Paul Hess

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.

BlackRock Advisors LLC is a SEC-registered investment advisor and mutual fund manager headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1994 and is a subsidiary of BlackRock Capital Holdings, Inc., ultimately held by BlackRock, Inc. (NYSE: BLK). BlackRock Advisors manages assets for US-registered investment companies and 529 Plans.

Goldman Sachs Asset Management LP (GSAMLP) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in New York City. The firm is a wholly owned subsidiary of GSAM Holdings LLC, and their ultimate parent is Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE: GS). Founded in 1988, GSAMLP provides investment solutions to a range of individual and institutional investors worldwide.

Citizens JMP Securities LLC (Citizens JMP) is a full-service investment bank and broker/dealer headquartered in San Francisco, California. The firm was founded by Joseph Jolson in 2002 and was formerly JMP Securities LLC. The firm is a subsidiary of JMP Holding LLC, ultimately held by Citizens Financial Group, Inc. (NYSE: CFG). Citizens JMP provides equity research, institutional brokerage, and investment banking services to public and private growth companies and their investors. They are a research-driven, growth-oriented firm that provides services to small- and mid-sized companies and the institutions that invest in them. The firm specializes in four high-growth sectors of the economy: technology, healthcare, financial services, and real estate.

Two River Group Holdings LLC is a venture capital firm founded in 2004 by David M.Tanen, Joshua A.Kazam and Ben Bernstein. The firm is headquartered in New York.

ADARA, Inc. provides online display advertising services. Its Magellan platform transforms loyalty audience that enables brands to monetize and nurture their loyalty program customers online and helps advertisers reach exclusive qualified audiences. The company was founded by Charles Mi, I-Heng Mei and James Kim in 2005 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

Legatum Capital Ltd. (Legatum Capital) is the investment management subsidiary of Legatum Ltd. in the United Arab Emirates. Legatum Capital was founded in 2006 by Christopher Chandler, formerly President of the holding company for Sovereign Global Investment which he co-founded in 1986. Sovereign's investment portfolio was demerged into two independent entities in 2006. Based in Dubai, Legatum Capital is strategically located mid-way between Asia and Europe, which enables them to cover the world's largest capital markets in a single business day. Through the Legatum Institute, Legatum Center, Legatum Ventures and the Legatum Foundation, the firm seeks to contribute their human, financial and intellectual capital to make a positive impact in the world.

Paperless, Inc. provides online messaging services. The firm offers back, front end, mobile and data driven development technology. The company was founded by James D. Hirschfeld and Alexa H. Hirschfeld in 2009 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

P&S Credit Management LP, dba Gracie Asset Management (Gracie), is a SEC-registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 2004 and is a direct subsidiary of Moelis Gracie Holdco LLC, owned by Moelis Asset Management LP. Gracie manages a family of multi-strategy credit hedge funds.

Quandl, Inc. provides alternative and core financial data. The firm enables its users to get the precise data, in the exact format what the users want. It supports open data, they believe that public data must be free, open and accessible to all. The company was founded by Tammer Kamel and Abraham Thomas in 2012 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

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.

McKinsey & Co., Inc. provides management consulting services. It specializes in design, marketing and sales, analytics, operations, transformation and restructuring, risk, strategy and corporate finance, and sustainability and resource productivity. The company was founded by James O. McKinsey in 1926 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Harvard University engages in the provision of teaching and research. It has twelve degree-granting Schools in addition to the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, offering a global education. The university was founded in 1636 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Neuberger Berman BD LLC is a SEC-registered investment advisor and mutual fund manager headquartered in New York City. It is directly owned by Neuberger Berman Investment Advisers LLC, which is an indirect, wholly-owned subsidiary of Neuberger Berman Group LLC, which is owned by NBSH Acquisition LLC. The firm traces their origin back to the 1939 founding of Neuberger & Berman, its predecessor firm. In 1950, Neuberger Berman became one of the first firms to offer a no-load mutual fund to individual investors. Neuberger Berman BD manages a range of equity, fixed income, private equity and hedge fund strategies on behalf of institutions, advisors and individual investors worldwide.

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.

Hellman & Friedman LLC (Hellman & Friedman) is a private equity firm founded in 1984 by Warren Hellman and Tully Friedman. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Asymmetric Capital LLC (Asymmetric Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 2020 by Robert Duke Biederman. The firm is headquartered in Boston, MA.

BMO Capital Markets Corp. (Broker) is the broker/dealer division of BMO Capital Markets Corp., a full-service North American financial services provider headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1998 and is a subsidiary of BMO Financial Corp., which is owned by Bank of Montreal (NYSE, TSX: BMO) in Canada. BMO Capital Markets offers corporate, institutional and government clients access to a variety of products and services including equity and debt underwriting, corporate lending and project financing, merger and acquisitions advisory services, merchant banking, securitization, treasury and market risk management, debt and equity research and institutional sales and trading.

Sun Basket, Inc. provides a healthy meal delivery service offering fresh, organic ingredients and easy recipes delivered to door weekly. It sources organic produce from the West Coast farms and responsibly-raised, sustainable meats, and seafood. The company was founded by Adam Zbar, Braxton Woodham and Justine Kelly in 2012 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

CommonBond, Inc. provides online loans for students. It offers undergraduate student loan, graduate student loan, MBA student loan and student loan refinancing for business. The company was founded by David Klein, Jessup Shean, and Michael Taormina in 2012 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Caer, Inc. offers a nutritious-based early childhood meal delivery program. It helps parents to select a plan on the Yumi website, a chef prepares the food in the Yumi kitchen and then the meals arrive in an insulated container, along with ice packs to keep it fresh. The company was founded by Evelyn Rusli and Angela Sutherland and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

Spacious Technologies, Inc. engages in transforming available urban space into a citywide network of drop-in workspaces. Its members have unlimited access to spaces that provide Wi-Fi, power outlets and complimentary refreshments. The company was founded by Preston Pesek and Chris Smothers in 2016 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Allianz Global Investors U.S. LLC (AllianzGI US) is an investment advisory firm headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 2001 as Allianz Global Investors Capital LLC. In 2022, Voya Investment Management Co. LLC, which is ultimately owned by Voya Financial, Inc. (NYSE: VOYA), acquired the firm from Allianz SE (ETR: ALV). AllianzGI US provides portfolio management services to a variety of individual and institutional clients as well as certain Wrap Fee Programs.

Icynene, Inc. manufactures spray foam insulation. Its Icynene spray foam insulation has been installed in residential and commercial projects. The company was founded by Graeme Kirkland, Jim McGarth, and Gabe Farkas in 1986 and is headquartered in Mississauga, Canada.

Briarwood Chase Management LLC (BCM) is an independent, SEC-registered investment adviser and hedge fund manager headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded by Aalap Mahadevia in 2013. BCM provides discretionary investment advisory services to privately offered pooled investment vehicles and separately managed accounts.

VitriVax, Inc. is a biotechnology company based in Boulder, CO that partners with vaccine developers to create thermostable vaccines that can be delivered in a single shot. The company's proprietary atomic layering thermostable antigen and adjuvant (alta™) technology platform enables vaccines to be shipped ly without refrigeration or freezing, last for years on the shelf, and only require one patient interaction to deliver multiple doses. The alta™ technology can be applied to a wide variety of vaccine antigens and adjuvants to protect against thermal and chemical degradation and enable controlled release, incorporating prime doses and additional booster doses in a single-shot administration. The company was founded by Robert Garcea and Theodore Randolph, and the CEO is Matthew Raider.

Canada Pension Plan Investment Board Private Investments is a private equity firm, a subsidiary of Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, founded in 1966. The firm is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

Codagenix, Inc. provides platform technology to construct viral vaccines against multiple targets. It focuses on SAVE platform technology that utilizes computer-based rational design of viral genomes for the design and construction of vaccines for a range of medically important human diseases. The company was founded by J. Robert Coleman, Eckard Wimmer, Charlie Petty and Steffen Mueller in 2009 and is headquartered in Farmingdale, NY.

Blue Owl Credit Advisors LLC (Blue Owl Credit Advisors) is a private equity subsidiary of Blue Owl Capital, Inc founded in 2015 by Douglas Ostrover, Marc Lipschultz and Craig W. Packer. The firm headquartered in New York.