Amit Sharma

Morgan Stanley Investment Management, Inc. (MSIM) is an investment management firm headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1975 and is a subsidiary of Morgan Stanley Domestic Holdings, Inc., ultimately held by Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS). MSIM provides discretionary and non-discretionary investment management services and products to institutional clients and individual investors. The firm also advises clients as to the appropriate allocation of assets among multiple separate accounts and/or investment companies or other pooled vehicles that the firm advises.

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.

Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP provides legal services. The firm's practice areas encompasses corporate, executive compensation and benefits, international business, litigation, pro bono, tax, and trusts and estates. Its lawyers and associates' training focus on addressing and handling clients' legal issues, business transaction, and disputes. The company was founded in 1819 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

The Boston Bar Association is the largest legal network in Boston, MA. The non-profit company's focus is on justice, community, education, and inclusion. Membership is available for those interested in joining.

Virginia National Bank provides banking and financial services. The firm operates through two segments: The Commercial Bank and VNB Trust. The Commercial Bank segment involves making loans and generating deposits from individuals and businesses. The VNB Trust segment offers services, which include investment management, trust account administration and estate planning. It offers personal banking, business banking and treasury management services. The company was founded on July 29, 1998 and is headquartered in Charlottesville, VA.

Latham & Watkins LLP operates as a full-service law firm or legal matters. It offers services in the areas of finance, litigation, accounting, banking, life sciences, private equity, real estate, government relations, employment law, and outsourcing. The company was founded in 1934 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Bain & Co., Inc. provides management consulting services. It offers advisory services to the companies on their critical issues and opportunities: strategy, marketing, organization, operations, technology and mergers and acquisitions, across all industries and geographies. The company was founded in 1973 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

General Atlantic LLC (General Atlantic) is a private equity firm founded in 1980 by Charles F. Feeney. The firm is headquartered in New York.

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.

Harbor Group International LLC provides real estate management services. It also provides national and international real estate investment opportunities and profitable, superior risk adjusted returns while maintaining the highest standards of integrity. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered Norfolk, VA.

Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC is a registered broker-dealer subsidiary of Morgan Stanley Domestic Holdings, Inc., ultimately owned by Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) in the US. Headquartered in New York City, the firm was founded in 1987 and provides debt and equity services including underwriting, M&A advice, securities dealing and brokerage and trade execution. Their client base ranges from large global institutional investors to hedge funds at the cutting edge of innovation in the industry.

Maryland State Retirement & Pension System (SRPS) is the state-owned pension fund management firm headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland. Founded in 1982, the firm administers death, disability and retirement benefits on behalf of their members. These include active and former State employees, teachers, State police, judges, law enforcement. SRPS provides important coverage both during a member’s working career and after they retire.

GMT Capital Corp. is a private, SEC-registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. It was founded in 1993 by Thomas Claugus. The firm provides discretionary and non-discretionary investment advisory services to their advisory clients, which are private investment vehicles and separately managed accounts, by recommending, or managing and directing, the investment and reinvestment of their assets.

Wilmington Trust Investment Advisors, Inc. (WTIA) is a mutual fund manager and registered investment advisor headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware. The firm was founded as MTB Investment Advisors, Inc. in 1995 as the result of a merger between Allied Investment Advisors and M&T Asset Management. In 2012, their name was changed to WTIA. The firm is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Manufacturers and Traders Trust Co. (M&T Bank), which is owned by M&T Bank Corp. (NYSE: MTB). WTIA principally provides investment management services to institutional clients. They also serve as sub-advisor to the Wilmington Funds, a family of mutual funds.

Fidelity Management & Research Co. (FMR) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. The firm was founded in 1946 and is a subsidiary of FMR LLC, also known as Fidelity Investments. FMR provides investment supervisory services, which include sub-advisory services, to Fidelity's family of mutual funds and exchange-traded funds, qualified tuition programs, privately offered unregistered investment funds, separately managed account clients, and various other institutional accounts.

Manulife Investment Management (US) LLC (Manulife IM (US)) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. The firm was founded in 1968 and is a subsidiary of John Hancock Subsidiaries LLC, ultimately held by Manulife Financial Corp. (NYSE, TSX: MFC), a Canadian-based financial services firm. Manulife IM-US manages assets for a variety of institutional and other types of clients, such as public and private pension funds, foundations, mandatory provident funds outside the US, financial institutions, investment trusts, separately managed account clients, and high net-worth individuals. The firm also manages registered funds, which includes UCITS, US and Canadian open- and closed-end mutual funds and privately offered unregistered investment funds.

Hood River Capital Management LLC (Hood River) is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. The firm was founded by David Swank, Brian Smoluch and Rob Marvin in 2013. Hood River provides investment advisory services that are limited to the strategies listed to a variety of separately managed client accounts (Small-Cap Growth, Small/Mid-Cap Growth) generally on a discretionary basis.

Morningstar Investment Management LLC is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. The firm was founded in 1999 and is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Morningstar, Inc. (NASDAQ: MORN). Morningstar Investment Management offers various investment advisory services that focus on their core capabilities in asset allocation, investment selection, and portfolio construction to financial or other institutions.

Kipp Baltimore, Inc. is an educational organization that aims to provide joyful, academically excellent schools for students to prepare them for college, career, and beyond. Kipp Baltimore is based in Baltimore, MD, and was founded in 2002. The organization works with families and communities to create a safe and structured environment with highly skilled teachers and leaders who help students develop their character, knowledge, habits of mind, and skills needed to be successful in college and the competitive world. The CEO is Marsha Reeves.

T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc. (Price Associates) is a registered investment advisor and mutual fund manager headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland. The firm was founded by Thomas Rowe Price, Jr. in 1937. They are a subsidiary of the T. Rowe Price Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: TROW), which was formed in 2000 as the publicly traded parent holding company of Price Associates and their affiliated entities. Price Associates offers a variety of mutual funds, sub-advisory services and separate account management for individual and institutional investors, retirement plans and financial intermediaries.

Primary Physicians Research, Inc. provides clinical research and trial management services. It offers gastroenterology, women's health, neurology, nephrology, and pediatrics. The company was founded by Mark M. Blatter and Keith S. Reisinger in 1980 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA.

Brigade Capital Management LP (Brigade) is an independent, SEC-registered investment adviser and alternative asset manager headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 2006 by Donald Morgan III, John Hawks, and Patrick Kelly. Brigade offers a broad range of investments across the credit spectrum for institutional investors. Investors can access the firm’s credit strategies through commingled funds or separately managed accounts.

The Urban Land Institute operates as a non-commercial research organization. It provides leadership in the responsible use of land and in creating and sustaining thriving communities worldwide. The company was founded on December 14, 1936 and is headquartered in Washington, DC.

Alumni Association of the University of Virginia assists and encourages relation between alumni and students. The company was founded on July 4, 1838 and is headquartered in Charlottesville, VA.

BEKHealth Corp. is a privately held, venture-backed business that operates an AI-powered patient-matching software platform serving the clinical trial industry. The company is based in Kent, CT. The platform allows life sciences and healthcare organizations to speed up site selection and patient recruitment by extracting data from electronic medical records (EMRs), which includes structured and unstructured clinical data that captures three times more trial criteria. BEKHealth's AI-driven data platform uses a proprietary ontology that has been built from 400+ medical libraries aligned against 70,000 protocols to standardize patient data to its interoperable clinical data model. Founded by Jason Baumgartner, who has been the CEO since incorporation, BEKHealth combines a proprietary AI-powered EMR data-processing engine with easy-to-use and impactful workflow solutions to provide sites and CROs the ability to achieve "the last mile" to recruit the right patients more rapidly.

Excelerate Health Venture LLC (Excelerate Health Venture) is a venture capital firm founded in 2013 by Gary Abrahams and Bobby Bahram. The firm is headquartered in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina.

First Flight Venture Center operates as a non-profit organization that provides business support services to start-up and early stage companies. It offers programs for technology companies that help them in fields such as concept testing, prototyping, research, business strategies, and product development. The company was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in Durham, NC.

RTP Capital Associates, Inc. is a venture capital fund that provides advisory services to and invests in technology-driven companies. The company is headquartered in Durham, NC.