Melvin Gerst

1919 Investment Counsel LLC (1919ic) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland. The firm was founded in 2005 and is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Stifel Financial Corp. (NYSE: SF). On November 2014, Stifel acquired 1919ic from Legg Mason, Inc. Prior to and as a result of this acquisition, the firm changed their name from Legg Mason Investment Counsel LLC to 1919 Investment Counsel LLC. 1919ic provides comprehensive investment counsel services to both individual and institutional clients, and financial planning and family office services to individual clients.

Southern Methodist University is a private university near the center of Dallas, SMU offers undergraduate, graduate, and professional programs through seven schools in the humanities and sciences, business, the performing, visual, and communication arts, engineering, education and human development, law, and theology.

American Road & Transportation Builders Association is an association that focuses on growing transportation infrastructure. The private company is based in Washington. The CEO of the American company is Dave Bauer.

Gametime United, Inc. develops mobile application. The firm’s application enables users to buy and sell tickets for NBA, NHL, MLB, MLS, NCAA and NFL teams. The company was founded by Brad Griffith in 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Cognitive Scale, Inc. provides cognitive cloud platform. It provides services from all types of social, public, private and device data, and context signals. The company was founded by Matt Sanchez on October 2, 2013 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.