Eerick Giles

Part of Gates Industrial Corp. Plc, L.E. Technologies, Inc. is a company that manufactures automobile parts, trailers, and various industrial equipment. The company is based in White Pigeon, MI. L.E. Technologies was acquired by Dexter Axle Co. from Mellon Financial Corp. on March 18, 2005.

Paramount Cards, Inc. produces & markets greeting cards. The company makes and sells a variety of everyday and seasonal greeting cards, with a focus on lower priced and discounted cards for independent and small- to medium-sized card stores, drugstores, supermarkets and dollar/value store chains. The company also operates the CardSmart retail chain, a group of franchised and company-owned card and gift stores. The company was founded in 1906 and is located in Pawtucket, RI.

Headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Mellon Ventures, inc. is the private equity investment partnership affiliated with Mellon Financial Corp. (NYSE: MEL)

1919 Investment Counsel LLC (1919ic) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland. The firm was founded in 2005 and is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Stifel Financial Corp. (NYSE: SF). On November 2014, Stifel acquired 1919ic from Legg Mason, Inc. Prior to and as a result of this acquisition, the firm changed its name from Legg Mason Investment Counsel LLC to 1919 Investment Counsel LLC. 1919ic provides comprehensive investment counsel services to both individual and institutional clients, and financial planning and family office services to individual clients.

In 1915 Charles Edward Merrill founded Merrill Lynch & Co. (NYSE: MER) with Edmund C. Lynch in Baltimore, Maryland. The modern Merrill Lynch was formed in 1940 through mergers with E.A. Pierce & Cassatt and, soon after, Fenner & Beane. In 1973, Merrill Lynch adopted a holding company format, with Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. as the parent and Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith as the operating subsidiary. Merrill Lynch Asset Management, Inc. (MLAM) was created as an integral business unit in the Merrill Lynch family in 1976. Fund Asset Management, doing business as Mercury Asset Management, was acquired in December 1997. In 2000, MLAM and Mercury were combined under the name Merrill Lynch Investment Managers. MLAM manages the Merrill Lynch family of mutual funds, as and acts as sub-advisor to other mutual funds.

Physicians Endoscopy LLC owns and manages freestanding ambulatory surgery centers. It offers design and development services for ASCs, management services related to finance, professional guidance, clinical operations, human resources, and marketing. The firm provides professional management, billing and collections, design and development, and physician recruiting. The company was founded in July 1998 and is headquartered in Jamison, PA.