Suneeta Krish

Newton Investment Management Ltd. (Newton) is the wholly-owned, Great Britain-based investment management subsidiary of Newton Management Ltd., ultimately held by The Bank of New York Mellon Corp. (NYSE: BK) (BNY Mellon) in the US. The firm was founded in 1978 as a joint venture with Scottish insurance broker Reed Stenhouse. In 1986 they were acquired by Alexander & Alexander and were renamed Newton Investment Management. Headquartered in London, Newton provides investment products and services to a wide range of clients, such as pension funds, charities, corporations and individuals (via BNY Mellon). Newton is a signatory to the UN Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI).

ICBC Standard Bank Plc is an investment management firm headquartered in London, UK. Founded in 1987, the firm was formerly known as Standard Bank Plc and renamed into ICBC Standard Bank Plc to incorporate its new shareholding structure in 2015. They are a subsidiary of Industrial & Commercial Bank of China Ltd. (SHA: 601398). ICBC Standard Bank serves its international client base with access to Fixed Income and Currencies (FIC) and commodities products.

Virgin Mobile Latin America, Inc. provides mobile virtual network operating services. It offers voice and data services to mobile users in Latin America. The company was founded by Peter Langkilde, Jay Metcalfe and Philip Wallace in 2010 and is headquartered in Road Town, British Virgin Islands.

Sharpen Technologies, Inc. develops and sells multifaceted contact-center-management software. It offers sales acceleration, contact center, unified communications, integration services, reporting and analytics, and collaborative coaching. The company was founded by Cameron Weeks and Bracken Fields in 2007 and is headquartered in Indianapolis, IN.

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.

FIL Investment Advisors (UK) Ltd. (FIA UK) is a Great Britain-based fund management firm headquartered in Tadworth, Surrey. Founded in 1984, the firm is a wholly-owned subsidiary of FIL Holdings (UK) Limited, which in turn is a wholly-owned subsidiary of FIL Ltd. in Bermuda. FIA UK provides a range of global investment products and services to institutional accounts, mutual funds and other pooled investment vehicles.

Lansdowne Partners (UK) LLP (Lansdowne) is the alternative investment management subsidiary of Lansdowne Partners Ltd., itself a subsidiary of Lansdowne Partners International Ltd. in the Cayman Islands. The firm is headquartered in London and was founded in 1998. Lansdowne provides investment advisory services on a discretionary basis to their clients, which includes commingled investment vehicles intended for institutional investors and other sophisticated investors and investment vehicles formed for particular investors and separately managed accounts for sophisticated financial institutions, including registered investment companies. Lansdowne is a signatory to the United Nations Principles of Responsible Investing (UNPRI).

CCLA Investment Management Ltd. (CCLA) is an independent Great Britain-based specialist investment management firm headquartered in London. The firm was founded in 1987 and formerly known as Hackremco (No. 367) Ltd. and as Church, Charity and Local Authority Fund Managers Ltd. CCLA manages investments for charities, religious organizations and the public sector. They also offer segregated investment management for larger funds and do not offer services to private individuals.

Credit Suisse Securities (Canada) Inc. is a broker/dealer headquartered in Toronto, Ontario with offices worldwide. The firm is a subsidiary of Credit Suisse Group (NYSE: CS). Their equity research equity group engages in a broad range of activities for investors including sales, trading, financing, prime brokerage and market-making in U.S. and international equity and equity related securities, options, futures, risk management and hedging products. Their activities cover both exchange-traded and over-the-counter traded securities, including American depositary receipts, restricted stocks, equity repurchases, block trade executions, program trading executions, equity derivatives and convertible securities. The fixed-income franchise operates as a single, unified platform that handles all fixed-income cash and derivative products. Products and services range from securitization and liability management transactions to sales and trading and superior research.

Acibadem Saglik Hizmetleri ve Ticaret AS engages in the management of private healthcare institutions under the brand Acibadem. It operates through the following segments: Hospital, Health, and Non-Health. The Hospital segment covers management activities of private medical centers and hospitals, located in Turkey and abroad. The Health segment is related to research and development activities in the health and medical technology sectors. The Non-Health segment relates to other activities, including investment, construction, and business development. The company was founded by Çagatay Akçali, Güler Fikretler, Neslihan Küçük, Adnan Biyikbeyi, and Halis Karsu in 1991 and is headquartered in Istanbul, Turkey.

Alantra Capital Privado SGEIC SA (Alantra Capital Privado) is a private equity arm of Alantra Partners SA founded in 1995. The firm is headquartered in Madrid, Spain with offices in Italy and Germany.

Part of McKinsey & Co., Inc., McKinsey & Co., Inc. (United Kingdom) is a consulting firm that helps UK manufacturers embrace new technologies for digital transformation and leadership. The company is based in London, UK. Ruben Schaubroeck, McKinsey Digital's new lead for the UK, Belgium, and Netherlands offices, spoke with Thomas Farrar, a manager of communications in the firm's UK office, about the importance of speed and pace for CEOs in this new growth journey. The British company works with organizations that pursue sustainability, inclusion, and economic growth, all at the same time, to achieve strategic foresight and built-in agility in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic and the new trading relationship with the EU.

AfrAsia Bank Ltd. provides banking services. It offers private banking and wealth management, international banking, corporate and investment banking, and treasury services. The company was founded in January 12, 2007 and is headquartered in Port Louis, Mauritius.

Telefonica Group provides telecommunications services.

Instart Logic, Inc. develops cloud solutions fo web and mobile application performance. The company was founded by Manav Ratan Mital, Raghu Venkat, and Hariharan Kolam and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

Cambridge Epigenetix Ltd. provides epigenetic tools. Its TrueMethyl oxidative bisulfite sequencing, a novel technology that pioneers single-base resolution sequencing of the modified bases hydroxymethyl cytosine and methylcytosine. The firm's TrueMethyl enables analysis of the DNA methylome offers basic research, pharmaceutical discovery and diagnostics and TrueMethyl can be used with methylation arrays and targeted assays. The company was founded by Shankar Balasubramanian, Michael Booth and Bobby Yerramilli-Rao in 2012 and is headquartered in Cambridge, the United Kingdom.

Fundación Telefónica is a private company based in Madrid, Spain. The Spanish company provides social innovation programs based on new technologies and collaborative networks.

Hyper Labs, Inc. operates as an artificial intelligence company specializing in the automation of office work for companies and government organizations. Its product, HS Forms, uses advanced computer vision techniques to process documents, identify content types, and extract the content. The firm also offers HS Freeform, a platform that identifies and extracts all relevant data from unstructured text for straight through processing, and HS Evaluate, an application designed for organizations, which process complex claims or applications that require evaluation and contextual judgment. The company was founded by Krasimir Marinov, Vladimir Tzankov, and Peter Brodsky in 2014 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Airlinq, Inc. engages in the provision of a cloud-based global ecosystem for machine to machine and internet of things devices. It offers a platform for IoT deployment, management, and monetization. Its products include GConnect, GControl, GFusion, and GStack. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Oakland, CA.

Assembly Media Networks, Inc. engages in the provision of online video advertising services. The company was founded by Alex Bogusky, Aquiles La Grave, and Kelly Dotseth and is headquartered in Boulder, CO.

SparkBeyond Ltd. operates AI-powered problem solving platform. Its solutions include insurance, pharmaceuticals, retail, energy, and consumer packaged goods. The company was founded by Sagie Davidovich and Ron Karidi in 2013 and is headquartered in Netanya, Israel.