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Harris Associates LP (Harris) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. The firm was founded in 1976 and is a direct subsidiary of Natixis Investment Managers LLC, which is ultimately owned by BCPE’s Natixis SA (Natixis) (PAR: KN), a French investment banking and financial services firm. Harris primarily provides discretionary investment advisory services to individuals and institutions, including registered investment companies. The firm also provides investment advisory services to wrap programs, mutual funds, private investment partnerships and other pooled investment vehicles.

Geneva Capital Management LLC (Geneva) is SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The firm was founded by William Priebe and Amy Croen in 1987. They were acquired by GCM Purchaser LLC, which is ultimately owned by Geneva Management LLC. Geneva offers discretionary and non-discretionary portfolio management services to institutions and high-net-worth individuals.

Seaport Global Securities LLC is a full service investment bank, capital markets advisory and research platform headquartered in New York City with offices across the US and in Europe. They are a subsidiary of Seaport Global Holdings LLC. The firm offers access to a broad selection of fixed income and equity products, as well as the market intelligence to provide insight to dynamic opportunities for its clients. Seaport Global Securities provides clients access to innovative trading solutions, competitive rates, quality execution, and superior service. Their equity trading team focuses on identifying liquidity in US, Canadian and European markets. The fixed income distribution platform covers all areas of the credit spectrum.

Adams Street Partners LLC (Adams Street Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 1972 by George H Spencer and Shahab Rashid. The firm is headquartered in Chicago, IL, with offices in Austin, Beijing, Boston, London, Menlo Park, Munich, New York, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney and Tokyo.

Deloitte & Touche LLP engages in the provision of audit, advisory, financial advisory, tax, and consulting services. The company was founded on March 7, 1995 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

RSM US LLP engages in the provision of accounting services. It offers audit, tax, consulting, and wealth management services. The firm serves the energy, government, life sciences, manufacturing, private equity, and real estate and construction industries. The company was founded by Ira B. McGladrey in 1926 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

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.

Fitch Ratings, Inc. is a global rating agency and investment research firm headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded by John Knowles in 1913 as Fitch Publishing Co. They are a subsidiary of Fitch Group, Inc., ultimately owned by The Hearst Family Trust. Fitch Ratings seeks to provide independent and prospective credit opinions, research and data to the world's credit markets. Their approach is based on a foundation of local market experience that covers capital markets in over 150 countries. The firm's ratings analysis and rating decisions are based on established criteria, methodologies and ratings definitions which they apply in a consistent manner. Fitch Ratings provides coverage of the following markets: Economics, Banks, Insurance, Sovereigns, Corporates, Structured Finance, Public Finance – International, Public Finance – US, Infrastructure & Project, and Finance.

Barrington Research Associates, Inc. (Barrington Research) is a full-service investment firm and broker-dealer headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. The firm was founded by Alex P. Paris in 1983. Barrington Research provides investment research, institutional sales & trading, corporate & executive services, investment banking and asset management services to institutional and corporate clients.

Ativo Capital Management LLC (Ativo) is a SEC-registered investment adviser headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. Formerly known as Callard Asset Management LLC, the firm was founded by Ricardo Bekin in 2001 and is a direct subsidiary of Ativo Holdings LLC. Ativo offers a variety of long-only equity strategies to individual and institutional clients as separately managed accounts.

Part of A.P. Møller-Mærsk A/S, Maersk India Pvt Ltd is an Indian company that provides shipping and logistics services. The company is based in Kolkata, India.

Mesirow Financial Private Equity, Inc. (Mesirow Financial Private Equity) is a private equity subsidiary of Mesirow Financial Holdings, Inc. founded in 1982. The firm is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

Mercedes-Benz USA LLC distributes and markets and Mercedes-Benz products in the United States. It offers sedans, coupes, SUV's and wagons and convertibles and roadsters. The firm also offers maybach, smart, and sprinter products. It has offices in Irvine, Jacksonville, Montvale, Parsippany and Rosemont. The company was founded by Karl Benz, Emil Jellinek, Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach in 1965 and is headquartered in Montvale, NJ.

Oxeon Investments LLC (Oxeon Investments) is a venture capital firm founded in 2011 by Trevor Price. The firm is headquartered in New York with additional offices in Seattle, Washington and Nashville, Tennessee.

eVariant, Inc. is a healthcare consumer and physician engagement company, which engages in the development of software for data analytics. It combines digital marketing solutions, big data and analytics into a unified platform and this allows healthcare organizations to identify opportunities, measure marketing campaigns against reportable ROI and improve patient, physician and employer engagement. Its services include project planning and management, system configuration and deployment, process improvement and re-engineering, healthcare data migration and conversion, reporting, and optimizations and enhancements. The company was founded by William Moschella, Ryan Hubbard and A. Robert Grant in October 2008 and is headquartered in Farmington, CT.

Founded in 2000 by John Abbott, 451 Research LLC is a technology-industry syndicated research and data firm focused on the business of enterprise IT innovation. The firm is headquartered in New York City. 451 Research is a division of The 451 Group, a leading global analyst and data company. 451 Research's market-segment coverage is focused, organized and delivered through comprehensive Practice Areas available via subscription. These areas include: CloudScape (CS), Eco-Efficient IT (ECO-IT), Eco-Efficient IT (ECO-IT), Enterprise Security (ESP), Internet Infrastructure Services (IIS), Infrastructure Computing for Enterprise (ICE), Information Management (IM) and Multi-Tenant Datacenter (MTDC).

ICICI Prudential Life Insurance Co. Ltd. (Investment Portfolio) (ICICI Pru) is the insurance management division of ICICI Prudential Life Insurance Co. Ltd., itself a subsidiary of ICICI Bank Ltd. (NSE: ICICIBANK, BOM: 532174; ADR: IBN) in India. The firm was founded in 2001 as a joint venture between ICICI Bank Ltd. and Great Britain’s Prudential plc. Headquartered in Mumbai, ICICI Pru manages the parent company's investment portfolio.

Nuveen Asset Management LLC (NAM) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. The firm was founded in 2011 and is a subsidiary of Nuveen Fund Advisors LLC, which is ultimately owned by TIAA Board of Governors. NAM provides investment advisory and sub-advisory services to a broad range of individual and institutional clients, such as open-end and closed-end investment companies and other pooled investment vehicles.

Solstice Consulting LLC provides information technology (IT) services. It specializes in mobile technologies, IT development, security solutions, and infrastructure services to organizations. The firm also advises organizations on the use of emerging technologies and approaches that optimize engagements with their employees, customers, and partners. The company was founded by John Schwan in 2001 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

White Pine Insurance Co. provides the producing agents with a stable market of products and premiums regardless of industry volatility. They pride themselves on exceptional service to their producers and insureds and in reviewing risks on an individual underwriter to underwriter basis.

Cleveland Research Co. (CRC) is an investment research firm headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio. The firm was founded in 2006 by Eric Bosshard and Chris Byke. They are a subsidiary of Cleveland Research Management Co. LLC. CRC offers high-quality equity and market research for institutional clients. They provide insight and detailed analysis into the largest companies and sectors across five primary industries: Technology, Consumer, Healthcare, Agricultural and Industrial.

Elevate Ventures, Inc (Elevate Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2010. The firm is headquartered in Indianapolis.

Watershed Private Wealth LLC (WPW) is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor and wealth management firm headquartered in Oak Brook, Illinois. The firm was co-founded by Brendan G. Moody and Joshi Koneru in 2021. WPW offers investment management services to individual investors.

Protagonist Management LLC (Protagonist) is a venture capital firm founded in 2022 by George D Bousis, George Ruan and Harry Hurst. The firm is headquartered in Miami, Florida.