Ernesto Ramos

Founded in 1969, QS Batterymarch Financial Management, Inc. is a registered investment advisor located in Boston, Massachusetts. The firm is a wholly-owned, independently managed subsidiary of Legg Mason, Inc. (NYSE: LM). They provide investment advisory and sub-advisory services to a wide variety of institutional investors. Legg Mason, Inc.'s acquisition of QS Investors LLC was effective May 30, 2014. As a result, QS Investors, Batterymarch Financial Management, Inc. and Legg Mason Global Asset Allocation LLC became subject to common management and investment oversight, with the objective of integrating the firms to create a combined investment platform offering solutions, quantitative equity, liquid alternatives and multi-manager asset allocation.

BBN Technologies provides research and development services. The company also offers services such as national security, information security, speech recognition and language translation to integrate disparate systems and networks. BBN Technologies was founded by Richard Bolt, Leo Beranerk and Robert Newman in 1948 and is located in Cambridge, MA.

Founded in 1973, M&I Investment Management Corp. is a registered investment advisor and mutual fund manager located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The firm is a subsidiary of Marshall & Ilsey Corp. Their ultimate parent in Bank of Montreal. M&I Investment Corp. provides financial planning and portfolio management and is the investment advisor for the M&I family of mutual funds. Their clients include corporations, endowments, foundations, governmental entities, Taft-Hartley plans and high-net-worth individuals.

Founded in 1984, Nicholas-Applegate Capital Management is a registered investment advisor located in San Diego, California. The firm is a subsidiary of Allianz of America, Inc., and their ultimate parent is Allianz AG (NYSE: AZ). Nicholas-Applegate manages assets for individual and institutional investors including corporate and government retirement plans, foundations, endowments and mutual fund families.

BMO Asset Management Corp. (BMO AM) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. The firm was founded in 2012 and is a wholly-owned subsidiary of BMO Financial Corp. (BMO), which is in turn a wholly-owned subsidiary of Bank of Montreal (TSX: BMO), a Canadian diversified financial services company. BMO AM provides discretionary investment advisory services for, or provides non-discretionary investment advice to, institutions, individuals, and third-party sponsors of and clients participating in wrap-fee programs, as well as common and collective portfolios for which BMO Harris Bank, an affiliate of BMO AM, acts as trustee. In addition, BMO AM provides investment advisory services to private pooled vehicles and to affiliates for the benefit of their clients.

Columbia Management Investment Advisers LLC (CMIA) is a registered investment advisor and mutual fund manager headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. The firm is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Ameriprise Financial, Inc. (NYSE: AMP). The firm was formed in 2010 as the result of Ameriprise Financial Services' (AFS) acquisition of the long-term asset management business of Columbia Management Group (CMG) from Bank of America. AFS merged CMG's long-term asset management business with their subsidiary, RiverSource Investments LLC, under the name Columbia Management Investment Advisors. CMIA offers equity and fixed-income retail and institutional investment products for various types of clients.