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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.

Asklepios BioPharmaceutical, Inc. operates as a gene therapy-based company. It engages in capsid development, scaled manufacturing, and a portfolio of therapeutic programs. The company was founded by Richard Jude Samulski, Xiao Xiao, and Sheila A. Mikhail in 2001 and is headquartered in Durham, NC.

Cassel Salpeter & Co. LLC operates as an independent investment banking firm that provides advice services. It offers mergers and acquisitions, valuations, fairness & solvency, re-structuring, advisory services and capital raising services to the banks and commercial finance companies. The company was founded by James S. Cassel and Scott E. Salpeter in 2010 and is headquartered in Miami, FL.

Harvard University engages in the provision of teaching and research. It has twelve degree-granting Schools in addition to the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, offering a global education. The university was founded in 1636 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

TBWA Chiat/Day, Inc. operates as an advertising company. Its services include design, digital, retail activation and theater, sports sponsorship, cause related marketing, custom publishing, mobile utility, event marketing and brand amplification. The company was founded in 1968 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

TBWA Worldwide, Inc. provides advertising services. It operates such brands as AUDITOIRE, BEING, Digital Arts Network (DAN), eg+ worldwide, The Integer Group®, TBWA\Media Arts Lab and TBWA\WorldHealth. TBWA's global clients include Accenture, adidas, Apple, Energizer, Gatorade, GoDaddy, Henkel, McDonald's, Michelin, Nissan, Pernod Ricard, Pfizer, Standard Chartered Bank, Singapore Airlines, Sotheby's and Vichy. The company was founded by William G. Tragos, in 1970 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Wells Rich Greene BDDP is a paid media advertising concern. The private company is based in Houston, TX and has subsidiaries in United States.

Gordian Group LLC provides financial advisory services. It offers financial advisory, merges and acquisitions, structured finance, access to capital, litigation support, financial options and asset management. The company was founded by Patricia A. Caldwell and Henry Furlow Owsley III in 1998 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

B. Riley Securities, Inc. is a registered broker/dealer headquartered in Los Angeles, California. The firm is a subsidiary of B. Riley Securities Holdings LLC, ultimately owned by B. Riley Financial, Inc. (NASDAQ: RILY). The firm was formed in 2017, when B. Riley Financial, Inc. merged two of their brokers, B. Riley & Co. (founded in 1997) and FBR Capital Markets & Co. (founded in 1989), under the name of B. Riley FBR, Inc. B. Riley Securities provides research and trading ideas to institutional clients and high net-worth individuals. They provide investment banking services to a wide range of middle-market private and public companies.

Volkswagen Group UK Ltd. imports and distributes Volkswagen vehicles and automotive parts. It also provides support services to its retailers and customers. The company was founded in 1952 and is headquartered in Milton Keynes, the United Kingdom.

Unruly Group LLC provides mobile video advertising services. It offers video ad units, tablet ad units, display ad units, rich media ads and interactivity options. The company was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

The Association of the Bar of the City of New York is a voluntary association of lawyers and law students. The organization was founded in 1870 and it is headquartered in New York, NY

The American Bankruptcy Institute is a professional association. The non-profit company is based in Alexandria, VA. The company was founded by Richard A. Gitlin.

Open Space Institute, Inc. engages in protecting land. It protects scenic, natural and historic landscapes to provide public enjoyment, conserve habitat and working lands and sustain communities. The company was founded in 1974 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Bacchus Capital Management LLC (Bacchus Capital Management) is a private equity firm founded in 2007 by Sam Bronfman, Peter S. Kaufman and Henry F. Owsley. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California with additional offices in New York.

Morris Animal Foundation operates as an animal health charity. It helps support the advancement of veterinary medicine and funds veterinary research for companion animals, horses, and wildlife. The company was founded by Mark Morris Sr. in 1948 and is headquartered in Denver, CO.

Northside Center for Child Development, Inc. provides children development services. It offers behavioral, mental health, education and enrichment programs to children and families living in poverty. The company was founded by Mamie Phipps Clark and Kenneth B. Clark in 1946 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

International Crane Foundation, Inc. operates as a conservation organization that works to conserve cranes and the ecosystems, watersheds, and flyways. The company was founded by Ronald Sauey, Forrest Hartmann and George Archibald in 1971 and is headquartered in Baraboo, WI.

Sbragia Family Vineyards LLC engages in the production of red and white wine. The company was founded by Edward G. Sbragia in 2001 and is headquartered in Geyserville, CA.

Vividion Therapeutics, Inc. operates as a biotechnology company. The company focuses on developing innovative therapeutics that treat major unmet clinical needs using the first platform for proteome wide drug and target discovery. It's proprietary chemoproteomic platform technology addresses the key limitations of conventional screening techniques and allows the discovery of previously unknown, or cryptic, functional pockets on the surface of proteins and identification of small molecules that selectively bind to those targets. The company was founded by Benjamin F. Cravatt, Phil S. Baran, Jin-Quan Yu and John K. Clarke on December 24, 2013 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Agenovir Corp. provides research and developing novel antiviral therapeutics for diseases. The company was founded by Bruce Hironaka and Stephen R. Quake and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

CytoDel LLC is engaged in biotechnology services. Its products include Ctyo-111, first botulism antidote and Cyto-012, musculoskeletal and aesthetic medicine. The company was founded by Philip A. Band, Konstantin Ichtchenko and Edwin Vazquez Cintron in 2012 and is headquartered in New York City, NY.

Anthesis Consulting Group Ltd. provides consulting services. The firm specializes in product and supply chain management – including circular economy methodology, waste and resource management, global chemical management, supply chain design and implementation, and sustainable procurement. The company is headquartered in Oxford, the United Kingdom.