Brian Ferdinand

General Electric Capital Corp. provides financial products and services. Its services include commercial loans and leases, fleet management, financial programs, credit cards, personal loans, and other financial services. The firm’s solutions include energy finance and aviation finance. The company was founded in 1943 and is headquartered in Norwalk, CT.

Goldman Sachs Execution & Clearing LP (GSEC) is an SEC-registered broker/dealer headquartered in New York City and was founded in 1931. The firm is a subsidiary of Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE: GS). GSEC provides brokerage services to their clients.

Founded in 1922, Weeden & Co. LP is a broker/dealer headquartered in Greenwich, Connecticut with additional offices in Boston, Chicago, Minneapolis and San Francisco. The firm offers a full array of investment services with independent value-added research covering various sectors. Weeden's research goal is to produce independent, actionable long/short ideas that are free from the inherent conflicts created by investment banking. The firm vigilantly monitors proprietary, quantitative and fundamental indicators across all asset classes to identify and communicate important inflection points within the marketplace to clients. Their equities trading division specializes in difficult-to-execute orders. They are a member of the FINRA, NASDAQ and the SIPC.

ECHOtrade LLC is a proprietary trading firm. The private company is based in Chicago, IL. The company was founded by Brian Ferdinand, Robert D. Keller.

Part of UBS Group AG, Special Situations Holdings, Inc. is an insurance holding company. The company is based in New York, NY.

BDI Partners LP provides financial brokerage services. It derives revenues from the sale of listed and unlisted securities, insurance products, investment banking, principal transactions, and distributes mutual fund shares. The company is headquartered in New York, NY.

Armada Water Assets, Inc. engages in the collection, handling, transport, treatment and reuse of contaminated water. It operates through four segments: Texas Water Logistics, Colorado Water Treatment and Disposal, Colorado Water Logistics and Corporate. The company’s services include fluids transport, water sale, water treatment, subsurface disposal and water logistics. Armada Water Assets was founded on October 23, 2012 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

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.

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.

Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe (WCAS) is a private equity firm founded in 1979 by Patrick Welsh, Russ Carson and Bruce Anderson. 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.

APX, Inc. provides innovative technology and service solutions to the energy and environmental markets. Its services include spans transaction management, registries, scheduling, settlements, demand-side management, asset control, analytics, operations, exchanges, clearing, and brokerage. The company was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

The New York Mercantile Exchange, Inc. provides markets for the trading and clearing of crude and heating oil, gasoline, natural gas, and electricity. The company is headquartered in New York, NY.

Sullivan & Cromwell LLP provides legal services. It specializes in the areas of corporate law, securities, corporate, litigation, mergers, real estate, pro bono, investment management and taxation. Their clients include industrial, commercial, financial, private funds, governmental, educational, charitable and cultural enterprises and entities. The company was founded by Algernon Sydney Sullivan and William Nelson Cromwell in 1879 and is headquartered in New York City, NY.

Chicago Board of Trade provides trade derivative facilities. It allows speculators throughout the world to interpret economic data, news, and other information. The company was founded on April 3, 1848 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Holden LLC engages in the provision of consulting services. It offers clients an integrated platform of sales transformation components, including sales practices, training, manager coaching, software and e-learning reinforcement, and competitive deal coaching. The firm offers its services in the areas of opportunity and account management, territory and channel management, advanced business development, and marketing alignment. The company was founded by Jim Francis Holden and Christine F. Holden in 1979 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Cantor Fitzgerald LP provides brokerage services. It offers capital market, investment banking and portfolio business services. The company was founded in 1945 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Part of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., Aron & Co., Inc. is a commodities trading company. The company is based in New York, NY.

Long Island Philharmonic, Inc. engages in music industry. The company was founded by Harry Chapin and Christopher Keene in 1979 and is headquartered in Melville, NY.

Island Harvest Ltd. provides community food services. The firm is a hunger relief organization which serves as the bridge between those who have surplus food and those who need it. It collects surplus food from local restaurants, caterers, farms and other food-related businesses and distribute it to a network of soup kitchens, food pantries and other places where those in need can access it. The company was founded by Linda Breitstone in 1992 and is headquartered in Bethpage, NY.

NIC Holding Corp. operates as a holding company that specializes on petroleum bulk stations. The company is headquartered in Melville, NY.

The Israel Museum is a cultural institution. The museum was founded by Teddy Kollek in 1965 and is headquartered in Jerusalem, Israel.

Aspen Art Museum is an artist-founded institution that supports artists in developing bold ideas to shape the field of art. The museum is based in Aspen, CO. The museum is exhibition-focused and non-collecting, making strong commitments to meaningful exchange and driving cultural change.

Centurion Venture Partners LLC (Centurion Venture Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 2011. The firm is headquartered in New York.

NYSE Blue, Inc. provides innovative technology and service solutions to the energy and environmental markets. The company was founded on February 22, 2011 and is headquartered in Hoboken, NJ.