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Luther King Capital Management Corp. (LKCM) is the investment advisory firm headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas and has additional offices in Austin, San Antonio, and Dallas. The firm was founded in 1979 by J. Luther King, Jr. and is a subsidiary of Southwest JLK Corp. LKCM provides investment advisory services to separately managed portfolios for individuals, trusts, estates, charitable organizations, government entities, corporations and other business entities, foundations, endowments, pension and profit-sharing plans, registered investment companies, and private investment partnership as well as to the LKCM Funds.

CB&I Group, Inc. engages in the provision of engineering, construction, technology, fabrication, remediation and support services. The company was founded by James M. Bernhard Jr. in 1986 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

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.

ZWJ Investment Counsel, Inc. (ZWJ) is a privately-held, SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. The firm was founded in 1974 as Zeliff Wallace Jackson Investment Counsel, Inc. ZWJ provides discretionary asset management services to individual persons, pension and profit-sharing plans, trusts, estates, charitable organizations and corporations or similar business entities.

Gerald L. Ray & Associates Ltd. is a registered investment advisor located in Dallas, Texas. The firm was formed as Gerald L. Ray & Associates, Inc. in 1977. In 2001, the firm was reorganized and became Gerald L. Ray & Associates Ltd. Gerald L. Ray & Associates offers advisory services to individuals, banks, pension and profit sharing plans, trusts, estates, charitable organizations, corporations, and other types of business entities. They do not manage accounts for government entities or pooled investments. ^

Westwood Management Corp. (Westwood) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Dallas, Texas. The firm was founded by Susan Byrne in 1983 and is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Westwood Holdings Group, Inc. (NYSE: WHG). Westwood provides portfolio management services to individuals, investment companies, pension and profit-sharing plans, trusts, estates, charitable organizations, corporations, state and municipal government entities, and pooled investment vehicles.

JPMorgan Securities LLC (JPMS) is a securities brokerage firm headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1985 and is a subsidiary of JPMorgan Broker-Dealer Holdings, Inc., ultimately held by JPMorgan Chase & Co., Inc. (NYSE: JPM). JPMS provides research on fixed income, credit, derivatives, emerging markets, foreign exchange, structured finance, technical analysis and bond indices. Their equity analysts cover equities throughout North America, EMEA, Asia/Pacific and the emerging markets. The firm's fixed income team formulates trading and portfolio recommendations for investors in global bonds and other fixed-income markets based on valuations, analytics and market dynamics.

Fifth Third Securities, Inc. is an SEC-registered broker/dealer and municipal securities dealer located in Cincinnati, Ohio. The firm is a subsidiary of Fifth Third Bancorp (NYSE: FITB). They are affiliated with Fifth Third Asset Management, Inc. Fifth Third Securities offers a full range of brokerage products and services including stocks, bonds and mutual funds. They do not provide any internal research. Clearing services are provided by National Financial Services LLC.

Cushing Asset Management LP is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Dallas, Texas. The firm was founded by Jerry Swank in 2003 and they are a wholly-owned subsidiary of Swank Capital LLC. Cushing Asset Management provides investment management services on a discretionary basis to high net-worth individuals and institutional investors through Private Funds, Mutual Funds, ETFs, Closed-End Funds and Managed Accounts. They also offer discretionary investment management services as part of various wrap fee programs offered by investment advisers/broker-dealers.

Ameriprise Financial Services LLC (AFS) is a registered broker-dealer headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The firm was founded in 1971 and is a subsidiary of AMPF Holding Corp., which is owned by Ameriprise Financial, Inc. (NYSE: AMP). AFS offers brokerage services that enable clients to invest in many different types of investments including mutual funds, stocks, bonds, exchange traded products, unit investment trusts, annuities and alternative investments.

Moody's Investors Service, Inc. is a credit rating and investment research firm headquartered in New York City. They are a subsidiary of Moody's Corp. (NYSE: MCO). The firm performs international financial research and analysis on commercial and government entities and provides a variety of analytic tools for assessing credit risk. Their clients include creditors, investment banks and commercial banks.

Bares Capital Management, Inc. (BCM) is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Austin, Texas. The firm was founded by Brian T. Bares in 2000. The firm provides investment management services predominantly for institutional, pooled investment vehicle, and family office clients, and a small subset of high net-worth individuals and trust programs.

Insight Equity Holdings LLC (Insight Equity) is a private equity firm founded in 2002 by Victor L Vescovo and Ted W. Beneski. The firm is headquartered in Southlake, Texas.

Stockwell Capital LLC (Stockwell Capital) is a private equity subsidiary of Glencoe Ltd founded in 2002. The firm is headquartered in Austin, Texas.

Founded by Lewis Friedland, Cobalt Capital Partners is a real estate private equity firm located in Irving, Texas with additional offices in Atlanta and San Antonio, Texas. The firm was founded in 2002 as a partnership between Lewis D. Friedland and USAA Real Estate Company. They manage the Cobalt Industrial REIT.

North Texas Angel Network Inc (NTAN) is a venture capital firm founded in 2008. The firm is headquartered in Dallas, Texas.

Tritium Partners LLC (Tritium Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 2013. The firm is headquartered in Austin, Texas.

Part of PayPal Holdings, Inc., BlueKite Ltd. develops software applications for online bills payment services. The company is based in Guatemalan City, Guatemala. The Guatemalan company was founded by Bobby Aitkenhead, Jose Vargas. Bobby Aitkenhead has been the CEO since incorporation. BlueKite was acquired by Xoom Corp. on February 04, 2014 for $15 million.

Healthcare Asset Network, Inc. engages in the sale of medical equipment. It specializes in supply chain, e-commerce, overstock, surplus inventory, product conversions, carmax, and stubhub. The company was founded by Kyle Green, Robert J. Brown, and Andrew McCloy in 2013 and is headquartered in Prospect, KY.

Stratos Technologies Capital Management LLC (Stratos Technologies) is a venture capital firm founded in 2016 by Rennick Palley and Mesh Lakhani. The firm is headquartered in Newport Beach, California.

Pleasant Lake Partners LLC is an independent hedge fund management firm headquartered in Rincon, Puerto Rico. The firm was founded by Jonathan Lennon and David Mastrocola in 2012.

Sanders Capital LLC is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in West Palm Beach, Florida. The firm was founded by Lewis A. Sanders in 2009. Sanders Capital provides investment management services to pension and profit-sharing plans, government plans, sovereign wealth funds, investment companies and other collective investment funds, trusts, charitable organizations, insurance companies and other institutional investors.

Bisnow LLC provides news and information for commercial real estate professionals. The company was founded by Elliott Bisnow in 2005 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

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).

Baceline Investments LLC (Baceline Investments) is a private equity firm founded in 2003 by Douglas Arnold, Craig Zoellner and David Puchi. The firm is headquartered in Denver, Colorado.

HedgeMark International LLC is an investment advisor headquartered in New York City with an additional office in Santa Monica, California. The firm is a subsidiary of the Bank of New York Mellon Corp. (NYSE; BK). HedgeMark provides discretionary investment advisory services to single-strategy and multi-strategy U.S. and non-U.S. private investment funds which trade, directly or indirectly, in a variety of securities, futures, derivatives, foreign currency and other instruments. They specialize in providing managed account platforms and risk management systems for a range of institutional investors and fund managers including pension plans, endowments, foundations and funds-of-hedge funds. HedgeMark is affiliated with HedgeMark Risk Analytics LLC, a technology company that specializes in the development and integration of portfolio construction and risk management systems.

Morgan Joseph TriArtisan LLC is an investment and merchant bank engaged in providing financial advice, capital raising and private equity investing. Their services include mergers, acquisitions and restructuring advice and private placements and public offerings of equity and debt. The firm is headquartered in New York City and is a subsidiary of Morgan Joseph TriArtisan Group, Inc. Morgan Joseph TriArtisan was formed in 2010 as the result of a merger between Morgan Joseph & Co. Inc. and TriArtisan Partners LLC. Morgan Joseph TriArtisan is a member of FINRA, the NASD and the SIPC. Morgan Joseph TriArtisan's primary focus is on providing financial advisory and capital raising services in the US, Europe and Asia. This includes mergers and acquisitions advice, restructuring advice, private placements and public offerings of debt and equity. For their institutional clients, Morgan Joseph TriArtisan provides a full range of sales and executions services, including equity research and specialized reports on convertible debt. The firm's sales and trading teams service a variety of institutional clients with both debt and equity investment ideas and trading services. They primarily serve the consumer products, healthcare, automotive, chemical, transportation, construction, entertainment, telecommunications and media industries. Morgan Joseph TriArtisan's debt and equity analysts cover a growing universe of stock and bond issues across a broad range of industry sectors. Their equity research focuses primarily on middle-market companies with limited research and coverage and uses a classic bottom-up qualitative approach. The high-yield department specializes in finding trading opportunities by identifying undervalued and overvalued high-yield debt for institutional clients. They focus on small- to mid-sized issues that are not widely covered and are often mispriced in the market.

Cypress Growth Capital LLC (Cypress Growth Capital) is a private equity firm founded in 2009. The firm is headquartered in Dallas, Texas.