Parag Sharma

Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC (Credit Suisse Securities USA) is the broker/dealer division of Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, an investment banking company headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1998 and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Credit Suisse (USA), Inc., ultimately owned by Credit Suisse Group AG (SWX: CSGN) in Switzerland. Credit Suisse Securities USA offers a suite of equities, solutions and credit products and services which includes global securities sales, trading and execution, prime brokerage and comprehensive investment research. Their clients include financial institutions, corporations, governments, institutional investors, such as pension funds and hedge funds, and private individuals around the world.

Moody's Investors Service, Inc. is a credit rating and investment research firm headquartered in New York City. They are a subsidiary of Moody's Corp. (NYSE: MCO). The firm performs international financial research and analysis on commercial and government entities and provides a variety of analytic tools for assessing credit risk. Their clients include creditors, investment banks and commercial banks.

Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC (GS&Co.) is a securities brokerage firm headquartered in New York City. Founded in 1927, the firm is a subsidiary of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE: GS). GS&Co. provides services to help hedge funds manage risk, monitor portfolios, maintain liquidity and build their businesses. They offer clients access to global equity and derivatives markets, as well as foreign exchange, commodities, European Lefts, rates and credit across the Americas, Europe and Asia. The firm proactively monitors capital markets, searching for pockets of liquidity and news that may require changes to those strategies. Integration with the Goldman Sachs network gives clients access to the firm's sectored block trades and their insights into price discovery. Their electronic trading program provides clients with tools to manage their trades from pre-trade analytics to post-trade analysis.

UBS Securities LLC is an investment bank and registered broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1998 as UBS Warburg LLC. They are a subsidiary of UBS Americas Holding LLC, ultimately held by UBS Group AG (SWX: UBSG, NYSE: UBS) in Switzerland. UBS Securities is a primary dealer in US Government securities and provides a full range of investment banking services which includes corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, trading and sales, fixed-income, equity research, private banking, underwriting and prime brokerage operations. The firm also provides advisory services and access to capital markets for corporate, institutional, intermediary and alternative asset management clients.

Manning & Napier Advisors LLC (MNA) is an investment advisory firm headquartered in Fairport, New York. The firm was formed in 2011 as the successor to Manning & Napier Advisors, Inc., which was founded as a partnership in 1970. They are a wholly-owned subsidiary of Manning & Napier Group LLC and their ultimate parent is Callodine Midco, Inc. MNA provides investment advice to individuals and institutional clients. The firm also acts as the sub-advisor to affiliated and unaffiliated advisors and to certain registered and unregistered commingled investment vehicles.

Fitch Ratings, Inc. is a global rating agency and investment research firm headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded by John Knowles in 1913 as Fitch Publishing Co. They are a subsidiary of Fitch Group, Inc., ultimately owned by The Hearst Family Trust. Fitch Ratings seeks to provide independent and prospective credit opinions, research and data to the world's credit markets. Their approach is based on a foundation of local market experience that covers capital markets in over 150 countries. The firm's ratings analysis and rating decisions are based on established criteria, methodologies and ratings definitions which they apply in a consistent manner. Fitch Ratings provides coverage of the following markets: Economics, Banks, Insurance, Sovereigns, Corporates, Structured Finance, Public Finance – International, Public Finance – US, Infrastructure & Project, and Finance.

Cowen & Co. LLC is a SEC-registered broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 2004 and is a subsidiary of Cowen Holdings, Inc., ultimately owned by The Toronto-Dominion Bank (TSE: TD) in Canada. Cowen & Co. offers industry-focused investment banking for growth-oriented companies, domain knowledge-driven research and a sales and trading platform for institutional investors. Their institutional sales and trading business serves both equity and fixed-income clients. Sales and trading execution platform is structured around the following key verticals: (1) healthcare (2) technology, telecommunications and media (TMT) (3) REITs and financials (4) aerospace and defense (5) consumer and (6) alternative energy.

Citigroup Global Markets, Inc. (Broker) (CGMI-Broker) is the broker/dealer division of Citigroup Global Markets, Inc., an investment bank headquartered in New York City with additional offices across the US. The firm was founded in 2004 and is a subsidiary of Citigroup Financial Products, Inc., ultimately held by Citigroup, Inc. (NYSE: C). CGMI-Broker covers all market capitalizations of the major global indices and provides macro and quantitative analysis of global markets and sector trends. Their core focus of the group is to help investing clients make informed decisions by providing value-added, independent, insightful analysis.

Rochester Institute of Technology is a privately endowed, coeducational university with ten colleges emphasizing career education and experiential learning. It was founded in 1829 and is headquartered in Rochester, NY.

QED Investors LLC (QED Investors) is a venture capital firm founded in 2007 by Frank Rotman, Caribou Honig and Nigel William Morris. The firm is headquartered in Virginia, US.

Dayton Development Coalition, Inc. is a regional economic development and advocacy organization. It aims to support job creation and prosperity for the citizens of the Dayton region. The organization's activities encompass the following areas and industries: aerospace systems, advanced materials and advanced manufacturing, information technology and advanced data management, human sciences and healthcare, and water. The company was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Dayton, OH.

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.

SVB Capital Management LLC (SVB Capital Management) is a venture capital arm of SVB Financial Group founded in 2000 by Aaron Gershenberg and Gregory Becker. The firm is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.

James Investment Research, Inc. (James Investment) is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Xenia, Ohio. Founded in 1972, JIR provides comprehensive wealth management services to individual and institutional clients.

Invesco Advisers, Inc. is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. They are a subsidiary of Invesco Group Services, Inc., ultimately held by Invesco Ltd. (NYSE: IVZ). The firm was founded in 1986 and previously known as Invesco Institutional NA, Inc. until April 2010 when Invesco Ltd. consolidated the businesses of their US investment advisors (Invesco AIM Advisors, Inc., Invesco AIM Capital Management, Inc., Invesco AIM Private Asset Management, Inc. and Invesco Global Asset Management NA, Inc.) under the name Invesco Advisers, Inc. They provide discretionary and non-discretionary investment advisory services to individuals, institutional and high net-worth clients through separate accounts, wrap fee programs and US registered investment companies and other Commingled Funds.

The Baupost Group LLC (Baupost) is a SEC-registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. The firm was founded by Seth Klarman in 1982 and is a subsidiary of The Baupost Group LP, which is owned by Baupost Group Holdings LP. Baupost serves as the managing general partner to various domestic investment limited partnerships. Investors, which may be high-net-worth individuals, corporations, charitable institutions, pension and profit-sharing plans, trusts, individual retirement accounts and other entities.

Clearstead Advisors LLC, dba Clearstead Hartland & Co. LLC (Clearstead), is an institutional investment consulting and private wealth management firm headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio. The firm was founded in 1989 as Hartland & Co. LLC and changed their legal name to Clearstead Advisors LLC in 2018. They are owned by Hartland Management Investors LLC (HMI), which holds the shares of Clearstead’s employees with approximately 40% ownership and Flexpoint Ford LLC, through the entity Moses Buyer Holdings LLC with approximately 60% ownership. Clearstead provides advisory services to corporate, private and public employee retirement funds (pension and savings plans); endowments and foundations; operating funds for non-profit and for-profit organizations, healthcare organizations and insurance companies; sub-advisor investment management services; and private clients (families, individuals and related entities).

Howe & Rusling, Inc. is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Rochester, New York. Founded in 1930, the firm provides investment management services to individuals, retirement plans, corporations, not-for-profit organizations, and self-insurance trusts.

Directly, Inc. provides customer support services. It integrates with helpdesk & community software including desk, Jive, Lithium, Microsoft Dynamics, Oracle, Salesforce, SAP, Zendesk. The firm makes on-demand business apps. Directly was founded by Antony Brydon, Jeff Patterson and Jean Tessier in 2011 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

The Vanguard Group, Inc. (VGI) is an independent registered investment advisor and mutual fund manager headquartered in Malvern, Pennsylvania. The firm was founded in 1975 by John Bogle. In 1976, they introduced the first indexed mutual fund, the First Index Investment Trust (now known as the Vanguard 500 Index Fund), to individual investors. VGI provides investment advisory services to Vanguard family of funds and Vanguard's non-US clients, which are comprised of the following: (1) funds established as trusts under the laws of the Province of Ontario in Canada and (2) separate account clients of Vanguard's international subsidiaries.

First Seafront Fund Management Co., Ltd. (FSFM) is an independent fund management firm headquartered in Shenzhen, China. The firm was founded in 2013 and formely known as Qianhai Kaiyuan Fund Management Co., Ltd. FSFM provides a range of fund management services for individual and institutional investors.

Moogsoft (Herd), Inc. engages in the provision of business and technical solutions. It offers digital experience, navigate disruption, cloud migration, and hybrid cloud. The company was founded by Philip Tee and Charles Michael Silvey in 2011 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Hualu Holdings Co. Ltd. is a state-owned capital operation organization established by the People's Government of Shandong Province. The company has subsidiaries such as Hong Kong Hualu Group, Shandong Hualu Group, Shandong Hualu Hengsheng Group, and Shandong Xinhua Pharmaceutical. The company is based in Hong Kong, Hong Kong. The Chinese company follows the business philosophy of "integrity-based, and credibility-oriented" and relies on capital operation to increase strength and reform management to increase vitality. Hualu Holdings Co. is ultimately controlled by the Province of Shandong.

Hualu Investment Development Co. Ltd. functions as an investment holding company and is ultimately controlled by the Province of Shandong. The company is based in Hualu, China.

Northgate Capital LP (Northgate Capital) is a venture capital and private equity firm founded in 2000 by Thomas Arthur Vardell and Brent Michael Jones. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Saints Ventures LLC (Saints Ventures) is a private equity/venture capital firm founded in 2000 by Ken Sawyer and David Quinlivan. The firm is headquartered in Denver, Colorado.

The Four Rivers Group LLC (Four Rivers Group) is a venture capital firm founded in 2007 by Farouk Ladha. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.