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Truist Bank provides financial services. Its services include banking, lending, insurance, trust, and wealth management solutions. The firm offers services to businesses, public agencies, local governments, and individuals. The company was founded in 1872 and is headquartered in Winston-Salem, NC.

USBX Advisory Services LLC provides investment advisory services. It is an investment banking firm that provides mergers and acquisitions advisory services including sales and divestiture, management buyouts, and recapitalization's. The company also offers private placement's in equity, subordinate debt, and growth capital. USBX Advisory Services was founded by John E. Mack III in April 2000 and is located in Santa Monica, CA.

Founded in 1997, Imperial Capital LLC is a full-service investment banking firm and broker/dealer headquartered in Los Angeles. The firm is a subsidiary of Imperial Capital Group LLC and their ultimate parent is Imperial Capital Group Holdings LLC. Imperial Capital offers a range of proprietary products and services to institutional investors, middle-market companies and private equity firms. The firm provides institutional clients research and sales and trading of high yield and distressed debt securities, bank debt, convertible bonds, preferred stocks, and equities. They also provide middle-market companies and financial sponsors with capital markets, M&A, capital structure, restructuring and recapitalization advisory services. For their institutional clients, Imperial Capital offers a variety of research products including bank debt, investment grade debt, high yield, distressed and special situations, convertibles and busted convertibles, equities, preferred securities and industry analysis. Imperial Capital's research focuses on the following sectors: aerospace, defense and government services; airlines/transportation; business services; clean energy; consumer; energy; financial services; gaming and leisure; general industrials; healthcare; homebuilding and real estate; media and telecommunications; security and homeland security; and technology.

Founded in 1996, E*TRADE Securities LLC is a broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm is a subsidiary of E*TRADE Financial Corp. (NYSE: ET). The firm provides a full array of trading and execution services for their clients. They do not provide any internal research. The firm is a member of the NASD and the SIPC.

Rollcast Energy, Inc. develops, owns and operates renewable power plants that use wood or biomass fuel. Its services include permitting, design, contracting, financing, construction management and asset management. The company was founded on March 21, 2005 and is headquartered in Charlotte, NC.

Global Strategies Group provides security and risk mitigation services. It delivers national security initiatives in counter-terrorism, counter-narcotics, borders security, and peacekeeping operations. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in London, UK

Pamlico Capital Management LP (Pamlico Capital) is a private equity firm founded in 1988 by Frederick W. Eubank II, Watts L. Hamrick III and Scott Bullock Perper. The firm is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Duke University is an academic university that offers undergraduate, graduate and professional programs. It also has publications and research services. The university was founded in 1838 and is headquartered in Durham, NC.

BAE Systems, Inc. provides support and service solutions for defense, intelligence and civilian systems. The firm offers ship repair, maintenance, modernization, conversion and overhaul services for the U.S. Navy, government, commercial and private customers. It operates full-service shipyards in Alabama, Florida, California, Virginia and Hawaii. The company was founded on November 30, 1999 and is headquartered in Arlington, VA.

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.

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.

Society for Corporate Governance, Inc. engages in providing advisory services and providing professional development and education through seminars and conferences in corporate governance area. The company was founded in 1946 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

North Carolina Association of Certified Public Accountants, Inc. provides financial services. It offers curriculum for professional education, student recruitment efforts, financial literacy, and the annual CPA day of service.

The State Bar of Georgia is an organization that provides resources and support for lawyers in the state of Georgia. The organization is based in Atlanta, GA and offers programs such as committees, sections, and a lawyer assistance program. The private company's website offers a variety of services, including a member directory, legal aid resources, and virtual law museum. Additionally, they offer a comprehensive law library called Fastcase, which is a free member benefit for lawyers. The State Bar of Georgia also recommends Member Benefits, Inc. as a broker for members' health, dental, and vision insurance, as well as other approved products.

Red Moon Marketing LLC provides advertising and marketing services including product promotion, public relations and event management as well as sports and entertainment marketing. It also offers marketing research, brand promotion, event marketing, branding, visual communication, interactive and digital media services. The company was founded by James E. Bailey in 2002 and is headquartered in Charlotte, NC.

The Acacia Group (Acacia Group) is a private equity firm founded in 2016 by Frederic Cassis, Craig Dawson, Matt Milstead and Gavin Long. The firm is headquartered in Tysons, Virginia.

Plexus Capital LLC (Plexus Capital) is a private equity firm founded in 2005 by Kel Landis. The firm headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Historic Wilmington Foundation is a Non-Profit Organization. It protects and preserves the irreplaceable architectural and historical resources of the Lower Cape Fear region. The company programs include Revolving Fund and Easements, Preservation Resources Network, Legacy Architectural Salvage, Tar Heels Go Walking and Preservation for Profit & Live in a Landmark Workshop Series. Historic Wilmington Foundation was founded in 1966 and is headquartered in Wilmington, NC.

Project Development Services, Inc. provides project management services. It acts as a developer, a project manager, or an owner’s representative for hotel development and renovation projects. The company was founded by Ralph C. Engelberger and Angeline Fife in 2001 and is headquartered in Atlanta, GA.

Wells Fargo Securities LLC (WFS) is the broker/dealer subsidiary of EVEREN Capital Corp., ultimately owned by Wells Fargo & Co. (NYSE: WFC). Headquartered in New York, WFS delivers a comprehensive suite of banking, capital markets and advisory solutions, such as a full complement of sales, trading and research capabilities, to corporate, government and institutional clients.

Lender Performance Group LLC engages in the provision of software for modernizing commercial banking. It offers Andi skills builder, and trust and security solutions. Its features include solving the target, prediction, cross-selling, privacy and security governance, application security, compliance certificate and memberships, and data center and network security. The company was founded by Carl Ryden, Gregory H. Upham, Kenneth V. Garcia, and Mitchell Epstein in 2009 and is headquartered in Charlotte, NC.

Wells Fargo Clearing Services LLC (WFCS) is a SEC-registered investment advisor and wealth management firm headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri. The firm was founded 1852 and formerly known as Wells Fargo Advisors LLC. They are a subsidiary of Wachovia Securities Financial Holdings LLC, a non-bank indirect subsidiary of Wells Fargo & Co. (NYSE: WFC), a financial and bank holding company. Wells Fargo Advisors is a trade name used by Wells Fargo Advisors Financial Network LLC and Wells Fargo Clearing Services LLC. WFCS provides investment advisory services to individuals, pension or profit-sharing plans, trusts, estates or charitable organizations, corporations or other business entities, governmental entities and educational institutions, as well as banks or thrift institutions. The firm also acts as portfolio manager for certain wrap fee advisory programs.

Tilia Fiduciary Partners, Inc. (TFP) is an independent registered investment advisor headquartered in Wilmington, North Carolina. The firm was founded by Walker L. Abney in 2011. TFP provides limited financial planning, portfolio management and general consulting services to individuals, trusts, estates, pooled investment vehicles, and pension and profit-sharing plans.

Emerson Collective Investments LLC (Emerson Collective) is a venture capital firm founded in 2004 by Laurene Powell Jobs. The firm is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

Corrum Capital Management LLC (Corrum Capital) is an independent private equity firm founded in 2013 by Jason Cipriani and Jonathan Mandle. The firm is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Civitas Group LLC provides advisory and consulting services. It offers strategy and management consulting, mergers and acquisition support and due diligence and cyber security services. The firm provides a range of strategic consulting services to senior corporate executives and due diligence support to investors. The company was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Washington, DC.