Oliver Stephen Kratz

DWS Investment Management Americas, Inc. (DIMA) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in New York City. The firm is a subsidiary of DWS USA Corp., ultimately held by Deutsche Bank AG (ETR: DBK) in Germany. The firm was founded in 1984 and formerly known as Deutsche Investment Management Americas Inc. In 2018, they changed their name into DWS as part of the rebranding of Deutsche Asset Management. DIMA provides discretionary and non-discretionary investment advisory services to various institutional clients. They also provide investment advisory services for its municipal bond strategies through wrap fee programs.

Global Thematic Partners LLC (GTP) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded by Oliver Kratz and Ralf Oberbannscheidt in 2010 through a spin-out of the global thematic equity team of DB Advisors, the institutional investment management division of Deutsche Asset Management. GTP provides investment advisory services to corporations, pension plans, governments, foundations and endowments, trusts, international public authorities, pooled investment vehicles including non-US funds.

Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. is a broker/dealer located in New York City. The firm provides a comprehensive range of equity execution services exclusively to institutional clients worldwide. Their clients include private banks, mutual funds, hedge funds, independent asset managers and investment advisors and other brokers.

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.

Global Thematic Partners Deutschland GmbH is an independent asset management firm headquartered in Potsdam, Germany. The firm provides investment management services to individual and institutional clients.