Alan Kessler

Wells Fargo Bank, NA provides investment advisory services. It offers banking, insurance, investments, mortgage, and consumer finance services. The company is headquartered in Sioux Falls, SD.

Scale Management LLC (Scale Management) is a venture capital firm founded in 1995 by Kate D. Mitchell and Anchie Y. Kuo. The firm is headquartered in Foster City, California.

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.

University of Southern California is a private research university that mainly offers undergraduate, graduate & other higher education. The university was founded in 1880 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

Neville Chemical Co. manufactures synthetic hydrocarbon and coumarone-indene resins. Its products include DCPD resins, c9 resins, c5 resins, indene resins, epoxy modifiers and diluents. The company was founded in 1925 by Harvey Dauler, William Gardiner and Edwin Hodge and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA.

Founded in 1986, Merriman Capital, Inc. is an SEC-registered broker/dealer and investment banking firm headquartered in San Francisco. The firm is a subsidiary of Merriman Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: MERR), a financial services firm that focuses on fast-growing companies and their institutional investors. Merriman provides advisory and investment banking, equity research, institutional services, corporate services and venture services primarily to corporate clients. Merriman Capital provides research, brokerage and trading services primarily to institutional clients. The firm offers a full range of specialized and integrated services including: equity research, specialized trade execution, equity capital markets, corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, sales and trading, market making, corporate and venture services, restructurings and strategic advisory services. Merriman Capital employs bottom-up, fundamental analysis of small-cap companies in select industries including clean technology, healthcare, technology and consumer/Internet/media. The firm also has expertise in emerging markets, with emphasis on emerging markets in China. Merriman Capital is known to engage in shareholder activist investment strategies. Merriman Capital is a member of the NASD, the SIPC and FINRA. The firm serves as an introducing broker/dealer for Pershing LLC. They do not hold or maintain funds or securities or provide clearing services for other broker/dealers.

African Agriculture, Inc. engages in commercial farming, fishery logistics and management, and carbon offset production. Its products include Alfalfa supreme, premium, and first grade. The company was founded on May 7, 2021 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Miami Country Day School, Inc. is a non-profit organization, which engages in the provision of education services. It offers services relating to academics, lower school, middle school, upper school, learning resources, and college counseling. The company was founded in 1938 and is headquartered in Miami, FL.

Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Southeastern Pennsylvania engages in investment and advisory services. It provides capital to information technology, health, manufacturing, energy, and physical sciences industries. The company is headquartered in Philadelphia, PA.

National Association of Securities Professionals is a Non-Profit Organization, which assists people to achieve inclusion in the financial services industry. The company was founded by Maynard H. Jackson, Felicia Flowers-Smith, Joyce M. Johnson & Donald Davidson in 1985 and is headquartered in Washington, DC.

Citigroup Global Markets Ltd. (Israel) (Citi Israel) is the Israeli broker/dealer division of UK-based Citigroup Global Markets Ltd., ultimately held by Citigroup, Inc. (NYSE: C) in the US. Headquartered in Tel Aviv, the firm is a primary dealer for Israeli government bonds, a licensed market maker for Shekel currency trading and trades all Shekel derivative products for large local corporate and institutional clients as well as other international players. Citi Israel offers its local clients a fully-fledged suit of products to service their needs including currency, fixed income, equity and commodities and their derivatives.

World Learning, Inc. provides education, exchange, and development programs. The firm operates through five divisions: The Experiment in International Living, SIT Graduate Institute, SIT Study Abroad, International Honors Program, and International Development and Exchange Programs. The company was founded in 1932 and is headquartered in Brattleboro, VT.

Beehive Industries LLC operates as an infrastructure and asset management software company. It offers BeehiveStorm, a water management system for flood mitigation; BeehiveWater, a solution for management of pipes, valves, hydrants, fittings, wells, curb stops, meters, and laterals; and BeehiveWastewater, a system to manage manholes, lift stations, mains, laterals, and cleanouts. The company was founded by William Sheldon in 2011 and is headquartered in Lincoln, NE.

Volition Capital LLC (Volition Capital) is a venture capital & private equity firm founded in 2010 by Larry Cheng, Roger Hurwitz, Geraldine Alias, Sean Cantwell and Rob Ketterson. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Xponance, Inc. is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The firm was founded by Tina Byles Williams in 2005 as FIS Group, Inc. They provide portfolio management services to state, municipal and corporate pension plans, profit-sharing plans, Taft-Hartley plans, municipalities, corporations, foundations, endowments, private investment funds, pooled investment vehicles, and high net-worth individuals.