David W. Hamilton

The California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) is a state-owned pension fund management firm headquartered in Sacramento, California. Founded in 1932, the firm has long been at the forefront of shareholder activism in the US. CalPERS provides retirement and health benefit services to active, inactive and retired employees of California state and local public agencies. They routinely put pressure on companies to achieve better corporate performance corporate governance.

Atherton Capital, Inc. is a private company based in San Bruno, CA and has subsidiaries in the United States.

Cowen & Co. LLC is a SEC-registered broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 2004 and is a subsidiary of Cowen Holdings, Inc., ultimately owned by The Toronto-Dominion Bank (TSE: TD) in Canada. Cowen & Co. offers industry-focused investment banking for growth-oriented companies, domain knowledge-driven research and a sales and trading platform for institutional investors. Their institutional sales and trading business serves both equity and fixed-income clients. Sales and trading execution platform is structured around the following key verticals: (1) healthcare (2) technology, telecommunications and media (TMT) (3) REITs and financials (4) aerospace and defense (5) consumer and (6) alternative energy.

Wedbush Securities, Inc. is a full-service investment bank and brokerage firm headquartered in Los Angeles, California. The firm was founded in 1955 as Wedbush Morgan Securities, Inc. They are a subsidiary of Wedbush Financial Services LLC, which is owned by Wedbush, Inc. Wedbush Securities provides a wide range of securities brokerage, wealth management, and investment banking services to private and institutional clients. Their research focuses on providing coverage of small and mid-sized companies in the following industries: (1) consumer products and services (2) technology (3) entertainment and media (4) life sciences and (5) industrial growth and clean technology.

Bailard, Inc. is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Foster City, California. The firm (formerly Bailard, Biehl and Kaiser prior to its re-naming in 2005) was founded in 1969 by three graduates of the Stanford Graduate School of Business. They are a wholly owned subsidiary of BB&K Holdings, Inc. Bailard provides investment advisory and financial planning services and offers single asset strategies to investors on a standalone basis. The firm manages separate accounts for institutional clients and provides advisory and sub-advisory services to pooled investment vehicles.

Glass, Lewis & Co. LLC (Glass Lewis) is an independent investment research firm headquartered in San Francisco, California. The firm was founded in 2003 by Kevin J. Cameron & Gregory P. Taxin. Glass Lewis provides investment research and advice on proxy votes to institutional investor and?publicly listed?companies. Their clients include pension plans, mutual funds, and asset managers.

Upgrade, Inc. operates as an online lending platform that combines personal loans with free credit monitoring. It has offices in Phoenix and San Francisco. The company was founded by Renaud Laplanche, Jeff Bogan, Tim Bogan, Matt Wierman, Visar Nimani, Adelina Grozdanova and Soul Htite and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Passport Capital LLC (Passport) is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in San Francisco, California. The firm was founded in 2000 by John H. Burbank III. Passport serves as the investment manager to privately offered pooled investment vehicles.

Intel Capital Corp (Intel Capital) is a venture capital subsidiary of Intel Corp founded in 1991 by Les Vadasz, and Avram Miller. The firm is headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware.

Peking University provides post-secondary education services. It offers undergraduate and graduate courses. It provides courses such as basic and applied sciences, social sciences and the humanities, sciences of medicine, management, and education. The company was founded by JiaNai Sun in 1898 and is headquartered in Beijing, China.

Menlo Ventures Management LP (Menlo Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 1976 by DuBose Montgomery. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Blumberg Capital LLC (Blumberg Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 1991 by David Blumberg. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Hines Interests LP operates as a privately owned international real estate firm. It offers investment, development, and management projects. The firm's portfolio of projects include skyscrapers, corporate headquarters, mixed-use centers, industrial parks, medical facilities, and master-planned resort and residential communities. The company was founded by Gerald D. Hines in 1957 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

Cornerstone Research, Inc. provides testimony, economic and financial analysis to attorneys. Its services include consulting to attorneys, developing case strategies, supporting expert witness, conducting research and analysis, consulting on internal and regulatory inquiries, consulting in motion practice and preparing for deposition and trail. The company was founded by James K. Malernee Jr. and Cynthia L. Zollinger in May 1989 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

The National Academy of Medicine (United States) is based in Washington and is focused on improving the health and well-being of individuals through various initiatives. These initiatives include the clinician well-being collaborative, which aims to accelerate the implementation of a national plan for health workforce well-being, and the development of a code of conduct for the use of artificial intelligence in health care. The organization also provides resources to support meaningful community engagement in health and health care programs and policies. Recently, the National Academy of Medicine announced the appointment of Mandy Cohen, a member of the organization, as the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Additionally, the organization has released a publication celebrating 50 years of progress in biomedical science, health, and health care.

The World Economic Forum USA, Inc. operates an organization for economic reforms. The non-profit company is based in New York, NY.

GHBC Groupe, Inc. operates a shopping website which provides merchandise, clothing, home decor, food and travelling services. It offers furniture, sports sedans, bedding, rugs, lighting, décor, kitchen and dining products. The firm also provides redeem points to its customers. The company was founded in November 2007 by Alexandra Wilkis Wilson, Michael Bryzek, Alexis Maybank, Dwight A. Merriman, Phong Nguyen and Kevin P. Ryan and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Lendio, Inc. operates as an online loan application and lending platform. It provides information on business loan types such as acquisition loan, business financing, cash advance, commercial real estate, equipment financing, microloan, franchise loan, start-up loan and business loans for women. The company was founded by Brett Child, Brock J. Blake, Levi King and Trent Miskin in 2005 and is headquartered in South Jordan, UT.

HCAP Partners LLC (HCAP Partners) is a private equity subsidiary of Hamilton Lane, Inc. founded in 2000 by Morgan L. Miller and Barry A. Wilson. The firm is headquartered in San Diego, California.

Rain the Growth Agency provides advertising services. Its services include transactional brand building, digital and customer relationship management programs, and media management database and optimization platform. It also offers end-to-end direct response solution from brand strategy and creative, production, post-production, media, and analytics. The company was founded by Timothy O'Leary and Michelle Cardinal in 1998 and is headquartered in Portland, OR.

AH Capital Management LLC (AH Capital Management) is a venture capital firm founded in 2009 by Marc Lowell Andreessen and Ben A. Horowitz. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

Accenture LLC operates as a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company. The company is headquartered in Reston, VA.

Nokia of America Corp. develops and provides networking and communications technology, products and services. It offers fixed and mobile broadband, IP and optical technologies. The firm offers a portfolio of solutions and services for telecom services providers, public and private organizations, wireline and wireless operators and enterprises. The company is headquartered in Murray Hill, NJ.

Wells Fargo Securities LLC (WFS) is the broker/dealer subsidiary of EVEREN Capital Corp., ultimately owned by Wells Fargo & Co. (NYSE: WFC). Headquartered in New York, WFS delivers a comprehensive suite of banking, capital markets and advisory solutions, such as a full complement of sales, trading and research capabilities, to corporate, government and institutional clients.

Material Security, Inc. provides software solutions. . The company is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Capsule8, Inc. offers attack protection for linux production environments. Its products include attack responsiveness, workflow integration, stability and reliability. The company was founded by John Viega, Dino Dai Zovi, Brandon Edwards and Pete Markowsky in 2016 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

RangeForce, Inc. develops cloud based cyber security simulation and training platform. It specializes in cyber security, security attack, defense and incident response, threat intelligence, security monitoring, incident response, security simulations, skills assessment and development. The company was founded by Taavi Must, Jaanus Kink and Margus Ernits in 2014 and is headquartered in White Plains, NY.

Signal Sciences Corp. engages in the provision of security software and services. The firm offers a SaaS product for web application defense that prioritizes defensive efforts, impose difficulties on attackers, without breaking real customer traffic and deploys without spending political capital. The company was founded by Andrew Peterson, Nick Galbreath and Zane Lackey in 2014 and is headquartered in Culver City, CA.

Remediant, Inc. offers secureOne a complete defense against compromised credentials and insider threats. The firm provides critical functionality for security teams, particularly as teams adopt data-centric security with fine-grained access control. The company was founded by Paul Lanzi and Timothy Keeler in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Mouro Capital is a venture capital arm of MSM Global Investments LLP founded in 2014. The firm headquartered in London, United Kingdom.