Katie Frisch

Segall Bryant & Hamill LLC (SBH) is a SEC-registered investment advisory firm headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. The firm was founded in 1994 by Ralph Segall, Charles Bryant and Jonathan Hamill. They are a wholly owned subsidiary of Corient Holdings, Inc., which is owned by CI Financial Corp. (TSX: CIX; OTC: CIXXF) in Canada. SBH provides professional portfolio management of domestic and international equity and fixed income portfolios, and alternative investments, to institutional and intermediary clients. SBH became a signatory of the United Nations’ Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) in 2017.

ICON Advisers, Inc. (ICON) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Greenwood Village, Colorado. The firm was founded by Dr. Craig Callahan in 1986 as Meridian Investment Management Corp. They are wholly owned subsidiary of ICON Management & Research Corp. ICON provides sub-advisory and portfolio management services to registered mutual funds and high net worth individuals.

Ernst & Young LLP engages in the provision of accounting, assurance, tax, transaction, and advisory services. It specializes in the actuarial, analytics and big data, cyber security, accounting compliance and reporting, center for board matters, international financial reporting standards, country tax advisory, global trade, tax accounting, and climate change and sustainability. The company was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Tel-Aviv University operates as a university in Israel. Its faculties include arts, engineering, science, humanities, law, life science, management, medicine, and social science. The company was founded in 1956 and is headquartered in Ramat Aviv, Israel.

Marsico Capital Management LLC (MCM) is a SEC-registered investment advisor and mutual fund manager headquartered in Denver, Colorado. The firm was founded by Thomas “Tom” Marsico in 1997. MCM manages assets for mutual funds, corporate retirement plans, endowments, foundations, family offices, separately managed wrap programs, and other clients. The firm also serves as the investment adviser to the Marsico Funds.

Founded in 1995 by Steven Bathgate, GVC Capital LLC, formerly Bathgate Capital Partners LLC, is an investment banking firm and broker/dealer located Greenwood Village, Colorado. The firm focuses primarily on providing comprehensive investment banking services to underexposed and undervalued micro-cap companies. GVC Capital's brokerage services include retail investment sales, institutional equity and fixed-income securities. The firm is a member of FINRA and the SIPC. GVC Capital seeks to provide their retail clients with greater exposure to institutional investors as efficient means to raising capital in the form of institutional private placement financings and a variety of other investment products including municipal bonds, government securities, mutual funds, annuities, options and equities. The firm also offers accredited investors periodic opportunities to participate in private placements (Regulation D) and IPOs for select emerging growth companies. GVC Capital's accounts are maintained and cleared by First Southwest Company. The firm's fixed-income group seeks to provide their clients with best execution. They provide independent advisory services and research focusing on a diverse universe of fixed-income securities including corporate, government and municipal bonds, convertible and mortgage-backed securities and preferred stocks. GVC Capital's equity trading group focuses on efficient trade execution of micro-cap companies and identifying and creating liquidity in illiquid markets.

Millennium Management LLC is a SEC-investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded by Israel 'Izzy' Englander in 1989 and is a subsidiary of MLM Trust B LLC, itself a subsidiary of MLM Trust B. Millennium Management provides discretionary investment advisory services to private investment funds.

Gauzy Ltd. is a light and vision control company, which engages in the development, manufacturing, and wholesale of liquid control glass. It operates through the following segments: Architecture and Automotive, Safety Tech, and Aeronautics. The Architecture and Automotive segment refer to the sales of OEMs to incorporate the company’s technology in glass rooftops, side windows, and windshields to replace conventional sun visors and shades. The Safety Tech segment focuses on sales of advanced driver assistance systems for buses, coaches, recreational vehicles and specific vehicles, such as camera and motion sensor systems, smart mirrors, and safety doors. The Aeronautics segment is involved in the sale of shading and cabin management systems in private and commercial aircraft, and helicopters. The company was founded by Adrian Lofer, Dimitry Dobrenko and Eyal Peso on October 26, 2009 and is headquartered in Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel.

University of Southern California is a private research university that mainly offers undergraduate, graduate & other higher education. The university was founded in 1880 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

McKinsey & Co., Inc. provides management consulting services. It specializes in design, marketing and sales, analytics, operations, transformation and restructuring, risk, strategy and corporate finance, and sustainability and resource productivity. The company was founded by James O. McKinsey in 1926 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC is a registered broker-dealer subsidiary of Morgan Stanley Domestic Holdings, Inc., ultimately owned by Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) in the US. Headquartered in New York City, the firm was founded in 1987 and provides debt and equity services including underwriting, M&A advice, securities dealing and brokerage and trade execution. Their client base ranges from large global institutional investors to hedge funds at the cutting edge of innovation in the industry.

Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, Inc. (MLPF&S) is a global investment banking firm, SEC-registered investment advisor, broker-dealer, and futures commission merchant headquartered in New York City. The firm is a subsidiary of BAC North America Holding Co., ultimately held by Bank of America Corp. (NYSE: BAC). MLPF&S provides investment advisory services to individuals, trusts, estates, charitable organizations, banks, insurance companies, thrift institutions, pension and profit-sharing plans, corporations and other types of business.

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.

Founded in 1985, NatWest Markets Securities, Inc. is a financial services and brokerage firm headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut. The firm is a subsidiary of RBS Holdings USA, Inc. and their ultimate parent is the Royal Bank of Scotland Plc (LSE: RBS). The firm was formerly known as RBS Securities, Inc., RBS Greenwich Capital, and Greenwich Capital Markets, Inc. NatWest is an institutional fixed-income firm that provides a full range of debt capital markets services to both those seeking to raise capital and those seeking to invest it. The firm is an industry leader in the U.S. Treasury, agency and MBS markets and in providing real estate and asset-backed financing to their clients. NatWest also provides futures brokerage services and trade strategies to select clients.

Tap In Systems, inc. provides systems management services for cloud-based applications. The firm develops a cloud-based systems management service to respond to the unique needs of today's increasingly heterogeneous and virtual IT infrastructures. The company was founded by Peter Loh and Ben Faul in September 2008 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

TransAria, Inc. provides broadband internet services. It offers data and networking services over a private, all-internet protocol, fixed wireless and fiber optic network. The company was founded by Roger Lang and Jeffrey Peck in September 2000 and is headquartered in Bozeman, MT.

Project 1972, Inc. engages in the provision of private networking platform for women. Its membership services include core group, salon series, connection, and clubhouses access. The company was founded by Lindsay Kaplan and Carolyn Childers in 2017 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Silk Technologies, Inc. provides enterprise-class all-flash storage arrays. It provides solid-state storage solutions for database, data mining and warehousing, business intelligence, operational business intelligence, customer relationship management, and Web applications. The company was founded by Ofir Dubovi and Moshe Selfinin in 2008 and is headquartered in Newton, MA.

LogsHero Ltd. provides artificial intelligence-powered log analysis. Its solutions include AI-accelerated DevOps, AWS analytics, Azure analytics, infrastructure protection with ELK, and information technology operations analytics. The company was founded by Tomer Levy and Asaf Yigal in 2014 and is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Yesware, Inc. provides mailing services for sales people. It is a free add-on for Gmail that helps users sell more effectively right from their inbox. The firm's Email Tracking notifies salespeople when prospects open their messages and click their links. The company was founded by Patrick Cashman Andrus, Matthew Bellows and Rajat Bhargava in 2010 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

BLG Consulting Group provides consulting services. The private company is based in Palo Alto, CA. The company was founded by Bridget L. Gleason.