Kathleen Garrett

Mackenzie Financial Corp. (dba Mackenzie Investments) is a Canadian asset management firm headquartered in Toronto, Ontario. The firm was founded in 1967 and is a direct subsidiary of Mackenzie, Inc., ultimately held by Power Corp. of Canada (TSE: POW). Mackenzie Investments provides discretionary investment advisory services to Canadian mutual funds, such as exchange-traded funds, Separately Managed Accounts, and one closed-end fund listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange.

CIBC Asset Management, Inc. (CIBC AM) is a Canadian asset management firm headquartered in Toronto, Ontario. The firm was founded in 1972 and is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (NYSE, TSE: CM), a publicly traded Canadian chartered bank. CIBC AM manages assets on behalf of institutional, high-net-worth clients and underlying investors in their retail sponsored products.

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.

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.

The Bell Telephone Company of Canada engages in the provision of communications services. It includes residential, business, and wholesale customers with a range of solutions to all their communications needs, such as wireless, television, internet, home phone, and small business and enterprise communications services. The company was founded in 1880 and is headquartered in Verdun, Canada.

BMO Capital Markets Corp. (Canada) (BMO Capital Markets-Canada) is the Canadian brokerage arm of BMO Capital Markets Corp., a full-service financial services provider in the US. The firm was founded in 1817 and is a subsidiary of BMO Asset Management, Inc., which is owned by Bank of Montreal (NYSE, TSX: BMO) in Canada. Headquartered in Toronto, BMO Capital Markets-Canada provides full-service, institutional brokerage services to corporate, institutional and government clients around the world.

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.

Nexus Investment Management, Inc. (Nexus) is an investment management firm headquartered in Toronto, Canada. The firm was founded by William "Bill” Berghuis in 1988 and is owned by Focus Financial Partners, Inc. (NASDAQ: FOCS) in the US. Nexus manages portfolios for both private clients (families and individuals) as well as foundations and endowments who are able to invest $1 million in their pooled funds or $2 million in their segregated portfolios.

RBC Dominion Securities, Inc. (RBCDS) is a Canadian broker/dealer headquartered in Toronto, Ontario. The firm was founded in 1901 and is a subsidiary of Royal Bank of Canada (TSE, NYSE: RY). RBCDS provides a full spectrum of brokerage services to retail and corporate clients.

Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP engages in the provision of legal services. It offer legal services in aboriginal, banking and specialty finance, business, cannabis, construction, employment and labour, franchise, hospitality, insurance and reinsurance, and private equity. The company was founded in 1888 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

Credit Suisse Securities (Canada) Inc. is a broker/dealer headquartered in Toronto, Ontario with offices worldwide. The firm is a subsidiary of Credit Suisse Group (NYSE: CS). Their equity research equity group engages in a broad range of activities for investors including sales, trading, financing, prime brokerage and market-making in U.S. and international equity and equity related securities, options, futures, risk management and hedging products. Their activities cover both exchange-traded and over-the-counter traded securities, including American depositary receipts, restricted stocks, equity repurchases, block trade executions, program trading executions, equity derivatives and convertible securities. The fixed-income franchise operates as a single, unified platform that handles all fixed-income cash and derivative products. Products and services range from securitization and liability management transactions to sales and trading and superior research.

Raymond James Ltd. (Broker) (Raymond James-Broker) is the broker/dealer division of Raymond James Ltd., a diversified financial services firm headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia. The firm was founded in 1962 and is ultimately owned by Raymond James Financial, Inc. (NYSE: RJF), a US-based diversified holding company. Raymond James-Broker provides a full array of investment services to corporate and institutional clients.

McCarthy Tetrault LLP provides legal services. Its services include integrated business law, litigation services, taxation, real property, and labour and employment law. The company was founded in 1855 and is headquartered in Montreal, Canada.

Apotex, Inc. operates as a generic pharmaceutical company that offers medicines. It engages in research and development, bioequivalence, and clinical studies. The company was founded by Dr. Bernard Sherman in 1974 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

Goldman Sachs Canada, Inc. is an independent broker/dealer headquartered in Toronto. They are a subsidiary of Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. The firm provides a full array of trading and execution services for their clients. They do not provide any internal research

Veritas Investment Research Corp. (Veritas) is an independent equity research firm headquartered in Toronto, Canada. The firm was founded in 2000 by Michael Palmer and Anthony Scilipoti. Veritas provides in-depth analysis of Canadian and international companies, identifying upside and downside catalysts. Their unique forensic accounting-based research approach has proven that a careful understanding of financial information is the key to a secure investment decision.

Canada Pension Plan Investment Board Private Investments is a private equity firm, a subsidiary of Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, founded in 1966. The firm is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

Founded in 2007, Northwest & Ethical Investments LP (NEI) is an investment advisor located in Toronto. The firm was founded as the result of a joint venture between Desjardins and the Credit Unions, merging Northwest Mutual Funds Inc. and The Ethical Funds Company. NEI is owned 50 per cent by the Provincial Credit Union Centrals and 50% per cent by Desjardins Group. NEI offers a range of conventional and corporate class funds from Northwest Funds and sustainable investing funds family from Ethical Funds. NEI also offers proprietary packaged solutions for Credential Financial Inc.

Part of Moulded Foams (Scotland) Ltd., Moulded Foams Ltd. is a leading designer and manufacturer of cellular foam solutions in the UK. The company is based in Blackwood, UK. Moulded EPS panels are one of their products that enable quick and simple installation of underfloor heating into both suspended and ground floors. The British company also has many years of experience in the design and manufacture of performance foams for the automotive industry, including Expanded Polypropylene Foams (EPPs). The CEO of the company is John Reynolds Thornberry.

Columbia Management Investment Advisers LLC (CMIA) is a registered investment advisor and mutual fund manager headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. The firm is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Ameriprise Financial, Inc. (NYSE: AMP). The firm was formed in 2010 as the result of Ameriprise Financial Services' (AFS) acquisition of the long-term asset management business of Columbia Management Group (CMG) from Bank of America. AFS merged CMG's long-term asset management business with their subsidiary, RiverSource Investments LLC, under the name Columbia Management Investment Advisors. CMIA offers equity and fixed-income retail and institutional investment products for various types of clients.

Canaccord Genuity Corp. (CGC) is the broker/dealer subsidiary of Canaccord Genuity Group, Inc., (TSE: CF; OTCMKTS: CCORF) in Canada. The firm was founded in 2010 and is locally known as Financière Canaccord ltée. Headquartered in Vancouver, CGC offers corporate and institutional clients with versatile and responsive sales and execution services that range from Institutional Equities and International Equities to Electronic Trading and Fixed Income. Their sales & trading team execution capabilities encompass a wide range of products and services such as Equities, ADR’s, OTC, ETF’s, Fixed Income, Options, Preferreds, Investment Companies.

Mellanox Technologies Belfast Ltd. supplies hardware engines for content and network processing. It offers regular expression processor for application awareness and security processing; and parallel string matcher for high performance network processing related search and lookup functions. The firm’s products are used in various applications, such as stateful packet classification, deep packet inspection, access control list execution, flow classification, TCP and IP header lookup and content and URL inspection and filtering. The company was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Belfast, the United Kingdom.

JDS Energy & Mining, Inc. provides mining and construction services. Its services include due diligence and scoping studies, technical engineering studies, on-site, permitting support, and mine remediation. The company was founded by Jeff Stibbard in 2004 and is headquartered in Kelowna, Canada.

Deloitte LLP provides audit, tax, consulting and financial advisory services. Its services include advisory, audit, consulting, human capital, mergers and acquisitions, operations, regulatory, risk and resilience, strategy, tax and technology. The firm serves in financial services, manufacturing, real estate, technology, media, life science and consumer business industries. The company is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

DevCycle is a leading feature management platform that helps companies improve their software development process and release features faster. DevCycle focuses on simplifying the developer experience and enabling them to release features with confidence. The private company is based in Toronto, Canada, and has subsidiaries in Canada. The platform offers various features such as feature flags, edge flags, A/B testing, feature opt-ins, SDKs, realtime updates, and integrations with popular development tools like Jira and Slack. It was founded by Andrew Norris and Cobi Druxerman, and the CEO is Aaron Glazer.

Pioneer Fund/NY/ is a venture capital firm founded by Jason Gray. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Sun Valley Gold LLC (Canada) (SVG-Canada) is the Canada-based hedge fund manager of Sun Valley Gold LLC. They are ultimately owned by Sun Valley Gold Co. in the US. Headquartered in Vancouver, SVG-Canada was founded in 1998 and offers a broad range of financial products for investors.

We Are Friday Ltd. provides design and technology services. It offers content management, application development and integration, and hosting and infrastructure. The company was founded in September 2009 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.