Ross Evan Lipson

Nomura Securities International, Inc. (NSI) is a registered broker/dealer headquartered in New York City and was founded in 1969. The firm is a division of Nomura Holding America, Inc. and their ultimate parent is Nomura Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: NMR, TYO: 8604, AMS: 8604). NSI provides securities brokerage services, as well as asset management, domestic retail, global markets, global investment banking and global merchant banking services. The firm's fixed-income business consists of bond sales and trading, origination and product supply for securitization deals and real estate-focused asset finance operations (in cooperation with Investment Banking). In the equity markets, NSI offers sales and trading of domestic and foreign stocks on a global basis, primarily for institutional investors.

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

Provident Group is a boutique investment banking and advisory firm founded in 1998 by Wall Street veterans, dedicated to servicing the middle markets within the Americas and other select emerging markets through the structuring and private placement of client transactions. Provident Group has a highly articulated global network of relationships with institutional investors with which it places its transaction flow, consisting primarily of large macro and emerging market hedge funds, private equity funds, pension funds and insurance companies. Provident Group's most valuable asset is it professional team, drawn from top buy and sell side Wall Street firms including Lehman Brothers, Salomon Brothers, Bear Stearns, JP Morgan and Deutsche Bank Capital Partners.

Business News Americas Ltda. provides online business news services. It offers daily business information and intelligence on Latin America. Its services include the publication of analytical reports, news, statistical data, project, and company profiles covering 10 industrial sectors – mining and metals, electric power, oil and gas, infrastructure, water and waste, petrochemicals, ICT, banking, insurance, and privatization. The company was founded by Greg Barton in 1996 and is headquartered in Santiago, Chile.

Intrinsic Capital Partners is a private equity/venture capital firm founded by Gerald Stahlecker, Cornelius Merlini, and Howard Goodwin. The firm is headquartered in Conshohocken, Pennsylvania.

Alternate36, Inc. engages in the operation of a cannabis dispensary. It enables consumers purchase cannabis products in-store and online. The company was founded by Kenneth Ramirez and Lauren Murphy and is headquartered in Tempe, AZ.

WPMC Fund (WPMC) is a venture capital firm founded in 2019 by Trent Brown. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Scout VC LLC (Scout ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2009 by Brad C. Harrison. The firm is headquartered in New York.