Zachary Abrams

Bear, Stearns & Co., Inc. is a global investment banking, securities trading and brokerage firm located in New York City with additional offices in Dallas, Boston and San Francisco. The firm is a subsidiary Bear Sterns Cos., Inc. (NYSE: BSC). Their equity research team consists of senior analysts located throughout the world. In addition to domestic coverage, they have research teams focusing on Latin America, Asia and Europe. The analysts use a bottom-up approach to stock selection. The Bear Stearns fixed-income research department provides coverage of every sector of the fixed-income universe. The financial analytics and structured transactions group (F.A.S.T) provides investment research, fixed-income portfolio management and analytical systems, trading technology and general financial expertise. The group also provides a broad range of services to financial institutions including asset-liability management, balance sheet restructuring, receivables-based financing analysis, security and portfolio analysis, peer analysis, and historical and real-time market-based information.

General Electric Capital Corp. provides financial products and services. Its services include commercial loans and leases, fleet management, financial programs, credit cards, personal loans, and other financial services. The firm’s solutions include energy finance and aviation finance. The company was founded in 1943 and is headquartered in Norwalk, CT.

GE Asset Management, Inc. is a mutual fund manager and registered investment advisor located in Stamford, Connecticut. The firm is a wholly-owned subsidiary of General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE). GE Asset Management provides investment management services to institutional and retail investors. The firm also offers a family of mutual funds designed to meet a wide variety of investment needs.

Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. provided wealth management, securities trading and sales, corporate finance and investment banking services. Merrill Lynch was a global trader and underwriter of securities and derivatives across a range of asset classes and serve as a strategic advisor to governments, institutions and individuals worldwide. The company was founded in 1913 and was headquartered in Charlotte, NC.

SonicWALL, Inc. provided intelligent network security and data protection solutions. The firm offers super massive series, NSA, wireless access point and WXA Series products. It offers network security, wireless network, email, virtual security, secure VPN, voice over IP solutions, The company was founded in 1991 by Sudhakar Ravi and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Altierre Corp. provides wireless technology. It also offers ultra-low power long-range wireless technology for the Internet of Things (IoT) and innovative applications transforms multi-year battery life wireless devices to seamlessly and securely communicate in large retail stores at the shelf edge or mobile racks. The firm caters supply chains, manufacturing, automotive, homes and defense sectors. The company was founded by Sunit Saxena and Anurag Goel in 2003 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Lake Street Capital LLC (Lake Street Capital) is a private equity firm founded in 2003. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Part of Fidelity National Information Services, Inc., Applied Financial Technology is a company that provides a complete set of prepayment modeling and historical performance analysis tools for customized applications. The company is based in San Francisco, CA. The company can create tailor-made prepayment models to fit any data. Applied Financial Technology was acquired by Fidelity National Information Services, Inc. on June 25, 2007.