Francesca Fornasari

Columbia Threadneedle Asset Managers Ltd. (CTAM) is an asset management firm headquartered in London, UK. The firm was founded in 1990 as F&C Asset Managers Ltd. and renamed BMO Asset Managers Ltd. in 2018. They changed their name to Columbia Threadneedle Asset Managers Ltd. when BMO rebranded to Columbia Threadneedle Investments in 2022. The firm is a subsidiary of Columbia Threadneedle AM (Holdings) Plc, ultimately held by Ameriprise Financial, Inc. (NYSE: AMP) in the US. CTAM manages a range of in-house and multi-manager funds for private individuals and institutional clients.

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.

Goldman Sachs Asset Management LP (GSAMLP) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in New York City. The firm is a wholly owned subsidiary of GSAM Holdings LLC, and their ultimate parent is Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE: GS). Founded in 1988, GSAMLP provides investment solutions to a range of individual and institutional investors worldwide.

Piper Sandler & Co. (Broker) (PSC-Broker) is the full-service brokerage division of Piper Sandler & Co., a financial service firm headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota. They are a subsidiary of Piper Sandler Companies (NYSE: PIPR). The firm was founded in 1969 and previously known as Piper Jaffray & Co. They became Piper Sandler & Co. when Piper Jaffray Companies and Sandler O’Neill & Partners, L.P. merged to become Piper Sandler Companies in 2020. PSC-Broker provides brokerage and investment banking services to financial institutions, corporations and other financial investors. Their core focus sectors are Agriculture, renewables & cannabis, Business services, Chemicals & Materials, Consumer, Diversified industrials & services, Energy, Financial services, financial sponsors, Healthcare, and Technology.

Founded in 2004, TD Securities (USA) LLC is a broker/dealer located in New York City with additional offices in Toronto, Montreal, Calgary, Vancouver, London, Singapore, Tokyo and Sydney. The firm is a subsidiary of Toronto Dominion Holdings (USA), Inc. and their ultimate parent is Toronto-Dominion Bank (NYSE: TD). TD Securities (USA) provides a wide range of capital market products and services to corporate, government and institutional clients in five areas of finance including: investment banking, debt capital markets, institutional equities, foreign exchange and money markets. Their services include the underwriting and distribution of new debt and equity issues, providing advice on strategic acquisitions and divestitures and executing daily trading and investment needs. The equity group provides research coverage of media and communications, technology, financial services, oil and gas, mining and metals, industrial products, forest products, technology, utilities and power, real estate, biotechnology, consumer products and merchandising and quantitative analysis strategy. The fixed-income group provides a full range of underwriting sales and trading products for Canadian, U.S. and European debt issuers and investors.

OnForce, Inc. provides online information technology for on-site tech talent in field services. The firm offers online work platform, talent exchange, preferred talent pools, freelancer management system, consumer electronics and information technology. The company was founded by Jeffrey P. Leventhal, Mark L. Friedman and Gabe Miano in February 2003 and is headquartered in Lexington, MA.

Applause APP Quality, Inc. provides software testing services. It utilizes a roster of testers from various countries and territories to provide testing of web, desktop and mobile applications in development. The company was founded by Doron Reuveni and Roy Solomon in 2007 and is headquartered in Framingham, MA.

Saavn LLC provides web and mobile music streaming services. It supports array of display and rich media advertisement units, both internet advertising bureau standard and custom sponsorships, across web, wap, and mobile platforms. The company was founded by Paramdeep Singh, Vinodh V. Bhat, Anurag Gupta, Rishi Malhotra, Anjali Jindal Naik and Neal Shenoy in 2006 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Goldman Sachs Asset Management International (GSAMI) is the Great Britain-based asset management subsidiary of Goldman Sachs Asset Management International Holdings Ltd., ultimately held by The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE: GS) in the US. The firm is headquartered in London and was founded in 1990. GSAMI is the hub of Goldman Sachs' European activities, which include investment banking, trading, asset management and securities services. Their clients include individuals, families and family entities, banks and thrift institutions, pooled investment vehicles, pension and profit-sharing plans, trusts, estates, charitable organizations, insurance companies, corporations, and other business entities.

Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC (GS&Co.) is a securities brokerage firm headquartered in New York City. Founded in 1927, the firm is a subsidiary of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE: GS). GS&Co. provides services to help hedge funds manage risk, monitor portfolios, maintain liquidity and build their businesses. They offer clients access to global equity and derivatives markets, as well as foreign exchange, commodities, European Lefts, rates and credit across the Americas, Europe and Asia. The firm proactively monitors capital markets, searching for pockets of liquidity and news that may require changes to those strategies. Integration with the Goldman Sachs network gives clients access to the firm's sectored block trades and their insights into price discovery. Their electronic trading program provides clients with tools to manage their trades from pre-trade analytics to post-trade analysis.

Insight Investment International Ltd. (Insight Investment) is the investment management subsidiary of Insight Investment Management Ltd., ultimately held by The Bank of New York Mellon Corp. (NYSE: BK) in the US. The firm was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in London. Insight Investment provides discretionary investment advisory services to institutional investors in the form of separate account and pooled vehicles across a wide variety of fixed income, risk management strategies including currency risk management and liability driven investing, absolute return and multi-asset capabilities.

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.

Atlas Venture Advisors Inc (Atlas Venture Advisors) is a venture capital firm founded in 1980 by Christopher Julian Spray. The firm is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Founded in 1984, Insight Investment Funds Management Ltd. is a subsidiary of The Bank of New York Mellon Corp. that provides investment advice. The company is based in London, UK.

Insight Investment Management Ltd. provides asset management solutions. It offers services across liability driven investment, fixed income, currency solutions, cash management, absolute return, multi-asset, and real assets, such as farmland. The company was founded on March 16, 1987 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Founded in 2002, Insight Investment Services Ltd. is a subsidiary of The Bank of New York Mellon Corp. that provides investment consultancy services. The company is based in London, UK.

Center for Strategic & International Studies, Inc. provides strategic insights & policy solutions to decision makers in government, international institutions, the private sector, and civil society. Its projects focus on areas such as AIDS, arms control, conflict resolution, NATO, the environment, immigration, intelligence, trade, health care, OPEC, space policy, and terrorism. The company was founded in 1962 by David M. Abshire and Admiral Arleigh Burke and is headquartered in Washington, DC.

Pheon Therapeutics Ltd. is an antibody drug conjugate (ADC) specialist that develops a pipeline of monotherapies for novel targets and/or with novel payloads. The company is based in Harpdenden, UK. The British company's lead program is a first-in-class ADC against a novel target that is highly expressed in solid tumors across a broad range of hard-to-treat cancer types. ADCs offer the potential to treat solid tumors and liquid cancers that have not responded to other treatments. The company was founded in 2015 by Paul Jackson. Cyrus D. Mozayeni has been the CEO of the company since 2023.

Investor Group Services LLC provides strategic consulting services. Its services include company diligence studies, market strategy reviews, and strategic planning process. The company was founded by Mindy Berman in 1998 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

The Legal Aid Society is the largest and most influential social justice law firm in New York City. The non-profit company has Civil, Criminal Defense, Juvenile Rights, and Pro Bono practices that work tirelessly in and out of the courtroom to defend their clients and dismantle the hidden, systemic barriers that can prevent them from thriving in New York City. The company is based in New York, NY. The company's belief is that no person should be denied the right to equal justice.

Ropes & Gray LLP provides legal and private equity services. Its practice areas include asset management, banking, business and commercial litigation, business restructuring, capital markets and corporate governance and compliance. The company was founded in 1865 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Withers Bergman LLP engages in provision of legal services. The company is headquartered in New York, NY.

Conscious Content Media, Inc engages in the provision of online children's entertainment and education development portal. It offers bedtime stories, nursery rhymes, fairy tales, princesses, non-fiction, songs, and stories featuring popular characters. The company was founded by Noelle Millholt and Neal Shenoy in 2008 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

212Media LLC operates as a venture development firm, leveraging technology, experience, and relationships to turn ideas into products. It owns and operates a portfolio of digital media ventures across social media, content production and content distribution in partnership with media companies. The company was founded by Vinodh Bhat, Neal Shenoy, and Paramdeep Singh and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Saavn Media Pvt Ltd. provides online music services. The company was founded by Anurag Gupta, Paramdeep Singh, Naik Anjali Jindal, Vinodh Vasanth Bhat, Neal Shenoy and Rishi Malhotra on August 26, 2011 and is headquartered in Mumbai, India.

Juhi LLC offers an integrative approach to both traditional and holistic medicine. The company was founded by Juhi Singh and is headquartered in New York, NY.

MOMA Therapeutics, Inc. operates as a biotechnology firm. The company was founded by Dorothee Kern, Eva Nogales, Johannes Walter, and Timur Yusufzai and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Part of Great Wolf Resorts Holdings, Inc., Great Wolf Resorts, Inc. operates indoor water park resorts. The company is based in St. Paul, MN.