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Founded in 1958, Merrill Lynch Piece Fenner & Smith, Inc. is an SEC registered broker/dealer located in New York City. The firm is a subsidiary of BAC North America Holding Co. and their ultimate parent is Bank of America Corp. (NYSE BAC).

Barclays Capital, Inc. is a registered broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1997 and is a subsidiary of Barclays Group US, Inc., ultimately owned by Barclays plc (LON: BARC) in Great Britain. Barclays Capital provides large corporate, government and institutional clients a full spectrum of prime brokerage services which includes equities and fixed income financing, OTC Clearing, Futures and Foreign Exchange Prime Brokerage and access to industry insights and analytics from their Strategic Consulting team.

BlackRock Advisors LLC is a SEC-registered investment advisor and mutual fund manager headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1994 and is a subsidiary of BlackRock Capital Holdings, Inc., ultimately held by BlackRock, Inc. (NYSE: BLK). BlackRock Advisors manages assets for US-registered investment companies and 529 Plans.

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.

Balyasny Asset Management LP (BAM) is a multi-strategy hedge fund manager and SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. The firm’s predecessor, Balyasny Capital Management LLC (BCM), was founded in 2001 by Dmitry Balyasny, Scott Schroeder and Taylor O'Malley. In 2003, BCM converted from a limited liability company to a limited partnership. Then, in January 2004, their name was changed to Balyasny Asset Management LP. They are a subsidiary of Balyasny Asset Management Holdings LP. BAM provides investment advisory services to high net-worth individuals and institutional clients through privately offered pooled investment funds.

The Hong Kong Institute of Chartered Secretaries is an independent professional body that promotes the role of its members in formulating and implementing good governance policies. The private company is based in Hong Kong, Hong Kong. It also aims to develop the profession of chartered secretary and chartered governance professional in mainland China. The institute was established in 1949 as an association of members of the Chartered Governance Institute and gained local status in 1994. It has more than 6,000 members and 3,200 students.

Chime Biologics Ltd. is a leading Contract Development and Manufacturing Organization (CDMO) that provides customer-centric and cost-effective outsourcing services for biopharmaceutical development and manufacturing. The company is based in Wuhan, China, and its world's first GE Kubio facility is located at Wuhan's Bio-Lake Biotech Industry Development Zone, with a clear path to expand the total capacity up to 140,000+ liters in the near future. The Chinese company has introduced the world's first modular biopharmaceutical plant, Kubio, which empowers its partners' success in biologics from cell line development to commercial manufacturing. Chime Biologics is committed to making cutting-edge biomedicines affordable and accessible to all patients, fulfilling its commitment to human health. Chime Biologics is ISO 14001:2015 and ISO 45001:2018 certified and has been providing customers with clinical materials for pre-clinical and clinical stages worldwide since 2016.

KPMG Hong Kong provides accounting services. The private company is based in Hong Kong, Hong Kong and has subsidiaries in Hong Kong.

Adage Capital Management LP (Adage) is a SEC-registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. The firm was founded by Phil Gross and Robert Atchinson in 2001 and is owned by Adage Capital Partners GP LLC. Adage provides investment advisory services to its sole client, Adage Capital Partners LP (ACP), a private investment fund. The firm does not manage any separate accounts.

Citigroup Global Markets, Inc. (Broker) (CGMI-Broker) is the broker/dealer division of Citigroup Global Markets, Inc., an investment bank headquartered in New York City with additional offices across the US. The firm was founded in 2004 and is a subsidiary of Citigroup Financial Products, Inc., ultimately held by Citigroup, Inc. (NYSE: C). CGMI-Broker covers all market capitalizations of the major global indices and provides macro and quantitative analysis of global markets and sector trends. Their core focus of the group is to help investing clients make informed decisions by providing value-added, independent, insightful analysis.

Jefferies LLC is a global investment bank and institutional securities firm headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1962 and is a subsidiary of Jefferies Group LLC, ultimately held by Jefferies Financial Group, Inc. (NYSE: JEF). Jefferies provides corporate clients with research and execution services in equity, fixed income, and foreign exchange markets, as well as a full range of investment banking services such as underwriting, mergers and acquisitions, restructuring and recapitalization, and other advisory services, with all businesses operating in the Americas, Europe and Asia.

ABS Capital Partners, Inc. (ABS Capital Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 1990 by Don Bruce Hebb and Tim Thaddeus Weglicki. The firm is headquartered in Washington, DC.

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.

Vivere Lifesciences Acquisition Corp. is a blank check company. It was formed for the purpose of effecting a merger, share exchange, asset acquisition, share purchase, reorganization or similar business combination with one or more businesses. The company was founded by Siu Wai Ng, Jie Lun Zhu and Ya Chun Chen on February 8, 2022 and is headquartered in Hong Kong.

Novomer, Inc. manufactures biodegradable plastics, polymers, and other chemicals from renewable substances. It specializes in commercializing a family of low-cost, high-performance, sustainable polymers and other chemicals. The company was founded by Geoffrey William Coates, Anthony Romey Eisenhut and Scott D. Allen in 2004 and is headquartered in Waltham, MA.

The Application Developers Alliance is a website that provides guides, articles, and news stories on every aspect of app design, from start to finish. The non-profit company is based in Washington. The website covers a range of different topics, including how to structure an app in a way users will find appealing, ways to market an app, and how to monetize apps.

Manning & Napier Advisors LLC (MNA) is an investment advisory firm headquartered in Fairport, New York. The firm was formed in 2011 as the successor to Manning & Napier Advisors, Inc., which was founded as a partnership in 1970. They are a wholly-owned subsidiary of Manning & Napier Group LLC and their ultimate parent is Callodine Midco, Inc. MNA provides investment advice to individuals and institutional clients. The firm also acts as the sub-advisor to affiliated and unaffiliated advisors and to certain registered and unregistered commingled investment vehicles.

Sands Capital Management LLC (Sands Capital) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Arlington, Virginia. The firm was founded in 1992 by Frank Sands and is majority owned by Sands Capital Management LP. Sands Capital provides investment management services to both US and non-US clients who have different tax statuses, often depending on the jurisdiction.

Homestead Advisers Corp. is a SEC-registered investment adviser headquartered in Arlington, Virginia. It was founded in 1990 as RE Advisers Corp. and became Homestead Advisers Corp. in 2022. The firm is a direct, wholly-owned subsidiary of Homestead Financial Services Corp. (formerly RE Investment Corp.), which is a direct, wholly-owned subsidiary of NRECA United, Inc., a holding company of the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA). Homestead Advisers provides investment supervisory services to investment companies, employee benefit plans, pension and profit-sharing plans, corporations and other business entities. They also provide retirement planning services to individuals that participate in NRECA’s sponsored 401(k) Pension Plan or Retirement Security Plan.

Safeguard International Management LLC (Safeguard Intl Mgmt) is a private equity subsidiary of Safeguard Scientifics, Inc founded in the year 1953. The firm is headquartered in Radnor, Pennsylvania.

Vision Capital Corp. (Vision) is an independent hedge fund manager headquartered in Toronto, Canada. The firm was founded by Frank Benjamin Mayer and Jeffrey Frederick Olin. Vision serves as the manager of the Vision Opportunity Funds, an alternative investment funds that focus on investments in publicly-traded securities in the real estate sector.

MediaMath, Inc. operates programmatic marketing technology which provides digital advertising services. It offers enterprise software which is used to launch, analyze, and optimize digital advertising campaigns across displays, native, mobile, video, audio, social, digital out of home, and advanced television formats. The company was founded by Joseph Zawadzki, Gregory Dale Williams, and Erich Wasserman in 2007 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center operates as a private cancer center. It offers cancer care services to adult; and child and teen patients. Its services include risk assessment and screening; diagnosis and treatment; clinical trials; patient and caregiver education; and pediatric clinical trials. The company was founded by John J. Astor and Charlotte Astor in 1884 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Brown Advisory LLC is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland. The firm is a subsidiary of Brown Advisory Management LLC and their ultimate parent is Brown Advisory, Inc. The firm was founded and launched in 1993 as an investment management division of Alex. Brown & Sons, a Baltimore-based investment bank founded in 1800. In 1998, they became independently owned through an employee-led buyout. Brown Advisory provides investment management services to individuals and institutions.

Bricksolve, Inc. engages in the operation of an online platform for store shopping. It allows retailers to activate web and mobile browsers to deliver more primed-to-purchase customers into their local stores. The company was founded by David Munczinski in 2014 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Baldwin Risk Partners LLC operates as a holding company with interest in providing investments into insurance and risk management assets. It offers asset and income protection, commercial risk management, employee benefit consulting, personal insurance, and private risk management. The company was founded by L. Lowry Baldwin, Elizabeth H. Krystyn and Laura R. Sherman in 2012 and is headquartered in Tampa, FL.

Cbrite, Inc. develops and researches diode switches for display applications. Its technology includes amoled backplane challenges, transistor technology, flexible displays, hemispherical array and detector for imaging. It is a flat panel backplane technology and has developed a remarkable new transistor technology for driving high performance LCDs and amoled displays. The firm has locations in Goleta, Hsinchu and Santa Barbara. The company was founded by Gang Yu, Boo Jorgen-Lars Nilsson and Alan J. Heeger in 2000 and is headquartered in Goleta, CA.

UP Holdings LLC (Upside Partnership) is a venture capital subsidiary of Cushman & Wakefield Plc, founded in 2014 by Kent Goldman. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Elementl, Inc. engages in software company. It develops platforms and infrastructure tools. The company was founded by Nicholas Hage Schrock and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.