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Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC (Credit Suisse Securities USA) is the broker/dealer division of Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, an investment banking company headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1998 and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Credit Suisse (USA), Inc., ultimately owned by Credit Suisse Group AG (SWX: CSGN) in Switzerland. Credit Suisse Securities USA offers a suite of equities, solutions and credit products and services which includes global securities sales, trading and execution, prime brokerage and comprehensive investment research. Their clients include financial institutions, corporations, governments, institutional investors, such as pension funds and hedge funds, and private individuals around the world.

Chilton Capital Management LLC (Chilton Capital) is a SEC-registered investment advisor and wealth management firm headquartered in Houston, Texas. The firm was founded in 1996 and they are a subsidiary of Knapp Brothers LLC. Chilton Capital provides a diversity of investment strategies, customized wealth management solutions, and trust company services to individuals, family offices, business owners, endowments, foundations, retirement plans and trusts on a fee-only basis.

McKinley Capital Management LLC (McKinley Capital) is a SEC-registered investment headquartered in Anchorage, Alaska. The firm was founded by Robert “Bob” Gillam in 1990 and is wholly-owned by McKinley Management, Inc. McKinley Capital provides investment advisory and sub-advisory services to institutional, individual and high-net worth investors. They also participate as a sub-advisor in various wrap fee programs and provide emulation or model portfolios to clients. In addition, the firm is the general partner and/or investment advisor to various commingled investment funds such as offshore and onshore limited partnerships and a statutory trust.

The Teacher Retirement System of Texas (TRS) is a state-owned pension fund manager headquartered in Austin, Texas. The firm was founded by the Texas Legislature in 1937 to provide service and disability retirement benefits to teachers and administrators of the public school systems of Texas, which include institutions of higher education. In 1949, legislation expanded membership eligibility to include all employees of public education institutions. In 1985, TRS was assigned responsibility to administer health insurance program for public school retirees. The firm invests funds under its stewardship and delivers benefits to members as authorized by the Texas Legislature.

Ernst & Young LLP engages in the provision of accounting, assurance, tax, transaction, and advisory services. It specializes in the actuarial, analytics and big data, cyber security, accounting compliance and reporting, center for board matters, international financial reporting standards, country tax advisory, global trade, tax accounting, and climate change and sustainability. The company was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC (GS&Co.) is a securities brokerage firm headquartered in New York City. Founded in 1927, the firm is a subsidiary of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE: GS). GS&Co. provides services to help hedge funds manage risk, monitor portfolios, maintain liquidity and build their businesses. They offer clients access to global equity and derivatives markets, as well as foreign exchange, commodities, European Lefts, rates and credit across the Americas, Europe and Asia. The firm proactively monitors capital markets, searching for pockets of liquidity and news that may require changes to those strategies. Integration with the Goldman Sachs network gives clients access to the firm's sectored block trades and their insights into price discovery. Their electronic trading program provides clients with tools to manage their trades from pre-trade analytics to post-trade analysis.

Barclays Capital, Inc. is a registered broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1997 and is a subsidiary of Barclays Group US, Inc., ultimately owned by Barclays plc (LON: BARC) in Great Britain. Barclays Capital provides large corporate, government and institutional clients a full spectrum of prime brokerage services which includes equities and fixed income financing, OTC Clearing, Futures and Foreign Exchange Prime Brokerage and access to industry insights and analytics from their Strategic Consulting team.

Diesslin Group, Inc. (DG) is an asset management firm headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas. The firm was founded by David Diesslin in 1980. DG provides fee-only financial advisory services and wealth management to individuals, closely held businesses, private foundations, and endowments.

EIV Capital LLC (EIV Capital) is a private equity firm co-founded by Anthony Annunziato and Patricia B. Melcher in 2009. The firm is headquartered in Houston, Texas.

Society of Petroleum Engineers, Inc. provides petroleum engineering services. The non-profit company is based in Allen, TX and has subsidiaries in United States, India and Canada.

Natural Gas Partners LLC (NGP) is a private equity firm, a subsidiary of NGP Energy Capital Management, LLC founded in 1988 by David Russell Albin and Kenneth Alfredo Hersh. The firm is headquartered in Dallas, Texas.

Surveyor Capital Ltd. is a hedge fund seeding platform headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 2008 and is a subsidiary of Citadel LP, which is owned by GFH HFEVA LLC. Surveyor Capital manages capital exclusively for Citadel’s multi-strategy funds and its positions are consolidated in Form 13F filed by Citadel Advisors LLC.

Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC is a registered broker-dealer subsidiary of Morgan Stanley Domestic Holdings, Inc., ultimately owned by Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) in the US. Headquartered in New York City, the firm was founded in 1987 and provides debt and equity services including underwriting, M&A advice, securities dealing and brokerage and trade execution. Their client base ranges from large global institutional investors to hedge funds at the cutting edge of innovation in the industry.

Livwell Ventures (Livwell Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded by Doss Cunningham and DJ Monteilh in 2018. The firm is headquartered in Austin, Texas.

Tudor, Pickering, Holt & Co. Securities LLC (TPH) is a broker/dealer headquartered in Houston, Texas. The firm was founded in 2007 by Robert Tudor III. They are a subsidiary of Perella Weinberg Partners Group LP, which is ultimately owned by Perella Weinberg Partners (NASDAQ: PWP). TPH provides a full array of trading and execution services for their institutional and corporate clients in the energy sector. They focus on the upstream, midstream and oilfield service sectors.

B&B Laboratories, Inc. provides professional services to support each client and project by incorporating industry resources, relationships, technology, and safe practices. The firm offers oceanographic services, including acquisition, sampling, analysis and scientific interpretation, to the marine environmental, geochemical, geotechnical and survey marketplace. The company was founded in May 1996 and is headquartered in College Station, TX.

Founded in 1958, Merrill Lynch Piece Fenner & Smith, Inc. is an SEC registered broker/dealer located in New York City. The firm is a subsidiary of BAC North America Holding Co. and their ultimate parent is Bank of America Corp. (NYSE BAC).

Renovo Capital LLC (Renovo Capital) is a private equity firm founded in 2009 by Mark Barbeau, Donald W. Jungerman and Scott Lavie. The firm is headquartered in Dallas, Texas.

Seed Sumo Management LLC (Seed Sumo) is a venture capital firm founded in 2013 by Bryan Bulte, DJ Monteilh, Doss Cunningham, and Manish Patel. The firm is headquartered in Bryan, Texas.

Kayne Anderson Income Strategies Fund operates as a closed-end management investment company. The firm's investment objective is to provide common shareholders total return with an emphasis on current distributions. The company is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

Peak Rock Capital LLC (Peak Rock Capital) is a private equity firm founded in 2012. The firm is headquartered in Austin, Texas.

Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors LP (Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors) is a private equity subsidiary of Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors LP founded in 1991. The firm is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

CSIdentity Corp. provides identity protection and fraud detection solutions. Its protection solutions include identity validation, comprehensive background screenings, identity theft protection and data breach management. The firm also provides government solutions, including international identity verification and fraud detection, domestic identity verification and fraud detection, breach mitigation, and integrated identity and risk framework methodology. Its products encompass CSIdentity Security Suite, CSIdentity SAFE, CSIdentity Breach and CSIdentity Protector. The company was founded by William E. Morrow, Joe C. Ross and Harold Gottschalk in 2006 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

Stakeholder Midstream LLC provides midstream services. It offers in-field natural gas gathering, compression, treating and processing services; NGL processing & takeaway solutions; and crude oil gathering, transportation & storage. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in San Antonio, TX.

Jefferies LLC is a global investment bank and institutional securities firm headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1962 and is a subsidiary of Jefferies Group LLC, ultimately held by Jefferies Financial Group, Inc. (NYSE: JEF). Jefferies provides corporate clients with research and execution services in equity, fixed income, and foreign exchange markets, as well as a full range of investment banking services such as underwriting, mergers and acquisitions, restructuring and recapitalization, and other advisory services, with all businesses operating in the Americas, Europe and Asia.

Flatrock Energy Advisors LLC (Flatrock Energy Advisors) is a private equity firm founded by William D. Waldrip, William Robert Lemmons and Dennis F. Jaggi in 2008. The firm is headquartered in San Antonio, Texas.

EnCap Investments LP (EnCap Investments) is a private equity firm founded in 1988 by Gary Peterson and Robert Zorich and The firm is headquartered in Houston, Texas.