A. Richard Benedek

Founded in 2002, Natixis Securities Americas LLC is an investment bank and SEC-registered broker/dealer headquartered New York City with offices in several leading U.S. cities and affiliate offices in London and Paris. The firm is a division of Natixis and a subsidiary of Natixis SA. Their client base is located throughout North America and Europe and ranges from the largest mutual fund and pension fund managers to specialist hedge funds. Natixis Securities Americas' sales and trading teams are located in New York, Boston, Los Angeles and Houston. Natixis Securities Americas' research efforts focus on identifying new insights about companies that are not fully reflected in their stock prices. The firm also seeks to provide clients with access to the managements of listed companies and to other industry experts. They arrange for such marketing opportunities, in the form of road shows, conferences, meetings and conference calls. Natixis Securities Americas' institutional trading desk offers clients trading capabilities in equities all over the world. The firm focuses on specific global markets to provide clients with the best possible execution worldwide. Natixis Securities Americas employs a transatlantic approach that examines the effects of technological, market and regulatory developments across both continents on the companies under coverage. In the U.S., they provide in-depth sector coverage on energy (oil services, exploration and production, alternative energy and coal), healthcare (large-cap pharmaceuticals, specialty pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, medical devices and healthcare services) and media (media conglomerates, content creators, interactive TV and new media, as well as technical analysis. In Europe, Natixis Securities Americas applies a country-wide approach to all of the key sectors of France, Germany, Austria and Central and Eastern Europe. Combined, the firm's product offering includes more than 600 stocks. Natixis Securities Americas global trading group specializes in the trading, execution and settlement of international equities. The firm provides 24-hour access to 55 global markets. They cater to broker/dealer and institutional clients, providing ADR and ordinary share executions on an agency or proprietary basis. The firm can accommodate most client trading requirements from basket trading to block orders. To complement their international trading reach, Natixis Securities Americas domestic bulletin board trading group currently markets over 2000 U.S.-based companies. The firm offers their clients innovative trading technology through a proprietary Direct Market Access (DMA) platform, Enabler Direct. This product allows immediate access to a variety of liquidity sources through one anonymous interface. Natixis Securities Americas' global brokerage services group offers services to a select group of professional clients. The firm seeks to partner with banks, broker/dealers, hedge funds and high net-worth clients that can utilize their blend of international capabilities and traditional brokerage services to support and enhance their success. Their global brokerage services group is prominent in international securities, equity trading and brokerage operations in over 55 countries around the world. They have experience in both the pre-trade and post-trade requirements in each of these countries.

Founded in 1947 by Oscar Gruss and Emanuel Gruss, Oscar Gruss & Son, Inc. is a full-service broker/dealer located in New York City. The firm offers focused independent research and trading and execution services focusing particularly on special situations and convertibles. They conduct business with major Israeli institutional clients who execute trades in U.S. equities and options. Oscar Gruss & Son also maintains a trading desk in New York solely dedicated to European investors. The firm is a member of the NYSE and the SIPC.

Oppenheimer & Co., Inc. provides security brokerage services. It also offers investment banking and advice to high net worth investors, individuals, businesses and institutions. The company is headquartered in New York, NY.

Balfour Investors, Inc. is a private equity firm that focuses on distressed small to middle market companies. The private company is based in New York, NY. The company's fundamental investing principles have allowed its investors to purchase assets below intrinsic value for over three decades. The founders, Harry Freund and Jay Goldsmith, established the company in 1975.

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.

Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. LP (KKR) is a private equity subsidiary of KKR & Co. Inc founded in 1976 by Henry Kravis, George Roberts and Jerome Kohlberg. The firm is headquartered in New York.

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.

Founded in 1996, Investrend, Inc. is a research firm headquartered in Forest Hills, New York. The firm specializes in an integrated, interdependent approach, pulling together research, broadcast, forums and information platforms as needed to create a cohesive platform to enhance events, conferences, research, publications and information distributions worldwide with services skewed toward shareholder empowerment.

Harter Secrest & Emery LLP is a law firm based in Rochester, NY. Harter Secrest & Emery LLP focuses on listening intently to the needs of their clients and have a team of over 120 attorneys and 42 practice areas to provide the necessary legal talent and experience to achieve results for their clients. The company was founded in 1894. The CEO is Craig S. Wittlin.

Shearman & Sterling LLP provides legal services. It specializes in appellate litigations, capital markets, corporate governance, environmental, finance, international arbitration, investment funds, litigation, mergers and acquisitions, privatization, real estate, and tax. The company was founded by Thomas Shearman in 1873 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Accel-KKR LLC (Accel-KKR) is a private equity firm founded in 2000 by Thomas Barnds. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

Semper Capital Management LP (Semper) is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded by John Utendahl and Tom Mandel in 1992 and was formerly known as UCM Partners LP and as Utendahl Capital Management LP. Semper offers institutional and high-net-worth individuals multiple securitized debt-centric investment platforms that range from private absolute return and index-based strategies to registered mutual funds and custom managed accounts.

Clickability, Inc. provides demand web content management services. The firm enables customers to take content from any source and publish to any device, managing their entire content repository of digital assets more effectively in the cloud. The company was founded by Jeffrey Freund, John Girard, Sean Noonan and Timur Yarnallin 1999 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Council on Foreign Relations, Inc. provides and disseminates ideas on foreign policies to individuals, corporate members, journalists and policy makers. It operates a forum for government officials, students and other interested parties to study and discuss world issues and impact on American foreign policies. The company publishes Foreign Affairs, a magazine that comes out six times a year, along with books and studies by its own scholars. Council on Foreign Relations was founded in 1921 and is headquartered in New York City, NY.

The National Football Foundation & College Hall of Fame, Inc. promotes and develops amateur football games. It also tabulates and disseminates the weekly standings for college football's bowl championship series. The company was founded in 1947 and is headquartered in Morristown, NJ.

Broadcast Interactive Media LLC provides revenue and technical solutions for local media. Its products include BIMVID, an integrated video platform that provides capture of broadcast video, a web-based editor and publishing system and configurable players that interact with dart and other advertisements trafficking tools and YouNews that allows audience to upload video and photo stories in various categories such as local weather, news and events to local media website. The firm encompasses powerful data tools and management solutions for broadcasters and other media affiliates. The company was founded by Timur Yarnall in 2001 and is headquartered in Madison, WI.

KKR Property Partners Americas Aggregator LP is a real estate investment firm. The private company is based in New York, NY. The CEOs are Joseph Yong Bum Bae and Scott Charles Nuttall. The company was founded in 1976 by George Roberts and Henry R. Kravis.

Castleton Partners LLC (Castleton) is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor and wealth management firm headquartered in Clermont, New York with an additional office in Vero Beach, Florida and New York City. The firm was founded by John Tamagni and Edward Reinoso in 2005. Castleton provides fixed income asset management to high net-worth clients.

Part of Rothschild & Co. The company is based in New York, NY. Continuation Holdings AG, L.F. Rothschild & Co., Inc. is a company that provides banking services.

ICONIQ Capital (ICONIQ) is a private equity and venture capital firm a subsidiary of ICONIQ Capital LLC founded in 2011 by Divesh Kanthylal Makan, Michael Thomas Anders and Chad Louis Boeding. The firm is headquartered in the San Francisco, California.

The WNET Group is a nonprofit public media producer that creates inspiring media content and meaningful experiences for diverse audiences nationwide. The non-profit company is based in New York, NY and is the community-supported home of thirteen channels, including PBS stations, NPR stations, and news programs. The WNET Group's kids media and education team produces the PBS Kids series Cyberchase, interactive Mission US history games, and resources for families, teachers, and caregivers. The WNET Group brings arts, culture, education, news, documentary, entertainment, and DIY programming to more than five million viewers each month through these channels and streaming platforms. The company's award-winning productions include signature PBS series such as Nature, Great Performances, American Masters, and Amanpour and Company, as well as trusted local news programs such as MetroFocus and NJ Spotlight News with Briana Vannozzi. The company presents and distributes content that fosters lifelong learning, including multiplatform initiatives addressing poverty, jobs, economic opportunity, social justice, understanding, and the environment. Through Passport, station members can stream new and archival programming anytime, anywhere. The CEO of the company is Neal Shapiro.

Central Park Conservancy, Inc. maintains and develops the Central Park. It offer lawns pruning, trees fertilization, shrubs and flowers plantation, ball fields and playgrounds maintenance, graffiti removing, and monuments conservation. The firm also provides water bodies and woodlands sanitation, erosion control, drainage cleanliness, pollution control, and salvation prevention services. The company was founded in 1980 and is headquartered in New York, NY.