Amanda Gerdes

Calamos Investments LLC is a global investment firm headquartered in Naperville, Illinois. The firm was founded by John P. Calamos in 1977 and is a subsidiary of Calamos Partners LLC. Calamos Investments offers a range of global investment solutions through separately managed portfolios, mutual funds, closed-end funds, private funds, and UCITS funds. Their clients include major corporations, pension funds, endowments, foundations and individuals, as well as the financial advisors and consultants who serve them.

Monument Microcap Partners LLC (Monument Microcap Partners) is an independent private equity firm founded in 2018 by Bob Erwin. The firm is headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Part of The Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co., Northwestern Mutual Financial Network is a company that provides financial planning services. The company is based in Louisville, KY.

Visionary Wealth Advisors LLC (VWA) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri. The firm was founded by Brett Gilliland in 2014 and they are owned by Gilliland Hammett Capital Management LLC. VWA provides investment advisory services to individuals, trusts, estates, charitable organizations, corporations and business entities.

Calamos Advisors LLC is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Naperville, Illinois. The firm was founded by John Calamos, Sr. in 1977 and is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Calamos Investments LLC, ultimately held by Calamos Family Partners, Inc. Calamos Advisors provides investment management services to institutional clients such as corporations and financial institutions, registered investment companies or mutual funds, closed-end funds, charitable institutions, foundations and endowments, corporate pensions, profit sharing and other retirement plans, municipalities, individuals, Taft-Hartley plans, and pooled investment vehicles.

General Electric Capital Corp. provides financial products and services. Its services include commercial loans and leases, fleet management, financial programs, credit cards, personal loans, and other financial services. The firm’s solutions include energy finance and aviation finance. The company was founded in 1943 and is headquartered in Norwalk, CT.

Part of First Busey Corp., Busey Bank is a state chartered commercial bank. The company is based in Champaign, IL. Van A. Dukeman has been the CEO of the company since 2009.

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.

First Mid Insurance Group, Inc. engages in the provision of risk management business. It offers a variety of insurance products and services for personal, business, health, senior solutions, and farm. It includes auto, home, life, individual, pet, legal, commercial and industry programs, surety bonds, group health plans, individual health, dental and vision plans, medical supplements, Medicare advantage, and long term care. The company is headquartered in Mattoon, IL.

Cannon Cochran Management Services, Inc. provides insurance brokerage services. The private company is based in Danville, IL and has subsidiaries in United States.

American Marketing & Publishing LLC provides marketing and advertising. Its products include local search, home page directories, online presence, yellow pages, text and mobile marketing. The company was founded by Abe Andrzejewski in 1997 and is headquartered in Dekalb, IL.

LSV Asset Management (LSV) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. The firm was founded in 1994 by Josef Lakonishok, Andrei Shleifer and Robert Vishny. They are affiliated with SEI Investments Co. (SEI) (NASDAQ: SEIC), because SEI Funds, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of SEI, owns a minority interest in LSV. LSV provides discretionary investment management services in portfolios of publicly traded global equity securities to a variety of institutional investors and commingled investment funds.