Paul Cognetti

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.

Van Leeuwen & Co. LLC (VLC) is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Princeton, New Jersey. The firm was founded by Kenneth van Leeuwen in 1997. VLC provides investment advisory services to individuals, pension and profit-sharing plans, trusts, estates, charitable organizations, corporations and business entities.

Federal Home Loan Bank of New York engages in the provision of banking services. It is a federally chartered corporation exempt from federal, state and local taxes except local real property taxes. The firm is managed to deliver balanced value to members, rather than to maximize profitability or advance volume through low pricing. The company was founded in 1932 and is headquartered in New York, NY.