Peter M. Ward

Stock Yards Bank & Trust Co. (SYBT) is an investment adviser headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky. The firm was founded in 1904 and is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Stock Yards Bancorp, Inc. (NASDAQ: SYBT). SYBT offers financial planning, investment management, retirement planning, and trust and estate services to individuals, families, and businesses.

The State Teachers Retirement System of Ohio (STRS Ohio) is a State-owned pension fund management firm headquartered in Columbus, Ohio. The firm was founded in 1919 and manages pension assets for active, inactive and retired Ohio public educators. STRS Ohio operates under the guidelines of Chapter 3307 of the Ohio Revised Code as enacted by the Ohio General Assembly. They are legally separated from and fiscally independent of state and local governments.

DePrince, Race & Zollo, Inc. (DRZ) is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Winter Park, Florida. The firm was founded in 1995 by Gregory DePrince, John Race and Victor Zollo. DRZ provides customized investment management services to institutional clients such as trusts, charitable organizations, investment companies, pension and profit-sharing plans, corporations or business entities, endowments, foundations, and private funds.

Avondale Partners LLC is an independent broker/dealer headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee with additional offices across the US. The firm was founded by Robert Shepherd and Philip Krebs in 2001. Avondale Partners provides financial advisory services as well as equity and fixed income underwriting and private placement services to public and private companies throughout the US, Canada and Europe. They focus on middle-market companies in the healthcare sector.

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLC provides assurance, tax and advisory services. Its services include audit and assurance, consulting, deals, human resources, legal, tax, and family business. The firm also offers accountability, risk management, structuring, mergers and acquisitions, and performance and process improvement. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Buffalo, NY.

Todd Asset Management LLC (TAM) is a privately-held registered investment advisory firm headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky. The firm was founded by Bosworth Todd in 2009 upon the combination of Veredus Asset Management LLC (VAM) with Todd Investment Advisors, Inc. (TIA) and subsequently changed its name to Todd-Veredus Asset Management LLC (TVAM). They renamed their name into Todd Asset Management in 2013. TAM provides advisory services to individual and institutional clients.

Citi Fund Services, Inc. acts as domestic and international investment managers. It offers administration and accounting, transfer agency and shareholder services. The company was founded on October 1, 1993 and is headquartered in Columbus, OH.

Founded in 1976, American National Bank & Trust is an independent locally-owned bank located in Wichita Falls, Texas. The bank is a direct subsidiary of AmeriBancShares, of Delaware, Inc. Their ultimate parent is AmeriBancShares, Inc.

Ziegler Capital Management LLC (ZCM) is an asset management firm headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. The firm was founded in 1991 as the investment management division of the Ziegler Companies. They became a wholly owned subsidiary of Stifel Financial Corp. (NYSE: SF), when it acquired ZCM in 2013. The firm provides tailored investment solutions to a wide range of investors.

Case Western Reserve University provides educational services. It offers a variety of undergraduate degree courses and graduate and professional options such as arts and sciences, dentistry, engineering, law, management, medicine, nursing, social work, and more. The firm also offers dual-degree programs. The company was founded in 1826 and is headquartered in Cleveland, OH.