Jim Marquis

Charles Schwab Investment Management, Inc. (dba Schwab Asset Management®) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in San Francisco, California. The firm was founded in 1989 and is a wholly-owned subsidiary of The Charles Schwab Corp. (NASDAQ: SCHW). Schwab Asset Management is the investment adviser for Schwab Funds, Schwab ETFs, and separately managed account strategies.

Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc. (DBSI) is a SEC-registered broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1971 and is a wholly-owned investment banking and brokerage arm of DB U.S. Financial Markets Holding Corp., ultimately held by Deutsche Bank AG (NYSE: DB, FRA: DBK) in Germany. DBSI provides securities brokerage and investment advisory services to domestic and international private clients and institutions. They are also a primary dealer in US government securities as designated by the Federal Reserve.

Google LLC engages in the operation of internet portal and search index website. It provides online advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing, and software solutions. The company was founded by Lawrence E. Page and Sergey Mikhaylovich Brin on September 4, 1998 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

Green Alpha Advisors LLC, dba Green Alpha Investments (Green Alpha), is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Niwot, Colorado. The firm was founded by Jeremy Deems and Garvin Jabusch in 2007. Green Alpha offers investment advisory services to their individual and institutional clients in the form of separately managed accounts, a fixed income mutual fund, the AXS Sustainable Income Fund (ticker: AXSKX), and an exchange-traded fund (ETF), the AXS Green Alpha ETF (ticker: NXTE).

Glossier, Inc. provides online beauty products. It delivers newsletters and information in various categories, such as product recommendations, tutorials, makeup looks, culture, visual inspiration, shopping, video, and conversational first-person interviews with fashion's top ladies. The firm's platform also provides information related to backstage, fragrance, hair, health, lips, makeup, models, nails, and skincare. The company was founded by Emily Weiss, Michael Harper, and Nick Axelrod in September 2010 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

UNIFI Software, Inc. provides data integration solutions. It offers automation of data, business enabled and data connectivity. The company delivers data integration to the business analysts who analyze the data, unlocking its full potential. UNIFI Software was founded by Rob Carlson, Jim Carr, Sean Keenan and Ayush Parashar in July 2014 and is headquartered in San Mateo, CA.

Institutional Venture Partners (Institutional Venture Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 1980 by Reid Dennis. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

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.

McKinsey & Co., Inc. provides management consulting services. It specializes in design, marketing and sales, analytics, operations, transformation and restructuring, risk, strategy and corporate finance, and sustainability and resource productivity. The company was founded by James O. McKinsey in 1926 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Harvard University engages in the provision of teaching and research. It has twelve degree-granting Schools in addition to the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, offering a global education. The university was founded in 1636 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

The Boston Consulting Group, Inc. engages in the provision of management consulting services. It specializes in automotive and mobility; biopharmaceuticals; consumer products; education; oil and gas; power and utilities; engineered products and infrastructure; financial institutions; and health care payers, providers, and services. It offers big data and advanced analytics; change management; client learning and enablement; and corporate development and financial services. The company was founded by Bruce Doolin Henderson in 1963 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Founded in 1986, Merriman Capital, Inc. is an SEC-registered broker/dealer and investment banking firm headquartered in San Francisco. The firm is a subsidiary of Merriman Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: MERR), a financial services firm that focuses on fast-growing companies and their institutional investors. Merriman provides advisory and investment banking, equity research, institutional services, corporate services and venture services primarily to corporate clients. Merriman Capital provides research, brokerage and trading services primarily to institutional clients. The firm offers a full range of specialized and integrated services including: equity research, specialized trade execution, equity capital markets, corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, sales and trading, market making, corporate and venture services, restructurings and strategic advisory services. Merriman Capital employs bottom-up, fundamental analysis of small-cap companies in select industries including clean technology, healthcare, technology and consumer/Internet/media. The firm also has expertise in emerging markets, with emphasis on emerging markets in China. Merriman Capital is known to engage in shareholder activist investment strategies. Merriman Capital is a member of the NASD, the SIPC and FINRA. The firm serves as an introducing broker/dealer for Pershing LLC. They do not hold or maintain funds or securities or provide clearing services for other broker/dealers.

Empyrean Capital Partners LP (Empyrean) is an independent registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in Los Angeles, California. The firm was founded by Michael Price and Amos Meron in 2004. Empyrean serves as the investment adviser with discretionary trading authority to private pooled investment vehicles, the securities of which are offered to investors on a private placement or other basis.

NGEN Partners LLC (NGEN Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 2001 by Peter Grubstein. The firm is headquartered in New York.

TPG Growth LLC is a Venture Capital firm, a subsidiary of TPG Capital Advisors LLC founded in 2000 by William E. McGlashan and Michael Guthrie. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, United States with additional office in London, United Kingdom.

Hines Interests LP operates as a privately owned international real estate firm. It offers investment, development, and management projects. The firm's portfolio of projects include skyscrapers, corporate headquarters, mixed-use centers, industrial parks, medical facilities, and master-planned resort and residential communities. The company was founded by Gerald D. Hines in 1957 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

Moody's KMV Co. provides quantitative credit analysis tools to lenders, investors and corporations. The firm serves more than 2,000 commercial and investment banks, insurance companies, money management firm and other companies around the world. It offers tools for financial data collection and analysis, credit risk measurement, credit valuation and portfolio credit risk measurement. The company was founded by Oldrich Vasicek and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA

The American Academy of Arts & Sciences is an organization that honors excellence and brings together leaders. The non-profit company is based in Cambridge, MA.

The National Academy of Medicine (United States) is based in Washington and is focused on improving the health and well-being of individuals through various initiatives. These initiatives include the clinician well-being collaborative, which aims to accelerate the implementation of a national plan for health workforce well-being, and the development of a code of conduct for the use of artificial intelligence in health care. The organization also provides resources to support meaningful community engagement in health and health care programs and policies. Recently, the National Academy of Medicine announced the appointment of Mandy Cohen, a member of the organization, as the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Additionally, the organization has released a publication celebrating 50 years of progress in biomedical science, health, and health care.

National Academy of Sciences operates as a private, nongovernmental institution that advises on issues related to science and technology. It provides independent, objective analysis and advice and conducts other activities to solve complex problems and inform public policy decisions. The firm also encourages education and research, recognize outstanding contributions to knowledge, and increase public understanding in matters of science. The company was founded on March 3, 1863 and is headquartered in Washington, DC.

Motive Technologies, Inc. provides logistics and supply chain services. It specializes in electronic logging devices, fleet management, vehicle GPS tracking, driver vehicle inspection reports, and IFTA reporting and electronic logs. The company was founded by Shoaib Makani, Ryan Johns, and Obaid Khan in 2013 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

GV Management Co LLC (Google Ventures) is a venture capital firm, a subsidiary of Google LLC founded in 2009 by Bill Maris. The firm is headquartered in Mountain View, California with an additional office in San Francisco, Boston, New York and London.

Yanka Industries, Inc. offers online video education courses. The firm''s students purchase access to a class, they get access to its content forever and can complete it at their own pace, though there are set dates for submitting certain assignments if they want to get feedback from the expert teachers. The company was founded by David Rogier and Aaron Rasmussen and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

La Haus SAS is a Colombian real estate company that offers new housing projects in Bogotá and Cartagena, Colombia. The company is based in Medellin, Colombia. and has subsidiaries in Mexico and Cayman Islands. The company provides options for buying new apartments or houses at the best prices, whether for immediate delivery or on plans. Additionally, they offer real estate investment courses to help clients make informed decisions. La Haus was founded in 2012 by Rodrigo Sanchez Rios, Jeronimo Alberto Uribe, Tomas Uribe, Arnau Porto Dolc, Santiago Garcia, and has been led by Jeronimo Alberto Uribe as CEO since then.

Shift Platform, Inc. engages in the provision of a platform for buying, selling, and servicing of used cars. The company was founded by Irakly George Areshidze Arison, Joel Washington, Christian Ohler, Minnie Ingersoll, and Morgan Knutson in 2014 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Renegade Partners (Renegade Partners) is a venture capital firm founded by Renata Streit Quintini and Roseanne Wincek in 2018. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

DFS, Inc. manufactures livestock feeds and wholesales farm supplies. The company was founded by Don Kier and Doris Kier in December 1970 and is headquartered in Newell, IA.

BlackRock Fund Advisors (BFA) is a registered investment advisor headquartered in San Francisco, California. The firm was founded in 1984 and is a subsidiary of BlackRock Delaware Holdings, Inc., ultimately held by BlackRock, Inc. (NYSE: BLK). BFA manages assets for US registered investment companies, including ETFs. Mandates include cash management, equity, fixed income, multi-asset and index strategies.

BNP Paribas Fortis SA/NV (UK) (BNP Paribas Fortis UK) is the Great Britain-based subsidiary of BNP Paribas Fortis SA/NV, itself a subsidiary of BNP Paribas SA (XP: BNP) in France. Formerly known as Fortis Bank SA/NV (UK), the firm was established in 1988 as a brokerage firm. In 2009 Fortis Bank began to use the name BNP Paribas Fortis as a commercial name and in 2013 they changed the official company name to BNP Paribas Fortis. Headquartered in London, BNP Paribas Fortis UK provides brokerage services for central banks worldwide and primarily focuses on precious and base metals including gold, silver, platinum, palladium, aluminum, copper, lead, nickel, tin and zinc. They outsource research activities to Virtual Metals Research & Consulting Ltd.