Jeff Williams

Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC (Credit Suisse Securities USA) is the broker/dealer division of Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, an investment banking company headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1998 and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Credit Suisse (USA), Inc., ultimately owned by Credit Suisse Group AG (SWX: CSGN) in Switzerland. Credit Suisse Securities USA offers a suite of equities, solutions and credit products and services which includes global securities sales, trading and execution, prime brokerage and comprehensive investment research. Their clients include financial institutions, corporations, governments, institutional investors, such as pension funds and hedge funds, and private individuals around the world.

Part of G Fried Flooring America, Maxim Group, Inc. is a company that provides floor covering products. The company is based in Kennesaw, GA. The company was founded by Richard A. Kaplan.

Ernst & Young LLP engages in the provision of accounting, assurance, tax, transaction, and advisory services. It specializes in the actuarial, analytics and big data, cyber security, accounting compliance and reporting, center for board matters, international financial reporting standards, country tax advisory, global trade, tax accounting, and climate change and sustainability. The company was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLC provides assurance, tax and advisory services. Its services include audit and assurance, consulting, deals, human resources, legal, tax, and family business. The firm also offers accountability, risk management, structuring, mergers and acquisitions, and performance and process improvement. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Buffalo, NY.

Deutsche Bank Alex Brown, Inc. provides wealth management services. The company was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Baltimore, MD.

Morgan Creek Capital Management is a private equity firm founded by Mark W. Yusko in 2004. The firm is headquartered in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

UGVP Management LLC (UGVP Management) is a venture capital firm founded in 2014 by Greg Bohlen, Pat A. Cairns and John A. Spilman. The firm is headquartered in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

Brown Advisory, Inc. provides investment and advisory services. It specializes in investment management, strategic advisory, wealth management, and private equity. The firm provides services to individuals, families, institutions, and corporations. The company was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in Baltimore, MD.

ZeroFOX, Inc. is a social risk management company, which engages in the provision of security technology that enables organizations to detect and prevent social media-based cyber threats. Its solutions include enterprise protection, brand protection, executive protection, domain protection, threat protection, and dark web monitoring. The company was founded by Christopher B. Cullison, Hillary Herlehy, James C. Foster, Evan Blair, Robert Francis, and Neil Smith in January 2013 and is headquartered in Baltimore, MD.

Fortanix, Inc. provides software and hardware information security services. Its product, self-defensing key management services (SDKMS), allows the user to securely generate, store, and use cryptographic keys and certificates, as well as secrets such as passwords, tokens, application programming interface (API) keys, and any blob data. The company was founded by Ambuj Kumar and Anand Kashyap in 2016 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

Intel Capital Corp (Intel Capital) is a venture capital subsidiary of Intel Corp founded in 1991 by Les Vadasz, and Avram Miller. The firm is headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware.

Charter Venture Capital (Charter Venture) is a venture capital firm founded in 1982. The firm is headquartered in Palo Alto, 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.

Darwin Ventures LLC (Darwin Ventures) is a venture capital founded in 2002 by Peter Freudenthal and Frank R. Caufield. The firm is headquartered in Burlingame, California.

Grotech Management Co (Grotech Management) is a venture capital firm founded in 1984 by Frank A. Adams. The firm is headquartered in Owings Mills, Maryland.

UP Holdings LLC (Upside Partnership) is a venture capital subsidiary of Cushman & Wakefield Plc, founded in 2014 by Kent Goldman. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Kirkland & Ellis LLP provides legal services. It counsels clients in litigation, corporate and tax, intellectual property and restructuring matters. The firm offers intellectual property, antitrust and competition, international trade and national security, real estate and tax, benefits and estate planning services. The company was founded in 1909 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

BB&T Securities LLC, doing business as BB&T Capital Markets, is the broker/dealer subsidiary of BB&T Corp. (NYSE: BBT). The firm is headquartered in Richmond, Virginia. They offer a full array of investment, trading and execution services to middle-market companies. BB&T Capital Markets' sales and trading arm is comprised of 2 groups: Debt Securities Sales & Trading and Equity Sales & Trading. The Debt Securities Sales & Trading group focuses on: (1) Government and agency securities (2) corporate bonds (3) municipal bonds (4) asset-backed securities (5) mortgage-backed securities (6) preferred securities and (7) money market desk (short-term securities including BB&T funding). The Equity Sales & Trading group focuses on: (1) institutional block execution services (2) institutional distribution of proprietary research (3) providing proprietary access to industry leading conferences and management teams (4) serving as a NASDAQ market maker for over 250 securities (5) stock buybacks including 10b-18 and 10b5-1 trading plans and (6) 144 stock sales, individual 10b5-1 trading plans (buy and sell) and employee cashless stock option programs. BB&T Capital Markets provides research coverage of the communications, defense and government services, energy, financial services, furnishings and consumer durables, healthcare, industrial services, retail/consumer durables and transportation services sectors.

Peakview Management LLC (Peakview Management) is a venture capital firm founded in 2015. The firm headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

Transposit Corp. provides an API composition platform that simplifies how applications are built, deployed, and managed, and brings the simplicity of a relational database. The company was founded by Adam H. Leventhal and Tina Huang in 2016 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Northgate Capital LP (Northgate Capital) is a venture capital and private equity firm founded in 2000 by Thomas Arthur Vardell and Brent Michael Jones. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Lacework, Inc. provides cloud computing services. It offers workload security, container security and visibility and devops solutions. The firm also provides polygraph, threat insights, security automation and architecture products. The company was founded by Vikram Kapoor and Sanjay Karla in 2015 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

Q-Sensei Corp. develops an enterprise search platform. It builds an indexing technology that changes the way companies search data. The firm’s products are fuse and spark technology. The company was founded by Ute Rother, Hans-Jurgen Uffhaus, Nicolai Wirth, Rudy A. Mazzocchi, Ottolski Sascha and Wolfram Kerber in 2007 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

JPB Capital Partners (JPB Capital Partners) is a private equity firm, a subsidiary of JPB Partners LLC. The firm is headquartered in Hanover, Maryland.

DCM Private Equity (DCM Private Equity) is a private equity subsidiary of DuPont Capital Management Corp founded in 1993. The firm is headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware.