Andreas Lothar Hoppe

Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC (Credit Suisse Securities USA) is the broker/dealer division of Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, an investment banking company headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1998 and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Credit Suisse (USA), Inc., ultimately owned by Credit Suisse Group AG (SWX: CSGN) in Switzerland. Credit Suisse Securities USA offers a suite of equities, solutions and credit products and services which includes global securities sales, trading and execution, prime brokerage and comprehensive investment research. Their clients include financial institutions, corporations, governments, institutional investors, such as pension funds and hedge funds, and private individuals around the world.

TD Asset Management, Inc. (TDAM) is a Canadian investment management firm headquartered in Toronto, Ontario. The firm is a subsidiary of the Toronto-Dominion Bank (NYSE: TD), a Canadian chartered bank regulated by the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions. Founded in 1987, TDAM provides discretionary investment management services to corporations, investment companies, pension funds/plans, endowments and foundations.

The Catalyst Group Inc (Catalyst Group) is a private equity firm founded in 1990 by Ron T. Nixon and Rick L. Herrman. The firm is headquartered in Houston, Texas.

Cormark Securities Inc. (Cormark) is an independent investment dealer headquartered in Toronto, Canada with additional office in Calgary. The firm was founded in 1981 as Sprott Securities, Inc. Cormark Securities provides execution and comprehensive coverage of Canadian listed companies to domestic and international institutional investors. They focus on Canadian-listed, mid-cap and emerging growth companies.

Merrill Lynch Canada, Inc. is a Canadian broker/dealer headquartered in Toronto, Ontario. They are a subsidiary of Midland Walwyn, Inc. and their ultimate parent is Bank of America Corp. (NYSE: BAC). The firm offers brokerage and investment banking services as well as commercial lending, global high-yield debt, global equity, and M&A services to institutional and retail clients.

Alta Colleges, Inc. operates as a holding company with interest in providing higher educational services. It provides services through its subsidiaries Wesgray Corp and Westwood College of Technology. The firm specializes in career-focused education, meeting workforce needs for in-demand employment fields. The company was founded in 1953 and is headquartered in Broomfield, CO.

Founded in 2010 by George Gosbee, AltaCorp Capital Inc. is an institutional financial advisory and brokerage firm headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The firm offers a full spectrum of value-added financial and advisory services to corporations in across various stages of development. Their products and services include corporate mergers and acquisition advisory, equity financings, asset acquisitions and divestitures advisory, institutional sales and trading and institutional equity research. AltaCorp Capital focuses on key drivers of the Western Canadian economy that are global in scope including energy, agri-industry and diversified industries, with overlap into interdependent subsectors. The firm's research includes macro analysis, theme pieces, daily notes, corporate reviews, quarterly and annual overviews and other relevant market/sector issues. AltaCorp Capital's Institutional Sales and Trading team has expertise in both national and global trading markets and are fully integrated within an expansive network of long-standing relationships with institutional clients. They offer execution in trading securities and relevant and timely placing of new offers/issues. The firm also offers execution in institutional block trading and an industry leading technical platform. AltaCorp maintains a strategic relationship with ATB Financial, a full-service financial institution headquartered in Edmonton, Alberta.

National Bank Financial, Inc. (NBF) is a Canadian mutual fund manager headquartered in Montréal, Quebec. The firm was founded in 1902 and is a direct subsidiary of National Bank Acquisition Holding, Inc., ultimately owned by National Bank of Canada (TSX: NA). NBF is an integrated firm that combines retail advisory and brokerage services with institutional brokerage, investment banking, corporate finance and securities clearing services for third parties.

CIBC World Markets, Inc. is a full-service Canadian brokerage and investment banking firm headquartered in Toronto, Ontario. The firm was founded in 1961 and is a subsidiary of the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (TSE, NYSE: CM). CIBC World Markets provides alternative investment managers with premier prime brokerage that brings together trade execution, reporting, research and capital introduction with a view to enhancing efficiencies and profitability.

Scotia Capital, Inc. (Broker) (Scotia Capital-Broker) is the broker-dealer division of Scotia Capital, Inc., a full-service financial services firm headquartered in Toronto, Canada. The firm is owned by The Bank of Nova Scotia (NYSE, TSE: BNS). Scotia Capital-Broker delivers a broad range of electronic trading products such as high-touch, low-latency, market access and a broad algorithmic trading suite for a wide range of clients globally. They publish monthly indexes to help investors track the performance of Canadian Hedge Funds and Alternative Mutual Funds.

TD Securities, Inc. is a Canadian broker/dealer headquartered in Toronto, Ontario. The firm is a subsidiary of The Toronto-Dominion Bank (NYSE, TSE: TD). TD Securities provides a wide range of capital market products and services to corporate, government and institutional clients. Their services also include the underwriting and distribution of new debt and equity issues, providing advice on strategic acquisitions and divestitures and executing daily trading and investment needs. The firm’s equity group provides research coverage of various sectors. Their fixed-income group provides a full range of underwriting sales and trading products for Canadian, US and European debt issuers and investors.

Youngs Professional Services LLC is a full-service group that provides completely managed care and staffing services for endoscopy centers across a multi-state region. The private company is based in Mandeville, LA. The company has been providing high-level anesthesia care to hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers, and endoscopy services centers since 2003. YPS handles the pain of recruiting, hiring, managing, credentialing, scheduling, paying, billing, and supporting. The CEO is Tracy P. Young.

Nixon Capital LLC is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in Austin, Texas. The firm was founded by Ryan Nixon in 2008 as Goshawk Global Investments LLC. Nixon Capital provides investment supervisory services on a discretionary basis to separately managed accounts (SMAs) and to a pooled investment vehicle (Fund).

Aviditi Capital Advisors LLC provides banking and financial services. The company is headquartered in Dallas, TX.

Aviditi Advisors LLC is a premier, independent alternative investment advisory firm that offers fully integrated illiquid and liquid advisory solutions. The firm is led by 12 partners with an average of 19 years of experience and has over 20 additional members located in five offices. The private company is based in New York, NY and has subsidiaries in UK. The company provides full lifecycle outcomes to clients through their expertise in capital formation, capital solutions, and liquidity solutions. Aviditi engages in fund placements, direct equity syndications, secondaries, and fund structuring solutions, as well as advisory work on capital market raises and other tailored solutions for alternative investment managers and investors. The company was founded in 2019 by John C. Robertshaw, Schlitt Edward Ryan, and Schlitt Edward Ryan has been the CEO since 2019.

Rochal Industries LLC is a company that specializes in commercializing technology innovations in natural and synthetic polymers, antimicrobials, and biological systems. The company is based in San Antonio, TX and was founded in 1986 by Ann Beal Salamone. Rochal Industries is focused on wound and skin care, and is known for creating the field of non-stinging liquid bandages in the 1990s. The company has continued to develop next generation products in that category.

OneSixtyTwo Capital, Inc. is an independent, partner-owned money management firm headquartered in Toronto, Canada. The firm was founded as Triumph Asset Management, Inc. in 2004 by Bonne Bloomberg, Bruce Tatters and Steven Tuchner. They changed their name to OneSixtyTwo Capital, Inc. in 2019. OneSixtyTwo Capital provides investment advisory services to the firm's principals, high net-worth individuals and family offices. Their flagship product is the Capital Appreciation Fund.

Desjardins Securities, Inc. is the broker/dealer arm of the Desjardins Holding Financier, Inc., ultimately held by Le Mouvement des caisses Desjardins in Canada. Founded in 1991, the firm is headquartered in Montréal and has an additional office in Toronto. Desjardins Securities offers businesses and institutions with a complete range of securities brokerage products and services through its investment advisors and its Disnat Online Brokerage division. The firm is an approved participant on the Montreal Exchange and the Toronto Stock Exchange, as well as a participating member of the TSX Venture Exchange. In addition, Desjardins Securities is a member of both the Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada (IIROC) and the Canadian Investor Protection Fund (CIPF).

Loewen, Ondaatje, McCutcheon Ltd. (LOM) is an independent Canadian broker/dealer firm headquartered in Toronto, Ontario. Founded in 1970, the firm combines objective research and value-added financing ideas with institutional sales, trading and investment banking. They are a provider of value-added North American research. LOM focuses exclusively on advising small and mid-cap companies, with a strong focus on select emerging growth companies in industries that include Technology, Healthcare, and Mining.

Ernst & Young LLP (Canada) engages in the provision of consulting, assurance, tax, and transaction services. The company is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

RBC Capital Markets LLC (Investment Management) (RBC-IM) is the asset management division of RBC Capital Markets LLC, a broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm is a subsidiary of RBC USA Holdco Corp., ultimately held by Royal Bank of Canada (NYSE, TSE: RY) in Canada. RBC-IM provides advisory services to individuals, foundations, endowments, employee benefit plans, trusts and estates, educational institutions, corporations, businesses, government entities and other entities.

Richardson Capital Ltd. (Richardson Capital) is a private equity arm of Richardson Financial Group Ltd founded in 2003. The firm is headquartered in Winnipeg, Canada.