Jack Gee

iShares, Inc. exchange Traded Fund. The Company operates as an open-end management investment company. iShares was founded on September 1, 1994 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Parnassus Investments is an investment advidsory firm headquartered in San Francisco, California. The firm was founded in 1984 by Jerome Dodson and is a subsidiary of Parnassus Investments LLC, ultimately owned by Affiliated Managers Group, Inc. (NYSE: AMG). Parnassus Investments provides investment advice to investment companies and separately manage institutional accounts.

Based in San Francisco, Fremont Investment Advisors offers a family of no-load mutual funds to retail and institutional investors and provides portfolio management services to retirement plans, high net worth individuals and institutional investors. Sub-advisors manage the majority of the Fremont funds.

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLC provides assurance, tax and advisory services. Its services include audit and assurance, consulting, deals, human resources, legal, tax, and family business. The firm also offers accountability, risk management, structuring, mergers and acquisitions, and performance and process improvement. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Buffalo, NY.

iShares Gold Trust is an investment vehicle, which engages in owning gold transferred to the trust in exchange for shares issued by the trust. Its activities include issuing baskets of shares in exchange for the gold deposited with the custodian as consideration; selling gold as necessary to cover the sponsor?s fee, trust expenses not assumed by the sponsor and other liabilities; and delivering gold in exchange for baskets surrendered for redemption. The company was founded on January 21, 2005 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Big Bank Big Oil Split Corp. operates as a closed-end investment fund/investment trust. It is managed by BlackRock Asset Management Canada Ltd. It invests on an equally weighted basis in a portfolio of common shares of Canadian banks and Canadian oil and gas companies. The company was founded on April 16, 2006 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

BlackRock Institutional Trust Co. NA is a national banking association headquartered in San Francisco, California. The firm was founded in 1999 and is a subsidiary of BlackRock Delaware Holdings, Inc., ultimately owned by BlackRock, Inc. (NYSE: BLK). They operate as a limited purpose trust firm.

Founded in 1991 by Philip Paul, Paul Capital Partners LP is a private equity firm located in San Francisco with additional offices in New York City, Hong Kong, London, Paris and São Paulo.