Eric M. Carter

Nationwide Life Insurance Co. engages in the provision of long-term savings and retirement products. It operates through the following segments: Life Insurance, Annuities, Workplace Solutions, and Corporate Solutions and Other. The Life Insurance segment consists of life insurance products such as individual variable universal life, traditional life, fixed universal, and indexed universal life insurance products. The Annuities segment offers individual deferred annuity products and immediate annuities. The Workplace Solutions segment deals with private and public sector retirement plans businesses. The Corporate Solutions and Other segment includes COLI and bank-owned life insurance products, small business group life insurance, spread income on Federal Home Loan Bank of Cincinnati funding agreements, and net investment income on invested assets not assigned to other reportable segments. The company was founded in 1929 and is headquartered in Columbus, OH.

Carnegie Mellon University is an American school that operates as a college or university. It is located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

BNP Paribas operates as an investment advisor. It provides capital markets, securities services, financing, treasury and advisory solutions. The firm’s services are provided via four core business lines: Global Markets, Securities Services, Financing Solutions and Advisory. The company is headquartered in New York, NY.

Osborne Partners Capital Management LLC (Osborne Partners) is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor and wealth management firm headquartered in San Francisco, California. Founded in 1937, Osborne Partners provides investment management services to individuals, families, trusts, estates, conservatorships, foundations, endowments, corporations or business entities and pension and profit-sharing plans, charitable organizations, public funds, investment limited partnerships, 401(k) self-directed accounts, IRAs and retirement plans.

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.

Founded in 1985, Augustine Asset Management, Inc. is a registered investment advisor located in Jacksonville, Florida. The firm provides investment services to high net-worth and institutional clients.

Hahn Capital Management LLC (HCM) is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Walnut Creek, California. The firm was founded in 1988 by Elaine F. Hahn, whose Trust, the Elaine Hahn Administrative Trust, is currently the principal owner of HCM. HCM provides non-custodial full discretionary investment advisory services to individuals, high net-worth individuals, family offices, corporate and public pension and profit-sharing plans, Taft-Hartley plans, charitable institutions, foundations, endowments, municipalities, trust programs, and US and non-US registered funds.

Ares Management LLC is a SEC-registered investment advisor and global alternative investment manager headquartered in Los Angeles, California. The firm was founded in 1997 by Merritt Hooper, John Kissick and Antony Ressler. They are a subsidiary of Ares Management Holdings LP and their ultimate parent is Ares Management Corp. (NYSE: ARES). Ares Management provides investment advice to various pooled investment vehicles, other separately managed accounts and other institutional clients.

Citadel Advisors LLC is a SEC-registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in Miami, Florida. The firm was founded in 1990 by Kenneth Griffin and is wholly-owned by Citadel Advisors Holdings LP, ultimately held by GFH HFEVA LLC. Citadel Advisors manages private investment funds that are offered exclusively to sophisticated investors.

AllianceBernstein LP (AB) is a SEC-registered investment advisor and mutual fund manager headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee. Founded in 2000, the firm is owned by Equitable Financial Life Insurance Co., ultimately held by Equitable Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: EQH). AB provides investment advice to investment companies, pension and profit-sharing plans, banks and thrift institutions, trusts, estates, government agencies, charitable organizations, individuals, corporations and other business entities.

Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC is a registered broker-dealer subsidiary of Morgan Stanley Domestic Holdings, Inc., ultimately owned by Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) in the US. Headquartered in New York City, the firm was founded in 1987 and provides debt and equity services including underwriting, M&A advice, securities dealing and brokerage and trade execution. Their client base ranges from large global institutional investors to hedge funds at the cutting edge of innovation in the industry.

Duke University is an academic university that offers undergraduate, graduate and professional programs. It also has publications and research services. The university was founded in 1838 and is headquartered in Durham, NC.

Kelso & Co LP (Kelso) is a private equity firm is founded in 1971 by Louis Kelso. The firm is headquartered in New York, US.

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.

AIG Financial Products Corp. provides corporate finance, investment and financial risk management solutions. The company was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in Wilton, CT.

Part of ESL Investments, Inc., Spinway, Inc. is a company that provides Internet access and related services. The company is based in Palo Alto, CA. The company was founded by Maura Rodgers, Michael D. Perone, Zachary S. Levow. The CEO is Danny Robinson. Spinway was acquired by Bluelight.com LLC on December 11, 2000.

Millennium Management LLC is a SEC-investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded by Israel 'Izzy' Englander in 1989 and is a subsidiary of MLM Trust B LLC, itself a subsidiary of MLM Trust B. Millennium Management provides discretionary investment advisory services to private investment funds.

Part of JPMorgan Chase & Co., Chase Home Finance LLC is a company based in Louisville, KY.

Quest Partners LLC (Quest) is a SEC-registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded by Nigol Koulajian and Paul Czkwianianc in 2001. Quest manages a global macro fund using a systematic long/short strategy.

GraniteShares Advisors LLC is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded by William “Will” Rhind in 2016 and is a subsidiary of GraniteShares, Inc. GraniteShares Advisors offers ETF to various types of investors.

Morgan Stanley & Co. International Plc (MSCI) is a brokerage firm headquartered in London, UK. The firm was founded in 1986 and is a subsidiary of Morgan Stanley Investments (UK), ultimately held by Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) in the US. MSCI provides a range of brokerage services to corporations, governments and financial institutions.

Array Networks, Inc. provides application delivery networking solutions to enterprises, service providers, and public sector organizations worldwide. The firm offers application delivery controllers for scaling performance, availability, and security for internal users on private networks, as well as for end-users accessing web-based applications and cloud services; and secure access gateways for enterprise, cloud, and mobile environments that centralize control over access to applications, desktops, files, networks, and websites from a range of remote and mobile devices. The company was founded by Sunil Cherian, Lawrence Lu and Bhanu Panda in 2000 and is headquartered in Milpitas, CA.

Advatech Pacific, Inc. provides advance engineering solutions to the aerospace and defense market. It offer products and services in communication, engineering and software and aerospace engineering. The firm provides Tactical Cross Domain Solution (TACDS), integrated modeling simulation and analysis tools and services, engineering, programming and analysis services, aerodynamic analysis and mechanical design. The company was founded by Jay P. Ebersohl in 1995 and is headquartered in Phoenix, AZ.

FIAM LLC (do-business-as Fidelity Institutional Asset Management) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Smithfield, Rhode Island. The firm was founded in 2006 and formerly known as Pyramis Global Advisors LLC. They are wholly-owned by FIAM Holdings LLC, which in turn is owned by FMR LLC, aka Fidelity Investments. FIAM provides discretionary investment management services to institutional accounts. The firm also sub-advices funds or accounts for affiliated advisers and unaffiliated advisers.

Cressey & Co. LP (Cressey & Co) is a private equity firm. The firm is founded in the year 2008 by Bryan Charles Cressey and it is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois and Nashville, Tennessee.