Brett Dale Carson

Northwestern Mutual Investment Services LLC (NMIS) is an asset management firm headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The firm was founded in 1968 and is a wholly owned subsidiary of The Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co. NMIS serves the investment planning and product needs of individuals and businesses through high-quality products, personal service and innovative solutions.

CWM LLC is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska. The firm was founded in 2010 and is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Carson Group Holdings LLC. CWM manages investment portfolios for individual clients, high net-worth families, foundations, endowments, and institutional investors. They also provide personal financial planning and investment advice.

Founded in 1996, GARP Research Corp. is an independent equity research firm for U.S. mid-cap and small-cap growth companies. Their investment philosophy is focused on growth, quality, and control of risk. They have a long-term orientation, but they also believe short-term results benefit from their discipline of waiting for catalysts to emerge and their ability to identify valid long-term growth drivers. They search for high quality as determined by competitive advantages, and potential or actual high return on capital employed. Companies recommend typically generate cash, grow organically, and are well financed. They control risk by technical analysis of long-term stock charts and proprietary valuation methodology. They typically recommend a stock after it has declined significantly and then based-out over many quarters. They avoid momentum stocks. GARP Research is located in Baltimore, Maryland.