Andrew Craig Stephens

MakeMusic, Inc. provides music education technology services. The firm operates through two segments: Notation and SmartMusic. The Notation segment includes the design, development, sales, and marketing for the Finale family of music notation software products, MusicXML and Dolet software and Garritan sound libraries. The SmartMusic segment includes the design, development, amortization of capitalized song title development, sales, and marketing of the subscription-based SmartMusic product line, and related accessories. The company was founded by John W. Paulson in 1990 and is headquartered in Boulder, CO.

Peaksware LLC develops software for creators, instructors and performers. Its brands include make music, Alfred, training peaks, best bike split, and train heroic. The company was founded by Gear Fisher and Dirk friel in 1999 and is headquartered Boulder, CO.

MakeMusic SASU develops a platform for for augmented sheet music. Its augmented sheet music platform replaces the static "e-sheet music" by a series of innovations that makes music practice more simple, stimulating and immersive. The firm's augmented sheet music automatically turns pages, and allows any musician to play along with a customizable orchestra. The company's application is available on iPad along with the already existing website weezic.com. It was founded in May 2011 by Nicolas Arbogast and Gregory Dell'Era and is headquartered in Paris, France.

LaunchEquity Partners LLC (LaunchEquity Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 2006 by Andy Stephens. The firm is headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Artisan Partners LP (Artisan Partners) is a mutual fund manager and SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The firm was founded in 2009 by Andrew Ziegler and is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Artisan Partners Holdings LP, itself a subsidiary of Artisan Partners Asset Management, Inc. (NYSE: APAM). Artisan Partners serves as investment adviser to a variety of separately managed accounts, unregistered pooled investment vehicles, trustees of collective investment trusts, and to each series of Artisan Partners Funds, Inc., an open-ended management investment company.

MakeMusic, Inc. provides music education technology services. The firm operates through two segments: Notation and SmartMusic. The Notation segment includes the design, development, sales, and marketing for the Finale family of music notation software products, MusicXML and Dolet software and Garritan sound libraries. The SmartMusic segment includes the design, development, amortization of capitalized song title development, sales, and marketing of the subscription-based SmartMusic product line, and related accessories. The company was founded by John W. Paulson in 1990 and is headquartered in Boulder, CO.

Strong Capital Management, Inc. (SCM) provides investment management services to the Strong family of mutual funds, corporate and public employee retirement funds, endowments, foundations, Taft Hartley plans, and individuals. Founded in 1974, the firm is independently owned by professionals active in its day-to-day management.