Rick Whiting

Citizens JMP Securities LLC (Citizens JMP) is a full-service investment bank and broker/dealer headquartered in San Francisco, California. The firm was founded by Joseph Jolson in 2002 and was formerly JMP Securities LLC. The firm is a subsidiary of JMP Holding LLC, ultimately held by Citizens Financial Group, Inc. (NYSE: CFG). Citizens JMP provides equity research, institutional brokerage, and investment banking services to public and private growth companies and their investors. They are a research-driven, growth-oriented firm that provides services to small- and mid-sized companies and the institutions that invest in them. The firm specializes in four high-growth sectors of the economy: technology, healthcare, financial services, and real estate.

Part of Prudential Financial, Inc., Vector Securities International LLC is a securities brokerage. The company is based in Deerfield, IL. The company was founded by Linda Becker Ginsburg.

Part of Baird Financial Group, Inc., Robert W. Baird Ltd. is an employee-owned firm based in London, UK that offers wealth management, capital markets, asset management, and private equity services. The British company is dedicated to providing the best advice and service to its individual, corporate, institutional, and municipal clients by leveraging its deep expertise and broad skills.

William Blair & Co. LLC (William Blair) is a SEC-registered broker/dealer firm headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. The firm was founded by William McCormick Blair in 1935 and is a subsidiary of WBC Holdings LP. Until 1941, they were known as Blair, Bonner & Co. William Blair provides broking services to individual, institutional and issuing clients.

Arthur Andersen LLP used to provide accounting services. It was also into consulting services for clients that operate businesses throughout the United States and around the world. Arthur Andersen was founded in 1913 and was headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Robert W. Baird & Co., Inc. (Private Banking) (RWBCI) is the wealth management division of Robert W. Baird & Co., Inc., an employee-owned capital markets, asset management and private equity firm headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The firm was founded in 1919 and is a subsidiary of Baird Financial Corp., ultimately held by Baird Financial Group, Inc. RWBCI offers investment management services to all types of current or prospective clients, which include, but not limited to: individuals, trusts, estates, Retirement Accounts, pension and profit-sharing plans, charitable organizations, and corporations or other business entities.

Robert W. Baird & Co., Inc. (Broker) (Baird-Broker) is the broker-dealer division of Robert W. Baird & Co., Inc., an investment bank and financial services company headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The firm was founded in 1919 and is ultimately owned by Baird Financial Group, Inc. Baird-Broker offers a full suite of comprehensive trading services for institutional clients.

Advanced Medical Technology Association is a trade association which provides medical technology solutions. The company was founded in 1974 and is headquartered in Washington, DC.

Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago provides critical resources that bring food, refuge, health care, education and emergency assistance. The company was founded in 1900 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

OptiMA, Inc. is a woman-owned company that sells dry erase boards and visual display products like custom printed dry erase boards, magnetic dry erase boards and a variety of student lap boards. Its products include marker trays, magnets and magnetic accessories, paper easel pads, letter boards and cubical white board hangers. The company was founded by Doug Klimavich and Christine Klimavich in 1987 and is headquartered in Shrewsbury, MA.

La Marzocco International LLC designs and distributes espresso machines. It also offers grinders and spare parts. The company was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

Part of Prudential Financial, Inc., Prudential Securities Corp. is a company based in Raleigh, NC.

InStadium, Inc. provides advertising and promotional marketing services for sports. It offers in-venue advertising services such as restroom advertising, programs advertisements, concourse signage, behind home plate signage, outfield wall signs, team radio, public announcement, digital concourse media, stadium television, and led advertising services. The firm also offers in-venue promotions and events services such as promotion overlays, lucky winner events, and text messaging and instadium restroom advertising services. The company was founded by Barrett Davie in 2003 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Red Hen Corp. operates a bar. The private company is based in Chicago, IL.

Hawthorne Race Course, Inc. owns and operates a horseracing track in Stickney, Illinois. The one mile horse track features harness, quarter horse, and thoroughbred racing. The company was founded in 1891 and is headquartered in Cicero, IL.

Vernon & Park Capital LP (Vernon & Park Capital) is a private equity/venture capital firm founded in 2001 by James S Ginsburg. The firm is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

Illinois Biotechnology Industry Organization, also known as ibio, is a state trade association representing the life sciences industry in Illinois. The non-profit company is based in Chicago, IL. The organization's mission is to promote, connect, and engage the life sciences community to drive discovery, transform lives through groundbreaking research, and grow the economy. The company's membership ranges from corporations to startup companies in the biopharma, medical device, and nutrition industries. The Illinois life sciences industry is recognized as a national leader, and ibio's members are committed to expanding the boundaries of science by discovering, developing, and delivering innovative and needed therapeutics and products to transform patients' lives.

CLS Group Holdings AG operates multicurrency cash settlement system to mitigate settlement risk for the foreign exchange transactions. The firm offers settlement, processing and data products including CLSSettlement, CLSNow, Cross currency swaps, CLSNet, CLSTradeMonitor, CLSMarketData and CLSReporting. The company was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Lucerne, Switzerland.

Milwaukee Ballet Co., Inc. is a dance troupe.

Securities Industry & Financial Markets Association, Inc. (SIFMA) is an organization that represents the securities industry in the United States. The private company is based in New York, NY and has subsidiaries in the United States. The company's main focus is advocating for effective and resilient capital markets. The CEO of the company is Kenneth E. Bentsen.

Ogilvy Paris operates as a advertising agency. The company was founded in October 1987 and is headquartered in Paris, France.

Part of CLS Group Holdings AG, CLS Bank International is a company that provides innovative settlement, processing, and data solutions to reduce risk and increase efficiency. The company is based in New York, NY and offers CLSSettlement to their customers, allowing settlement members to generate revenues and strengthen customer relationships while mitigating FX settlement risk and improving operational efficiencies. The company's datasets include data based on over 1 billion trades dating back to 2002, making them the largest single source of FX-executed data available to the market.