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Part of ING Groep NV, Lexington Global Asset Managers, Inc. is a company that provides asset management services. The company is based in Saddle Brook, NJ. Lexington Global Asset Managers was acquired by ReliaStar Financial Corp. on July 26, 2000 for $69.92 million.

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.

Crossmark Global Investments, Inc. (Crossmark) is a SEC-registered investment advisor and faith-based boutique investment management firm headquartered in Houston, Texas. The firm was founded in 1987 and is wholly-owned by Crossmark Global Holdings, Inc. Crossmark provides a full suite of investment strategies to institutional investors, financial advisors, and the clients they serve.

Westwood Management Corp. (Westwood) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Dallas, Texas. The firm was founded by Susan Byrne in 1983 and is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Westwood Holdings Group, Inc. (NYSE: WHG). Westwood provides portfolio management services to individuals, investment companies, pension and profit-sharing plans, trusts, estates, charitable organizations, corporations, state and municipal government entities, pooled investment vehicles, and sovereign wealth funds.

Invesco Capital Markets, Inc. provides financial services. It offers investment brokerage services to individual investors. The company is headquartered in Downers Grove, IL.

Gabelli & Company Investment Advisers, Inc. (GCIA) is a SEC-registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in Rye, New York. The firm was founded in 1985 and was formerly known as Gabelli Securities, Inc. They are a wholly owned subsidiary of Associated Capital Group, Inc. (NYSE: AC), ultimately held by GAMCO Investors, Inc. GCIA acts as an investment adviser, either directly or on a sub-advisory basis, to private investment partnerships, offshore pooled investment vehicles, and separately managed accounts (SMAs).

Walrus Partners LLC is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor and wealth management firm headquartered in Golden Valley, Minnesota. The firm was founded in 1997 by Russell Last and Walter Ramsley. Walrus Partners provides management supervisory services to high net-worth individuals, family offices and institutional clients.

G.research (formerly known as Gabelli & Co., Inc.) is a registered institutional research and brokerage firm headquartered in Rye, New York and was founded in 1976. The firm is a subsidiary of Gabelli Securities, Inc. and their ultimate parent is GAMCO Investors, Inc. (NYSE: GBL). G.research has an emphasis on small and mid-cap ideas. Their core competencies include aerospace and defense, automotive aftermarket, food and beverage, gaming and lodging, industrials, media, specialty chemicals, telecom and utilities. They publish daily research notes and full reports utilizing their proprietary Private Market Value (PMV) with a Catalyst methodology.

Founded in 1984, Noble Financial Capital Markets is a broker/dealer headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida. The firm is a subsidiary of Noble Financial Group, Inc. Noble Financial Capital Markets' sales & trading team provides strategic insight and reliable solutions to nearly 500 of the dominant small-cap money managers in North America. They are members FINRA, SIPC and MSRB. Noble Financial Capital Markets offers a full array of investment services with a particular focus on under-followed, undervalued, out-of-favor small-cap emerging growth companies. Their research coverage universe includes healthcare, business services & software, defense/defense technology, energy, enterprise hardware, and media & entertainment.

Nuveen Securities LLC, formerly known as the John Nuveen & Co., Inc., is the brokerage subsidiary of Nuveen Investments, Inc., ultimately held by TIAA Board of Overseers in the US. Headquartered in Chicago, the firm engages in the asset management and related research, as well as the development, marketing, and distribution of investment products and services for the institutional market segments. Investment products and services include closed-end exchange-traded funds, mutual funds and individually managed accounts.

Benjamin F. Edwards & Co., Inc. (BFE) is a SEC-registered investment advisor and broker/dealer headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri. The firm was founded in 2008 by Benjamin Edwards IV and Cynthia Böhme. They are a wholly-owned subsidiary of Benjamin Edwards, Inc. BFE provides advice to a wide variety of clients. Their services are provided through various wrap fee programs.

Stifel, Nicolaus & Co., Inc. (Stifel) is a dual-registered broker-dealer and investment adviser headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri. Founded in 1890, the firm is a subsidiary of Stifel Financial Corp. (NYSE: SF), a financial service holding company. Stifel provides full-service brokerage and investment advisory services to individuals and their families, institutions and businesses, and financial advisors.

Mariner Capital Ventures LLC seeks investment opportunities in companies located in the US. The fund targets companies operating in the fields of manufacturers, value-added distributors and services with revenues of less than $2 million and between negative to $0.5 million in EBITDA. It provides financing for incubation, seed, early and later stage capital requirements with investment size ranging from $100K to $1 million per investment.

Mariner Private Equity LLC (Mariner Private Equity) is a private equity/venture capital subsidiary of Mariner LLC founded in 2006 by Martin Christopher Bicknell and Patrick G. Doherty. The firm is headquartered in Leawood, Kansas.

University of Washington functions as a College/University. The company is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

Plancorp LLC is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor and wealth management firm headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri. The firm was founded by Jeffrey Buckner in 1983 as FFG Plancorp, Inc. and adopted the name Plancorp in 1985. Plancorp provides asset management, financial planning, retirement plan advisors and consulting services, and institutional investment services to individuals, trusts, estates, charitable organizations and corporations and/or other business entities.

Athlon Ventures Management LLC (Athlon Ventures Management) is a venture capital firm founded in 2000. The firm is headquartered in San Franscisco, California.

National Basketball Association (NBA) operates a professional basketball league. The firm is recognized as the national governing body for basketball in the United States. It also operates the Women’s National Basketball Association and the NBA Development League. The company is headquartered in New York, NY.

Adidas USA designs, manufactures & sells sporting shoes, equipment & apparel. The company is headquartered in New York City, NY

Seafood Nutrition Partnership is a private company that produces seafood products. The company is based in Arlington, VA. The company was founded in 2013 by Linda Cornish.

RedChip Independent is an investment research firm located in Maitland, Florida. The firm is a division of RedChip Companies, Inc. and their ultimate parent is ProManage, Inc., an advanced software development process management and consulting firm located in Burlingame, Massachusetts. RedChip provides fundamental research on small-cap companies. They seek to identify undervalued and underfollowed small-cap companies that are profitable or near term profitable and have effective management teams, mass appeal, growing sales and improving margins. After considering these factors and looking at expectations implied by the stock's current price, RedChip issues a strong buy, buy, speculative buy, hold or sell rating. The rating combines the firm's projection of the stock's performance, their assessment of the company's financial strength, their confidence in the company's management team and their confidence in their forecast.

Craig-Hallum Capital Group LLC (Craig-Hallum) is an employee-owned, idea-driven research, trading and investment banking firm headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The firm was founded by Bradley Baker and Kevin Harris in 1997. Craig-Hallum provides research, institutional sales and trading and investment banking services to institutional investors and growth companies.

First Hawaiian Bank offers banking services to consumer and commercial customers including deposit products, loans, wealth management, insurance, trust, retirement planning, credit card and merchant processing services. The company was founded in 1858 and is headquartered in Honolulu, HI.