEF). Jefferies provides corporate clients with research and execution services in equity, fixed income, and foreign exchange markets, as well as a full range of investment banking services such as underwriting, mergers and acquisitions, restructuring and recapitalization, and other advisory services, with all businesses operating in the Americas, Europe and Asia.

Hamlin Capital Management LLC (Hamlin) is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor and wealth management firm headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded by Mark Stitzer in 2001. Hamlin provides customized investment advisory services to separately managed accounts, pooled investment vehicles, and the Hamlin High Dividend Equity Fund, an open-end management investment company.

Riverside Partners LLC /New York/ (Riverside Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 1988 by Bela Szigethy. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts with additional offices across the globe.

Moody's Investors Service, Inc. is a credit rating and investment research firm headquartered in New York City. They are a subsidiary of Moody's Corp. (NYSE: MCO). The firm performs international financial research and analysis on commercial and government entities and provides a variety of analytic tools for assessing credit risk. Their clients include creditors, investment banks and commercial banks.

Clarion Partners LLC / Private Equity is a Private Equity firm, a subsidiary of Clarion Partners LLC founded in 1982 by Steve J. Furnary and Frank L. Sullivan. Clarion Partners LLC / Private Equity is headquartered in New York.

North Atlantic Capital Corp. (North Atlantic Capital) is a private equity/venture capital firm founded by David Coit in 1986. The firm is headquartered in Portland, Maine.

Indus Capital Partners LLC (Indus) is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 2000 by David Kowitz, Sheldon Kasowitz and Byron Gill. Indus provides investment supervisory and management services on a discretionary basis primarily to commingled private investments funds and institutional clients.

Environmental Defense Fund, Inc. operates as a non-profit organization, which works to forge practical solutions that help nature and people prosper sustainably. It launched the Smart Boat Initiative (SBI) which focuses on leveraging the technological advances and plummeting costs in sensors, artificial intelligence, broadband communication and data analytics to equip and surround fishing vessels of all sizes with digital tools and infrastructure that can increase sustainability, accountability, profitability and transparency in fishing. The company was founded by Arthur P. Cooley, Charles F. Wurster and Dennis Puleston in 1967 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Montefiore Medical Center engages in the provision of healthcare, clinical and surgical services. It offers treatments including cardiology and cardiac surgery, cancer care, tissue and organ transplantation, children’s health, women’s health, surgery and the surgical subspecialties. The company was founded in 1884 and is headquartered in Bronx, NY.

Brookstone Partners (Brookstone Partners) is a private equity firm founded by Michael Toporek in 2002. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Glouston Capital Partners LLC (Glouston Capital Partners) is a private equity subsidiary of Permal Capital Holdings LLC founded in 1990. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Breakaway Ventures LLC (Breakaway Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2006 by Dennis Baldwin. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Fellers, Inc. is a company based in Tulsa, OK. Fellers, Inc. specializes in vinyl products and offers a vinyl superstore accessible through their website. The company was founded in 1986 by Frank Fellers and is currently led by CEO Tom Brophy.

Part of Malee Group Public Co. Ltd., Malee Enterprise Co. Ltd. is a Thai company that wholesales food products. The company is based in Pathumthani, Thailand. Roongchat Boonyarat has been the CEO of the company since 2013.

Runa Capital Management Ltd. (Runa Capital Management) is venture capital subsidiary of Runa Capital Sarl founded in 2010 by Serguei Beloussov, Alexander Galitsky and Dmitry Chikhachev. The firm is headquartered in Luxembourg City, LU.

Great Diamond Partners LLC (GDP) is an independent registered investment advisor and wealth management firm headquartered in Portland, Maine. The firm was founded by Steven E. Tenney in 2019. GDP provides investment consulting services to sophisticated clients and their families.

League Park Advisors LLC provides investment banking services. The firm assists the middle market companies with transactions that generate value through mergers and acquisitions, recapitalizations, capital raising and outsourced corporate development. The firm also offers tailored programs for acquisitive corporations, including strategic guidance, targeted marketing and sophisticated deal-closing capabilities. The company was founded by J. W. Sean Dorsey in 2010 and is headquartered in Cleveland, OH.

American Pacific Group LP (American Pacific Group) is a private equity firm founded by Fraser Preston in 2019. The firm is headquartered in Larkspur, California.

RIA in a Box LLC provides compliance business consulting services. The firm focuses on registration and ongoing compliance for registered investment advisory firms at both the state and SEC levels. Its services include distinction and loss statements, change sheets, broad ledgers and contract journals using QuickBooks to emanate and sustain the inner books vital to encounter state and SEC correspondence standards. The company was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Concisys LLC is a high-tech electronic assembly company that specializes in handling complex circuit card assembly technologies using state-of-the-art equipment and manufacturing processes. The company is based in San Diego, CA and was founded in 2000 by Giao Huu Nguyen. The company offers test engineering and support for their customers' products and use their long-term supplier network and purchasing power to minimize lead times and hold down costs.

Silver Lake Management Co. LLC (Silver Lake Management) is a private equity firm, a subsidiary of Silver Lake Group LLC founded in 1999 by Jim Davidson and David Roux. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California with offices in San Francisco, New York, London, Hong Kong and Singapore.

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).