Jaroslaw Nowak

Founded in 2000, IMC Chicago LLC is a proprietary trading and broker/dealer located in Chicago, Illinois. The firm is active in the North American markets as a wholly-owned subsidiary of International Marketmakers Combination BV (IMC) of Amsterdam, one of the largest derivatives trading houses in Europe. Their traders actively trade on the CBOE, PHLX, CME, the NYSE Arca and the ISE, all through screen-based trading. IMC Chicago is active in indices, equity options, cash futures and quantitative trading strategies. The firm provides an array of trading an execution services for their clients. They do not provide any internal research.

Coatue Management LLC (Coatue) is a SEC-registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded by Philippe Laffont in 1999 and is a subsidiary of Coatue Management Partners LP. Coatue provides investment advisory services on a discretionary basis to US and non-US private investment funds intended for sophisticated investors and institutional investors. Their flagship funds include Coatue Qualified Partners LP (CQP), Coatue Offshore Fund Ltd. (COF), and Coatue Offshore Master Fund LP (COMF). CQP and COF invest all of their investable assets in COMF. Coatue is a signatory of the UN Principles of Responsible Investment (PRI).

AQR Capital Management LLC (AQR) is a SEC-registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in Greenwich, Connecticut. The firm was founded by Clifford Asness, David Kabiller, and John Liew in 1998. They are a wholly-owned subsidiary of AQR Capital Management Holdings LLC and their ultimate parent is Affiliated Managers Group, Inc. (NYSE: AMG). AQR provides investment management services to institutional clients through managed accounts. Their investors may include investment companies, pooled investment vehicles, pension and profit-sharing plans, charitable organizations, state or municipal government entities, other investment advisers, insurance companies, sovereign wealth funds and foreign official institutions, corporations or other businesses entities.

Optiver US LLC is a proprietary trading firm headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. The firm was founded in 2003 and is a subsidiary of Optiver Holding BV in The Netherlands. Optiver US provides institutional investors around the globe with liquidity in Equities, FX, Fixed Income and Commodity products by offering consistently competitive prices in options, futures and ETFs in major markets.

Prota Labs LLC (Prota Labs) is a venture capital firm co - founded in 2016 by Wilson Fong. The firm is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

DRW Holdings LLC engages in the provision of securities trading services. It focuses on global markets by leveraging and integrating technology, risk management, and quantitative research. The company was founded by Donald R. Wilson Jr. in 1992 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Northwestern University is a private institution founded in 1851 to serve the Northwest Territory, an area that now includes the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and parts of Minnesota. Northwestern has three campuses