J. Christopher Albanese

A.G.P. / Alliance Global Partners Corp. (AGP) is a FINRA-registered broker-dealer headquartered in Westport, Connecticut. Formerly known as Euro Pacific Capital, Inc., the firm was founded by Peter Schiff in 1997 and is a subsidiary of Alliance Global LLC. AGP provides prime brokerage services to hedge funds, family offices, professional traders and top tier small/mid-cap investment funds. It offers multi-clearing, cloud based, high-touch client service solutions tailored to each client’s business needs.

H&R Finance Trust is an unincorporated investment trust. It principal activity is to hold debt issued by its subsidiary company. H&R Finance was founded on October 1, 2008 and is headquartered in Toronto, ON.

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.

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.

Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP provides legal services. Its clients include Bank of America, Dow Jones and Northrop Grumman. The company has offices in Frankfurt, Hong Kong, London, New York, Paris, Shanghai, and Washington. Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson was founded in 1971 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Tannenbaum Helpern Syracuse & Hirschtritt LLP is an American private company that provides legal services in all areas of business law, including: financial services, private funds, and capital markets; real estate, environmental and construction law; general corporate and regulatory matters; litigation and dispute resolution; franchising; distribution and e-commerce; antitrust; intellectual property; employment; estate planning; and tax. The company is headquartered in New York.

Fordham University provides college and university. It offers undergraduate colleges and graduate & professional schools. The company was founded in 1841 and is headquartered in Bronx, NY.

Dechert LLP provides legal services. It serves the chemical, construction, finance and real estate, energy, insurance, and health sectors. The firm's practice areas include business restructuring and reorganization, commercial litigation, corporate and securities, energy, finance and real estate, financial services, mergers and acquisitions, and private equity. The company was founded in 1875 and is headquartered in Philadelphia, PA.

American Bar Association provides legal services. It provides law school accreditation, continuing legal education, legal information and other services to assist legal professionals. The firm has members which include judges, court administrators, law professors, and non-practicing attorneys. The company was founded on August 21, 1878 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

NMGF Management LLC (New Markets Venture Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 2002 by Mark Anthony Grovic and Robb Tyler Doub. The firm is headquartered in Fulton, Maryland.

Ellenoff Grossman & Schole LLP provides legal services. The private company is based in New York, NY and has subsidiaries in China. The company was founded by Douglas S. Ellenoff.

New York State Bar Association is a non-profit organization, which provides legal services and offers a membership program for lawyers. It also publishes an array of books, bar journals, law digest, and State Bar news. The company was founded in 1876 and is headquartered in Alban, NY.

Cross River Bank, Inc. operates as a state chartered commercial bank. It specializes in marketplace lending, small business loans, FinTech, commercial real estate loans, crowdfunding, payments, securitization, virtual currency, ACH/IAT, wallet (custody), core API driven banking, capital markets, deposits/CDs and small business lending. The company was founded by Gilles Gade in 2008 and is headquartered in Fort Lee, NJ.

Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy LLP provides immigration law services. It offers work permit and work authorization services, value-added services, private client service, immigration program structure and support, immigration knowledge services and technology, government strategy, employment verification services and technologies, document services, consular services, business visa services and technology, and advisory, audit and compliance services. The company was founded in 1951 and is headquartered in Washington, DC.

American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) is a national bar association of over 16,000 attorneys who practice and teach immigration law. The non-profit company is based in Washington. AILA's CLE Center is a resource for identifying jurisdiction requirements, learning about approved formats, including new on-demand options, and finding related resources for programs.

The District of Columbia Bar provides legal services. The private company is based in Washington.

Year Up, Inc. provides educational and professional development programs. Their programs encompass job and hands-on skills development, college credits and corporate internships. The company was founded by Gerald Chertavian in 2000 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone Development Corp. is a non-profit organization that aims to revitalize economically deprived communities through the use of public funds and tax incentives. The non-profit company is based in New York, NY.

NewSchools Venture Fund provides funds to other non-profit organization that improves public education. It provides education through powerful ideas and passionate entrepreneurs so that all children especially those in underserved communities have the opportunity to succeed. It supports education entrepreneurs, a special breed of innovators who create new nonprofit and for-profit organizations that redefine the sense of what is possible in public education. The company was founded by Brook H. Byers, Kim Smith and Louis John Doerr in and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Stand for Children, Inc. is a non-profit organization which develops, designs, and implements educational program, policies, and campaigns. It promotes Protech Dreamers, Teaching Beyong the Textbook, and Kids Not Cuts. The organization was founded by Eliza Leighton and Jonah Edelman in 1996 and is headquartered in Portland, OR.

Jobs for the Future (JFF) is a national non-profit organization that aims to transform the American workforce and education systems to achieve equitable economic advancement for all. The non-profit company is based in Boston, MA and has subsidiaries in the United States. JFF drives transformation of the education and workforce systems to achieve equitable economic advancement for all. Maria Flynn has been the CEO of the company since 2007.