John Pearson

Parkwalk Advisors Ltd. (Parkwalk Advisors) is a venture capital firm founded in 2009 by Moray Wright and Alastair Hugh Lowell Kilgour. The firm is headquartered in London, United Kingdom.

Spectral Edge Ltd. develops image fusion technology. Its products include PHUSION for photography, multispectral vision and video personalization. The company was founded by Robert Edward Meredith Swann, David Connah, Graham D. Finlayson, Mark S. Drew and Joita Dey in February 2011 and is headquartered in Cambridge, the United Kingdom.

Adelphi Capital LLP is the alternative investment management subsidiary of Adelphi Capital Management Ltd. in Great Britain. The firm was founded in 1997 by Roderick Jack and Marcel Jongen. Headquartered in London, Adelphi Capital provides investment advice on a discretionary basis to onshore and offshore private investment funds that are offered to high net-worth, financially sophisticated, individual and institutional investors.

Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, Inc. (MLPFS) is the SEC-registered broker/dealer subsidiary of Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc., ultimately held by Charlotte-based Bank of America Corp. (NYSE: BAC). The firm was founded in 1958 and is headquartered in New York City. In 2010, Banc of America Securities LLC merged with MLPFS and the firm uses the trade name Bank of America Merrill Lynch. MLPFS's global strategy and economics team serves institutional and individual investors using a wide range of macroeconomic disciplines. Their analysis of global issues provides clients with investment ideas, market forecasts, macro overviews and specific sector recommendations across asset classes, regions and disciplines. Their equity research team conducts fundamental analysis on companies globally and provides institutional and retail clients with industry-specific and in-depth research and analysis on numerous industries. The firm's global fixed-income and equity-linked research focuses on fixed-income and equity derivatives, fixed-income strategy, convertibles, commodities, high-yield, mortgages, municipals and global foreign exchange.

Silicon Microgravity Ltd. develops sensor devices for the oil and gas sector. Its sensing technology enables the recording of gravity data at high sensitivities and seismic data at ultra-low frequencies. The firm offers microelectromechanical system sensors to transform measuring densities deep in the reservoir from the borehole. The company was founded by Paul Vickery, Ashwin Seshia and Kevin Dodds in September 2013 and is headquartered in Cambridge, the United Kingdom.