Brian Ruther

Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc. (DBSI) is a SEC-registered broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1971 and is a wholly-owned investment banking and brokerage arm of DB U.S. Financial Markets Holding Corp., ultimately held by Deutsche Bank AG (NYSE: DB, FRA: DBK) in Germany. DBSI provides securities brokerage and investment advisory services to domestic and international private clients and institutions. They are also a primary dealer in US government securities as designated by the Federal Reserve.

Victory Capital Management, Inc. (Investment Management) (Victory Capital-IM) is the investment management division of Victory Capital Management, Inc., a financial services company headquartered in San Antonio, Texas. The firm was founded in 1894 and formerly known as Key Asset Management, Inc. They are an indirect, wholly owned subsidiary of Victory Capital Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: VCTR). Victory Capital-IM provides specialized investment strategies to institutions, intermediaries, retirement platforms and individual investors.

Part of CoreLogic, Inc., First American Capital Management, Inc. is a financial services company that provides investment management services to institutional clients. The company is based in Newport Beach, CA.

Charity Deposits Corp. provides bank deposit management services for investors and banks. It offers investing, funding, and fee income solutions through money market deposit programs. The firm also provides Target Account and Money Market Account Xtra (MMAX). The company was founded on May 1, 2000 and is headquartered in Miami, FL.

D&L Energy, Inc. provides natural gas and oil exploration services. Its services include mineral rights leasing, geological surveying, engineering, drilling, completion, field operations and selling natural gas. The company was founded by Ben Lupo in 1986 and is headquartered in Youngstown, OH.

Cohen & Co. provides accounting services. The firm offers services in the areas of investment industry, private company, and management advisory. Its services include collective investment trust, enterprise tax solutions, ownership succession, management consulting, and business valuation. The company was founded by Ron Cohen in 1977 and is headquartered in Cleveland, OH.

The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants provides vocational education in accounting. The company provides services to the accounting community, regulatory bodies, and other organizations. It also operates in Jersey City, Washington, and Lewisville. It was founded in 1887 and is headquartered in New York City, NY.

Stout Risius Ross, Inc. engages in the provision of financial advisory services. It specializes in investment banking, valuation and financial opinions, and dispute advisory and forensic services. It offers services such as mergers and acquisitions, private market financings, distressed transaction advisory, fairness opinions and solvency opinions, securities and value analytics, succession and shareholder planning, real estate valuation, bankruptcy related valuation, antitrust disputes, commercial disputes, family law valuation, and fraud and forensic services. The company was founded by Craige L. Stout in 1991 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Community Bank of the Bay engages in the provision of banking services. The company offers financial services to businesses, professional service firms, and owner-operators and non-profit organizations in the San Francisco Bay area. Its services include business, personal, and non-profit banking, and credit services such as checking, money markets and certificate of deposits, loans, and cash management. The company was founded by Frank Tsai on July 22, 1996 and is headquartered in Oakland, CA.

Case Western Reserve University provides educational services. It offers a variety of undergraduate degree courses and graduate and professional options such as arts and sciences, dentistry, engineering, law, management, medicine, nursing, social work, and more. The firm also offers dual-degree programs. The company was founded in 1826 and is headquartered in Cleveland, OH.

Global Factory, Inc. provides collaborative manufacturing execution systems. The firm's software gather, organize & analyze demand, production & quality data from various sources and monitor key indicators & execute business processes to control, manage & optimize distributed manufacturing operations. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

KeyBank, NA engages in the provision of commercial banking services. The company was founded on January 1, 1849 and is headquartered in Cleveland, OH.

The Babcock & Wilcox Co. manufactures and designs steam generating systems for thermal power plant. The company is headquartered in Barberton, OH.

Founded in 1958, Merrill Lynch Piece Fenner & Smith, Inc. is an SEC registered broker/dealer located in New York City. The firm is a subsidiary of BAC North America Holding Co. and their ultimate parent is Bank of America Corp. (NYSE BAC).

Idaho First Bank engages in the provision of commercial banking services. It offers personal and business deposit products, including checking, savings, and money market accounts. The company also provides personal lending services, such as home mortgage and custom construction, home equity lines of credit, home equity, personal lines of credit, auto, and other secured personal loans; and commercial loans comprising working capital lines of credit, asset based lines of credit, equipment lines of credit, owner occupied commercial real estate loans, investor commercial real estate loans, equipment financing, airplane financing, SBA guaranteed loans, USDA B&I guaranteed loans, and letters of credit, as well as mortgage lending services. In addition, it offers credit cards; online and mobile banking services; and cash management services consisting of deposit and sweep services, payments and transfers, and fraud protection services. The company was founded by Greg Lovell on March 2, 2005 and is headquartered in McCall, ID.

Keystone Bank, SSB provides banking services. It offers business loans, home loans, and online banking. The company was founded by Jeffrey A. Wilkinson in 2018 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

United Security Bank operates as a state chartered commercial bank. It offers online banking, online bill payment, 24-hr full service ATM’s, wire transfer services, safe deposit boxes, merchant card services, money orders and cashiers checks, wealth management services, courier services, remote capture and cash management. The company was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in Fresno, CA.

M7 Ventures LLC (M7 Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 1900. The firm is headquartered in Akron, Ohio.

JumpStart Ventures /Ohio/ (JumpStart Ventures) is a venture capital subsidiary of JumpStart, Inc. founded in 2004 by David Lasner. The firm is headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio.

Grey Mountain Partners LLC (Grey Mountain Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 2003 by Jeff Kuo and Rob Wright. The firm is headquartered in Boulder, Colorado.

Clearstead Advisors LLC, dba Clearstead Hartland & Co. LLC (Clearstead), is an institutional investment consulting and private wealth management firm headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio. The firm was founded in 1989 as Hartland & Co. LLC and changed their legal name to Clearstead Advisors LLC in 2018. They are owned by Hartland Management Investors LLC (HMI), which holds the shares of Clearstead’s employees with approximately 40% ownership and Flexpoint Ford LLC, through the entity Moses Buyer Holdings LLC with approximately 60% ownership. Clearstead provides advisory services to corporate, private and public employee retirement funds (pension and savings plans); endowments and foundations; operating funds for non-profit and for-profit organizations, healthcare organizations and insurance companies; sub-advisor investment management services; and private clients (families, individuals and related entities).

EnerVest Ltd (EnerVest) is a private equity firm founded in 1992 by John B. Walker and Jon Rex Jones. The firm is headquartered in Houston, Texas.

EV Management LLC develops and explores oil and gas. The private company is based in Houston, TX. The CEOs of the company are Mark A. Houser, Michael E. Mercer.