J. Michael Thompson

Freeman Spogli & Co Inc (Freeman Spogli) is a private equity firm founded in 1983 by Bradford M. Freeman and Ronald Paul Spogli. The firm is headquartered in Los Angeles, California and their offices in New York.

Summit Partners LP (Summit Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 1984 by Gregory Avis, Roe Stamps and Stephen Woodsum. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Citizens JMP Securities LLC (Citizens JMP) is a full-service investment bank and broker/dealer headquartered in San Francisco, California. The firm was founded by Joseph Jolson in 2002 and was formerly JMP Securities LLC. The firm is a subsidiary of JMP Holding LLC, ultimately held by Citizens Financial Group, Inc. (NYSE: CFG). Citizens JMP provides equity research, institutional brokerage, and investment banking services to public and private growth companies and their investors. They are a research-driven, growth-oriented firm that provides services to small- and mid-sized companies and the institutions that invest in them. The firm specializes in four high-growth sectors of the economy: technology, healthcare, financial services, and real estate.

UBS Securities LLC is an investment bank and registered broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1998 as UBS Warburg LLC. They are a subsidiary of UBS Americas Holding LLC, ultimately held by UBS Group AG (SWX: UBSG, NYSE: UBS) in Switzerland. UBS Securities is a primary dealer in US Government securities and provides a full range of investment banking services which includes corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, trading and sales, fixed-income, equity research, private banking, underwriting and prime brokerage operations. The firm also provides advisory services and access to capital markets for corporate, institutional, intermediary and alternative asset management clients.

VigLink, Inc. develops revenue generating programs for web publishers. It offers a suite of content monetization tools that allow online publishers to earn money via the out clicks on their site. The firm’s solution enables publishers to automatically affiliate the links in user’s content to get paid when their readers click or make a purchase. The company was founded by Oliver Roup and Rodrigo Leroux in 2009 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

KPMG LLP engages in the provision of audit, tax, and advisory services. It serves the banking and capital markets, building, construction and real estate, consumer and retail, energy, natural resources and chemicals, financial services, government and public sector, healthcare and life sciences, industrial manufacturing, insurance, media and entertainment, private equity, technology, telecommunications, and venture capital industries. The company was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

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.

Scale Management LLC (Scale Management) is a venture capital firm founded in 1995 by Kate D. Mitchell and Anchie Y. Kuo. The firm is headquartered in Foster City, California.

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.

Deloitte & Touche LLP engages in the provision of audit, advisory, financial advisory, tax, and consulting services. The company was founded on March 7, 1995 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

XAP Corp. provides information regarding colleges and financial institutions to students over the Internet. The company offers services for college administrators, which include online applications, transcripts, and prospect management systems. The company was founded by Allen Firstenberg in 1988 and is headquartered in Culver City, CA.

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.

Peking University provides post-secondary education services. It offers undergraduate and graduate courses. It provides courses such as basic and applied sciences, social sciences and the humanities, sciences of medicine, management, and education. The company was founded by JiaNai Sun in 1898 and is headquartered in Beijing, China.

Founded in 1985, Green Street Advisors LLC is a SEC-registered investment advisor and broker/dealer located in Newport Beach, California. The firm is affiliated with Green Street Investors and is a subsidiary of Green Street Holdings, Inc. Green Street Advisors' research concentrates on publicly-traded real estate securities including REITs and other publicly-traded real estate companies. The firm provides insight, advice and service to a variety of clients worldwide who seek thorough, timely analysis on private and public commercial real estate markets. Green Street Advisors' clients use their research at the macro, sector, market and company levels to improve their decision-making in many aspects of the real estate capital allocation process.

Stifel, Nicolaus & Co., Inc. (Stifel) is a dual-registered broker-dealer and investment adviser headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri. Founded in 1890, the firm is a subsidiary of Stifel Financial Corp. (NYSE: SF), a financial service holding company. Stifel provides full-service brokerage and investment advisory services to individuals and their families, institutions and businesses, and financial advisors.

Beehive3D, Inc. engages in manufacturing, technology developing, and innovation partnership for defense, aerospace, and related industries. The private company is based in Deerfield Beach.

Volition Capital LLC (Volition Capital) is a venture capital & private equity firm founded in 2010 by Larry Cheng, Roger Hurwitz, Geraldine Alias, Sean Cantwell and Rob Ketterson. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

ICE Canyon LLC is an independent registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in Los Angeles, California. The firm was founded by Nathan Sandler in 2006 through a join venture with Canyon Capital Advisors LLC. ICE Canyon provides discretionary advisory services to private investment vehicles and managed accounts. Clients and Fund investors include individuals, trusts, pension plans, corporations, and public and private entities.

Tata Finance Ltd. engages in the provision of financial services. It offers car finance and commercial vehicle finance services. The company was founded on January 1, 1984 and is headquartered in Mumbai, India.

All Mobile Fund (All Mobile Fund) is a venture capital firm founded in 2014 by Adriaan Ligtenberg. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

TaleSpin LLC engages in the provision of software development, machine learning, artificial intelligence and augmented reality business solutions. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Culver City, CA.

Open Drives, Inc. provides data storage services over the internet. It focuses on providing the next generation of storage technology for filmmakers at a price/performance metric. The firm specializes in network attached storage, workflow design, high speed networks, 4K editing, 6K editing, rendering and visual effects. The company was founded by Jeff Brue and Kyle Jackson in 2009 and is headquartered in Culver City, CA.

VAKIF YATIRIM MENKUL DEGERLER AS is engaged in trading brokerage operations, retail operations, portfolio management, investment consulting operations, brokerage IPO underwriting by the intermediary activities and limited storage services. The company was founded on November 1996 and is headquartered in Istanbul, Turkey.