John Schurz

Case Western Reserve University provides educational services. It offers a variety of undergraduate degree courses and graduate and professional options such as arts and sciences, dentistry, engineering, law, management, medicine, nursing, social work, and more. The firm also offers dual-degree programs. The company was founded in 1826 and is headquartered in Cleveland, OH.

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.

Clearstead Advisors LLC, dba Clearstead Hartland & Co. LLC (Clearstead), is an institutional investment consulting and private wealth management firm headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio. The firm was founded in 1989 as Hartland & Co. LLC and changed their legal name to Clearstead Advisors LLC in 2018. They are owned by Hartland Management Investors LLC (HMI), which holds the shares of Clearstead’s employees with approximately 40% ownership and Flexpoint Ford LLC, through the entity Moses Buyer Holdings LLC with approximately 60% ownership. Clearstead provides advisory services to corporate, private and public employee retirement funds (pension and savings plans); endowments and foundations; operating funds for non-profit and for-profit organizations, healthcare organizations and insurance companies; sub-advisor investment management services; and private clients (families, individuals and related entities).

Industry Ventures LLC (Industry Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2000 by Johan Douwe Swildens and Tom Litle. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

News Media Alliance provides newspapers and non-daily newspapers. It focuses on ensuring the future of new media through communication, research, advocacy and innovation. The company was founded on June 1, 1992 and is headquartered in Arlington, VA.

Northwestern University is a private institution founded in 1851 to serve the Northwest Territory, an area that now includes the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and parts of Minnesota. Northwestern has three campuses

Wells Fargo Securities LLC (WFS) is the broker/dealer subsidiary of EVEREN Capital Corp., ultimately owned by Wells Fargo & Co. (NYSE: WFC). Headquartered in New York, WFS delivers a comprehensive suite of banking, capital markets and advisory solutions, such as a full complement of sales, trading and research capabilities, to corporate, government and institutional clients.

Shine Grand Ltd. is a Chinese company that supplies plastic toys. The private company is based in Hong Kong, Hong Kong.

Stratos Wealth Partners Ltd. (SWP) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Beachwood, Ohio. The firm was founded in 2008 by James Lupica and Jeffrey Concepcion. They are owned subsidiary of Stratos Intermediate Holdco LLC. SWP offers investment advisory services to individuals, individual retirement accounts (IRAs), banks and thrift institutions, pension and profit- sharing plans, including plans subject to Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), trusts, estates, charitable organizations, corporations and other business entities.

Luxottica US Holdings Corp. operates stores that sell prescription frames and sunglasses. The company is headquartered in Port Washington, NY.

Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc. engages in the provision of management and technology consulting services. Its services include consulting, analytics, digital solutions, engineering, cyber security, and product. The company was founded by Edwin G. Booz in 1914 and is headquartered in McLean, VA.

Phillips Edison & Co. Ltd. operates as a real estate company. Its services include in-house leasing, property management, accounting, acquisitions, dispositions, development and financing teams. The firm provides a diverse range of retail solutions for investors and retailers looking to maximize their retail investment. Phillips Edison was founded by Michael C. Phillips and Jeffrey Edison in 1991 and is headquartered in Cincinnati, OH.

FedBid, Inc. provides online procurement services. It offers reverse auction and electronic payment offerings, through its online marketplace. The company was founded by Phillip Fuster, John Lee and Brendan Walsh in 2001 and is headquartered in Vienna, VA.

Latham & Watkins LLP operates as a full-service law firm or legal matters. It offers services in the areas of finance, litigation, accounting, banking, life sciences, private equity, real estate, government relations, employment law, and outsourcing. The company was founded in 1934 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Coast to Crest Fund LP engages in the provision of capital and investment support services. It serves as an investor for the startup firms who are looking for funding for growth. The company was founded by Stephen McKeon in 2017 and is headquartered in Eugene, OR.

Skyward IO, Inc. provides software and professional services. The firm is the integrated solution to address this need for drones and makes for operators to track the specific information and airspace data needed for business and regulatory requirements. It offers professional services to help companies to assess their regulatory, insurance and operational needs. The company was founded by Jonathan Evans, Dana Maher, Eric Ringer, Stephen McKeon, Eric Ringer and Jake Weber in 2012 and is headquartered in Portland, OR.

Sirios Capital Management LP (Sirios) is a SEC-registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. The firm was founded in 1999 by John Brennan, Jr. Sirios provides investment advice to private investment funds, UCITS Funds, registered investment companies, wrap program participants, and certain other institutional clients through separate accounts.

Collab Currency Management LLC (Collab Currency) is a venture capital firm founded in 2018. The firm is headquartered in New York.

AMN Healthcare, Inc. provides healthcare staffing and workforce services. It offers workforce solutions including managed services programs, recruiting and placement, recruitment process outsourcing, consulting, and vendor management system; and healthcare staffing that includes, nurse staffing, allied health, permanent placement, and home health staffing services. The company was founded by Steven C. Francis in March 1985 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

American Airlines, Inc. engages in the provision of airline transportation services. It offers travel insurance, email subscriptions, group and meeting travel and business programs services. The company was founded by C. R. Smith on April 15, 1926 and is headquartered in Fort Worth, TX.

West Monroe Partners LLC engages in the provision of business and technology solutions. It offers advance analytics, customer experience, mergers and acquisitions, operation excellence and performance services. It also provides services to private equity, insurance, healthcare, manufacturing, retail, energy, banking and credit unions. The company was founded by Dean Fischer, Susan Stelter, and Kevin McCarty in 2002 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

FundStrat Global Advisors is an independent research boutique that provides fundamental, technical, and quantitative research to a broad array of clients, including institutional investors, wealth advisors, pension funds, and high net worth individuals. The private company is based in New York, NY, and focuses on delivering analysis, not opinions, to aid in clients' investment process. The firm also has a retail-facing service for smaller investors called FSInsight. FundStrat's data-intensive approach seeks to exploit anomalies and identify sectors and stocks with a high likelihood of outperforming the market. Founded in 2014 by Thomas J. Lee and John Sungho Bai, the company is well-known for custom-tailoring research to clients' unique needs and interests.

Tri-Valley Ventures (Tri-Valley Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2017 by Gregory David Hitchan and Don Corbin Garman. The firm is headquartered in Pleasanton, California.

Mirador Capital Partners LP (Mirador) is an independent registered investment advisor headquartered in Pleasanton, California. The firm was founded by Don C. Garman in 2013. Mirador provides individuals and other types of clients with a wide array of investment advisory services.

Cintrifuse Fund Management LLC (Cintrifuse Fund) is a venture capital subsidiary of Cintrifuse founded in 2012. The firm is headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Alaia Capital LLC (Alaia) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded by Oscar Loynaz and Paul Koo in 2015. They are wholly owned by Institutional Capital Network, Inc., owned by iCapital, Inc. Alaia acts as a portfolio consultant to m+ funds.

Citigroup Global Markets, Inc. (Broker) (CGMI-Broker) is the broker/dealer division of Citigroup Global Markets, Inc., an investment bank headquartered in New York City with additional offices across the US. The firm was founded in 2004 and is a subsidiary of Citigroup Financial Products, Inc., ultimately held by Citigroup, Inc. (NYSE: C). CGMI-Broker covers all market capitalizations of the major global indices and provides macro and quantitative analysis of global markets and sector trends. Their core focus of the group is to help investing clients make informed decisions by providing value-added, independent, insightful analysis.

Founded in 2002, Empirical Research Partners LLC (ERP) is an independent investment research firm located in New York City. The firm provides services to institutional clients. ERP's research approach is based on empirical evidence. They seek to combine the macro and micro and the short- and long-run evidence into a comprehensive viewpoint. The firm employs inclusive, proprietary databases and sophisticated stock selection models that are based on judgments about human nature. ERP's ongoing research effort attempts to determine how best to translate those judgments into useful decision-making rules. The firm's portfolio strategy is based on microeconomics and seeks to exploit a variety of anomalies to identify stocks that should outperform the market. These anomalies may include misvaluation, overinvestment or retrenchment by management and excessive extrapolation of trends by investors. ERP employs a proprietary, customized database that contains large quantities of company-level data. The firm looks for situations in which the current state of affairs is untenable and the reward for patience is great. ERP's quantitative research seeks to help active portfolio managers make better decisions by exploiting recurring aspects of human nature. Their tools quantify these variables and combine them into screens or formal multifactor models that identify companies with desirable or undesirable traits. The models balance conflicting signals in a dynamic fashion, putting greater emphasis on the factor with the highest expected return at each point in time. The firm's research approach with respect to the developed markets outside of the U.S. is similar, but not identical, to the process they use in researching U.S. companies. ERP's international research considers the economic, legal, accounting, cultural and historical differences within each region and covers the broad range of issues affecting stocks and markets globally. Their stock-selection models combine measures of valuation, capital deployment, earnings quality and market reaction into a single expected return. They compare each stock to its peers within the global sector, within the geographic region and to all stocks across the entire market.