Philip J. Brendel

BlackRock Advisors LLC is a SEC-registered investment advisor and mutual fund manager headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1994 and is a subsidiary of BlackRock Capital Holdings, Inc., ultimately held by BlackRock, Inc. (NYSE: BLK). BlackRock Advisors manages assets for US-registered investment companies and 529 Plans.

Tudor Investment Corp. (TIC) is an independent, SEC-registered investment adviser and hedge fund manager headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut. The firm was founded in 1980 by Paul T. Jones, II. TIC provides discretionary investment advisory services to various hedge funds, private equity funds and managed accounts. Investors in these funds generally include high-net worth individuals and related entities, sovereign entities, pension funds, non-financial corporates, financial institutions, endowments and foundations, fund-of-fund vehicles and proprietary capital from current and former personnel.

Bell Laboratories provides research and development services. It provides communications technologies including transistors, digital networking, signal processing, lasers and fiber-optic communications systems, communication satellites, cellular telephony, electronic switching of calls, touch-tone dialing and modems. The company was founded in 1925 and is headquartered in Murray Hill, NJ.

KLS Diversified Asset Management LP (KLS) is a SEC-registered investment advisor and hedge fund management firm founded in 2007 by Harry Lengsfield, Jeffrey Kronthal and John Steinhardt. Headquartered in New York City, the firm is a subsidiary of KLS Partners LLC. KLS provides discretionary investment advisory services (i) for private investment funds and separately managed accounts, (ii) to the manager of two registered investment companies sponsored by Principal Funds, Inc., and (iii) to a “sub-fund” of an undertaking for collective investment in transferable securities authorized in accordance with the UCITS Directive.