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Barrow, Hanley, Mewhinney & Strauss LLC, dba Barrow Hanley Global Investors (Barrow Hanley), is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Dallas, Texas. The firm was founded by Michael C. Mewhinney in 1979. They are a subsidiary of Perpetual US Holding Co., Inc., ultimately held by Perpetual Ltd. (ASX: PPT) in Australia. The firm provides US and global equity and fixed income management strategies to institutional investors, mutual funds, and other clients. Barrow Hanley is a signatory to the United Nations' Principles for Responsible Investment (UN PRI).

Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC (Credit Suisse Securities USA) is the broker/dealer division of Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, an investment banking company headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1998 and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Credit Suisse (USA), Inc., ultimately owned by Credit Suisse Group AG (SWX: CSGN) in Switzerland. Credit Suisse Securities USA offers a suite of equities, solutions and credit products and services which includes global securities sales, trading and execution, prime brokerage and comprehensive investment research. Their clients include financial institutions, corporations, governments, institutional investors, such as pension funds and hedge funds, and private individuals around the world.

Stephens, Inc. is a full-service investment bank and brokerage firm headquartered in Little Rock, Arkansas. The firm was founded in 1933 and is a subsidiary of Susi Holdings, Inc., which is owned by Stephens Financial Services LLC. Stephens provides comprehensive securities sales and trading services, including customized solutions for clients in North America and abroad.

UBS Financial Services, Inc. is a registered investment advisor and wealth management firm headquartered in Weehawken, New Jersey. The firm is a wholly-owned subsidiary of UBS Americas Inc., ultimately held by UBS Group AG (SWX: UBSG; NYSE: UBS) in Switzerland. Founded in 1969, UBS Financial Services provides investment advisory services to individuals, banks, thrift institutions, mutual funds and other investment companies, pension and employee benefit plans, trusts, estates, charities, corporations and other business and government entities.

Vaughan Nelson Investment Management LP (Vaughan Nelson) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Houston, Texas. The firm was founded in 1970 and formerly known as Vaughan, Nelson, Scarborough & McCullough LP. They are wholly-owned by Natixis Investment Managers Participations 1, ultimately owned by BPCE SA, a banking group in France. Vaughan Nelson provides investment management services for equity and fixed income portfolios to taxable and tax-free clients such as foundations, endowments, corporations, pensions, public entities, insurance companies, mutual funds and high net-worth individuals.

Highland Capital Management LP (Highland) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Dallas, Texas. The firm was founded by James (Jim) Dondero and Mark Okada in 1993. They are owned by the Highland Claimant Trust. Highland acts as an investment adviser or sub-adviser to structured product vehicles (which include but not limited to CLOs and Collateralized Debt Obligations unregistered investment funds, and single Client accounts).

Frost Bank provides banking services. The company was Founded in 1868 and is San Antonio, TX.

TD Ameritrade, Inc. is an investment brokerage firm headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska. They are a subsidiary of TD Ameritrade Online Holdings Corp., ultimately owned by The Charles Schwab Corp. (NYSE: SCHW). The firm was founded in 1975 and provides online brokerage services to their clients. Customers can manage their investment portfolios via the Internet as well as through personal digital assistants, wireless phone services and interactive voice recognition systems.

FiLIP Technologies, Inc. develops and assembles communication and location based products and services. It develops FiLIP, a wearable smart locator and voice watch for kids that enable children to easily reach parents when need to get in touch and also lets parents to call its children and find its location via an application on Smartphone. The company was founded by Sten Kirkbak in 2009 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Breakout Commerce, Inc. provides custom print fulfillment services. It offers an intuitive application program interface for white-labeled print sales and an application, shopify, which automates product fulfillment and direct sales of merchandise and promotional products. The company was founded by Austen Bernstein, Nick Anderson and Micah Smith in 2015 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Southern Methodist University is a private university near the center of Dallas, SMU offers undergraduate, graduate, and professional programs through seven schools in the humanities and sciences, business, the performing, visual, and communication arts, engineering, education and human development, law, and theology.

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.

Sidoti & Co. LLC (S&C) is a registered broker and equity research firm headquartered in New York City. The firm is a subsidiary of Sidoti Holding Co. LLC and was founded in 1999. S&C provides research exclusively to institutional investors. The firm covers the following sectors: housing, retail, basic industries, technology, business services, capital goods, automotive, computer software, regional banking, telecommunications, entertainment, healthcare and consumer products. Their analysts conduct their own due diligence which includes visiting companies and meeting with operating and financial management. In addition, the firm's analysts focus on fundamentals, particularly cash flow from operations and EPS.

Crestline Investors, Inc (Crestline Investors) is a private equity firm founded in 1997 by Douglas Bratton. The firm is headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas.

Alturus Capital Partners (Alturus Capital Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 2014 by Chad D. Hufsey and Jacob B. Jones. The firm is headquartered in Dallas, Texas.

KEC Ventures (KEC Ventures) is a venture capital subsidiary of KEC Holdings LLC founded in 2011. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Z Capital Group LLC (ZCG) is a SEC-registered investment advisor and alternative investment manager headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded by James Zenni in 2006. ZCG serves as an investment manager and provides discretionary advisory services to pooled investment vehicles and private investment partnerships.

Giraffic Technologies Ltd. offers a disruptive solution for the growing rich media content consumption (primarily video) in the fixed and mobile web. It provides its video acceleration software to OTT Video Apps Providers, as well as to Consumer Electronics Device Manufacturers such as Smart TVs, Set-Top-Boxes, Tablets and Smartphones. The company offers online video sites, IPTV and over-the-top tv operators a distributed streaming technology that accelerates video delivery over the open Internet to their end users, enabling smooth, buffering-free HD and adaptive video streaming. Giraffic Technologies was founded in December 2008 by Yoel Zanger and Gil Gat and is headquartered in Tel-Aviv, Israel.

Fintech Studios, Inc. provides cloud-based network of curated, disruptive FinTech apps, and big-data financial analytic products. curated fintech apps, investment research and big-data analytic services. It offers brokerage, trading, wealth management, banking and asset management, capital markets application, research, news, and financial analytics. The company was founded by Jim Tousignant and Andrew Haines in 2014 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Anagram, Inc. operates as a software company. Its Patch platform enables users to manage and claim filing for out-of network benefits. The company was founded by Brett Plotzker and Jeremy Bluvol and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Ayehu Software Technologies Ltd. provides information technology (IT) process automation and orchestration solutions for IT and security professionals. Its products include process automation, book automation, cyber security incident response, self service portal, and notification and escalation. The company was founded by Gabby Nizri and Yaron Levyon in 2007 and is headquartered in Holon, Israel.

Gruber, Hurst, Johansen & Hail Shank LLP provides law services. The private company is based in Dallas, TX and has subsidiaries in United States.

Alloy Labs LLC is a consortium that helps banks achieve exponential growth by utilizing network effects. The American company works with its members to identify opportunities for differentiation and collaboratively create solutions that provide a competitive advantage.

Allianz Global Investors U.S. LLC (AllianzGI US) is an investment advisory firm headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 2001 as Allianz Global Investors Capital LLC. In 2022, Voya Investment Management Co. LLC, which is ultimately owned by Voya Financial, Inc. (NYSE: VOYA), acquired the firm from Allianz SE (ETR: ALV). AllianzGI US provides portfolio management services to a variety of individual and institutional clients as well as certain Wrap Fee Programs.

NFJ Investment Group LLC (NFJ) is a registered investment advisor headquartered in Dallas, Texas. The firm was founded in 2020 and is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Virtus Partners, Inc., which is wholly-owned by Virtus Investment Partners, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRTS). NFJ provides discretionary and non-discretionary investment management or sub-advisory services to institutional clients and non-institutional clients principally through separate accounts, wrap fee programs and a variety of commingled funds and SEC registered closed-end investment companies.

Founded in 2003, Stockbridge Capital Group is a private equity firm located in San Francisco. They manage the Stockbridge Real Estate Fund I LP, the Stockbridge Real Estate Fund II LP and the Stockbridge Real Estate Fund III LP. The firm manages equity capital commitments for pension funds, private companies and individuals. The firm is headquartered in California.

Ackerman & Co. provides commercial real estate services focusing on brokerage, development, management and investment. The company was founded in 1967 by Charles S. Ackerman and is headquartered in Atlanta, GA.

Tudor, Pickering, Holt & Co. Securities LLC (TPH) is a broker/dealer headquartered in Houston, Texas. The firm was founded in 2007 by Robert Tudor III. They are a subsidiary of Perella Weinberg Partners Group LP, which is ultimately owned by Perella Weinberg Partners (NASDAQ: PWP). TPH provides a full array of trading and execution services for their institutional and corporate clients in the energy sector. They focus on the upstream, midstream and oilfield service sectors.