Cesar J. Richardson

Dow Jones & Co., Inc publishes financial information and news. It offers news through newspapers, newswires, websites, apps, newsletters, magazines, proprietary databases, conferences and more. The firm?s premier brands include The Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones Newswires, Factiva, Barron's, MarketWatch and SmartMoney. The company was founded by Edward Davis Jones, Charles Henry Dow and Charles Milford Bergstresser in 1882 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Bloomberg Tradebook LLC provides electronic trading services. It offers services to institutional traders, broker-dealers, plan sponsors, market makers, and hedge fund & portfolio managers with direct and anonymous access to equities, futures and foreign exchange markets. The firm also offers equity brokerage services, execution and settlement commission management services. The company was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Susquehanna Financial Group LLLP (SFG) is an institutional broker-dealer headquartered in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania. The firm was founded in 2002 and is a direct subsidiary of SFG Holding LLC, which is owned by Bodel, Inc. SFG offers a full range of order execution and trading flow services, with a focus on delivering innovative trading strategies and execution services to institutional clients.

Westmount Asset Management LLC (Westmount) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Los Angeles, California. The firm was founded by Robert A. Berliner and James E. Berliner in 1990. Westmount provides various investment advisory services to pension and profit-sharing plans, non-profits, estates and trusts, corporations, partnerships and individuals.

TradingScreen, Inc. provides electronic trading products and services. It delivers a proven execution management platform and a global network to access any market, any counterparty and trade any financial instrument, anywhere. The company was founded by Philippe Buhannic and Joseph Ahearn in 1999 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Strands, Inc. develops software solutions. It offers personal financial management, business financial management, customer linked offers, recommender, and meta-aggregation. The company was founded by Matthew McLaughlin and Francisco J. Martin in 2004 and is headquartered in Miami, FL.

SunGard Trading & Risk Systems provides software services. Its services include financial and energy trading, risk management, asset liability management and financial planning, and forecasting software. The firms products include BancWare, Infinity, Monis, and TrueCalc. The company is headquartered in Boston, MA.

CreditSights, Inc. is an independent investment research firm headquartered in New York City. The firm was co-founded by Paul Ciasullo, Reena Mithal, Glenn Reynolds and Peter Petas in 2000. They are a subsidiary of Fitch Group, Inc., ultimately owned by The Hearst Family Trust. CreditSights provides fundamental, in-depth credit research for buy-side decisionmakers, sell-side intermediaries and wealth managers and private banks globally. The firm actively covers more than 5,000 companies in North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific representing over 56 countries.

Barclays Capital, Inc. is a registered broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1997 and is a subsidiary of Barclays Group US, Inc., ultimately owned by Barclays plc (LON: BARC) in Great Britain. Barclays Capital provides large corporate, government and institutional clients a full spectrum of prime brokerage services which includes equities and fixed income financing, OTC Clearing, Futures and Foreign Exchange Prime Brokerage and access to industry insights and analytics from their Strategic Consulting team.

Clever Global Iberia SA is a holding company engaged in the development and provision of enterprise management software platforms to clients in the finance, insurance, logistics, pharmaceuticals, communications, and consumer goods manufacturing industries. It offers solutions for electronic invoicing, customer support, business intelligence management, and mobile productivity. The firm also provides technical consulting and custom development services. The company was founded by Francisco J. Martin in 1999 and is headquartered in Sant Cugat del Valles, Spain.

S&P Global Market Intelligence, Inc. provides integrated financial information and technology solutions. It provides data and analytics for global financial professionals. The firm works with different client firms, including investment banks, asset management firms, private equity firms, universities, and corporations. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Cornell University is an educational institution that offers undergraduate and post graduate programs. It was founded in 1865 and is based in Ithaca, NY.

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.

Citigroup Private Bank is the private banking subsidiary of Citigroup, Inc. (NYSE: C) in the US. Headquartered in New York City, the firm serves worldly and wealthy individuals and their families with a customized private banking service that crosses borders. They also provide services to professional investors, family offices, and lawyers and law firms.

Top Up TV Europe Ltd. provides television broadcasting services. It allows customers to add various digital channels to their free view package. The company was founded by Ian Christopher West in 2003 and is headquartered in St. Helier, Jersey.

Founded by Len Zacks in 1978, Zacks Investment Research, Inc. is an SEC-registered broker/dealer and investment research firm headquartered in Chicago, Illinois with an office in Irvine, California. The firm is principally owned by The Greenwood Trust. Zacks makes both short-term and long-term investment recommendations using the following investment styles: aggressive growth, growth/income, momentum, value, technicals and options. Zack Investment Research employs the Zacks Rank, a 100% a peerless stock rating system that is based on a quantitative model that includes the use of four factors including as earnings estimate revisions and earnings surprises. Stocks are classified into five groups, ranging from 'Strong Buy' to 'Strong Sell.' Zacks Rank is completely mathematical and focuses only on the math and whether the math predicts that a stock's price will rise. It is a short-term indicator of stock performance that is effective for 1 to 3 months. The Zacks Recommendation process begins with a new quantitative model that employs the Zacks Rank. The firm then utilizes qualitative insights to develop a unique recommendation based on a 6 month time horizon. Zacks Investment Research provides coverage primarily on the following sectors: (1) manufacturers of electrical components (2) photo optics/lasers (3) HPC computing platforms (4) manufacturers and distributors of textiles (5) information technology (6) independent oil and gas companies involved in the exploration, development and acquisition of crude oil and natural gas (6) providers of docking, manipulator and wafer probing interface products for semiconductor and ATE manufacturers (7) companies that design and manufacture oscilloscopes, serial data analyzers and protocol analyzers to test, measure and analyze electronic signals (8) manufacturers of branded toys, collectibles, hobby or infant products and (9) financial services companies.

Founded in 2004, SagePoint Financial, Inc. is a dually-registered SEC-registered investment advisor and broker-dealer headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona. The firm is a subsidiary of Advisor Group, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Advisor Group Holdings, Inc., which is owned by a consortium of investors that includes Lightyear Fund III LP (an investment fund affiliated with Lightyear Capital LLC) and PSPIB Lunar Investments Inc. (a wholly-owned vehicle of the Public Sector Pension Investment Board). SagePoint Financial was formerly known as AIG Financial Advisors.

Minnesota Steel Industries LLC manufactures steel. It incorporated the commercially available technology in mining, concentrating, pellet plant, DRI and electric arc steelmaking on a single site, making it one of the lowest cost steel producers in the world. The company is headquartered in St. Paul, MN.

Transcom Worldwide GmbH provides customer relationship management (CRM) solutions including telemarketing and operates call centers. Its services include inbound communications, telemarketing and outbound communications, administrative tasks, web servicing, legal services and credit management services. The company is headquartered in Vienna, Austria.

eStandards Forum, Inc. provides investment services. The company is headquartered in New York, NY.

Ascend Consulting designs, develops, and delivers technology solutions. It offers business processes and information technology solutions. The company provides services to the financial, insurance, and other commercial industries. Ascend Consulting was founded by Karl Pessinis, Robert Ryan and Charles E. Fieramosca in 2002 and is headquartered in Waltham, MA.

Founded in 2012, Marketfield Asset Management LLC is a registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager located in New York City. The firm provides investment advisory services to one investment fund, the Marketfield fund, a series of the Trust for Professional Managers, an open-end mutual fund.

S&P Dow Jones Indices provides index-based concepts, data, and research to the financial market. Its stock market indices are used as benchmarks and as the basis of investable products, such as exchange-traded funds, mutual funds, and structured products. The company was founded in July 2012 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Red-M Wireless Ltd. provides wireless consulting, systems integration, and network service. The company was founded by Michael Stewart Norfield on September 4, 2009 and is headquartered in Derby, the United Kingdom.

CIS Holdings Ltd. engages in the provision of investment banking services. It focuses on securities, futures contracts, bonds, share options, underwriting and placing, and the asset management business. The company was founded on February 19, 2014, and is headquartered in Hong Kong.