Julie Castro Abrams

Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. provides insurance and financial services. It offers insurance and protection, investing and retirement, banking and borrowing, life events and planning, claims, pay a bill, and business coverage advisor. The company was founded in 1925 and is headquartered in Columbus, OH.

Founded by William J. Ruane in 1969, Ruane, Cunniff & Goldfarb, Inc. is a registered investment advisor headquartered in New York City. The firm provides investment advisory services on a discretionary basis to their clients, which include individuals and institutions with separately managed accounts, private funds, and the Sequoia Fund, Inc., a registered investment company. They also provide advisory services to private funds intended for sophisticated investors and institutional investors. ^

eHarmony, Inc. engages in the provision of online relationship matchmaking services. The firm’s compatibility matching system allows members to be matched with compatible persons. The company was founded by Dr. Neil Clark Warren and Greg Forgatch in 2000 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

Pruco Securities LLC, do-business-as Prudential Financial Planning Services (PFPS), is a registered investment advisor headquartered in Newark, New Jersey. The firm was founded by Al Steele in 2007 and is wholly-owned by The Prudential Insurance Company of America, Inc., which in turn is an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Prudential Financial, Inc. (NYSE: PRU). PFPS provides financial planning services to individuals, families, businesses, and associations throughout the US. They also sponsor wrap fee programs.

Founded in 2003, Ruane Cunniff & Goldfarb LLC is a brokerage services company. The company is based in New York, NY.

Viamet Pharmaceuticals, Inc. discovers and develops inhibitors of validated metalloenzymes. The firm's clinical portfolio includes novel agents to treat both chronic and life threatening fungal infections. It also leverage our metalloenzyme expertise in other therapeutic areas including oncology and orphan diseases. The company was founded by Thomas V. O’Halloran and Holden H. Thorp on August 18, 2005 and is headquartered in Durham, NC.

Viamet Pharmaceuticals Corp. engages in the discovery, development, and commercialization of novel pharmaceuticals based on its proprietary metalloenzyme chemistry and biology technology platform. Its clinical portfolio includes novel agents to treat chronic and life threatening fungal infections. Its products include VT-1161, an oral agent that treats onychomycosis; VT-1129, which treats cryptococcal meningitis; and VT-1598, that treats coccidioidomycosis. The company was founded by Herbert Holden Thorp and Thomas V. O'Halloran in December 2011 and is headquartered in Durham, NC.

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.

Duke University is an academic university that offers undergraduate, graduate and professional programs. It also has publications and research services. The university was founded in 1838 and is headquartered in Durham, NC.

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.

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.

A.T. Kearney, Inc. engages in the provision of management consulting services. Its services include strategic, operational and technology consulting executive search services. The company was founded by Andrew Thomas Kearney in 1926 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

University of Southern California is a private research university that mainly offers undergraduate, graduate & other higher education. The university was founded in 1880 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

Winston & Strawn LLP provides legal services. Its service areas include antitrust & trade regulations, employment & labor relations, intellectual property, taxation & trusts, and estates to automotive, aviation, electric power, financial services, and health care. The company was founded by Frederick H. Winston in 1853 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Part of News Corp., The Wall Street Journal Europe Holding, Inc. provides financial commentary.

Founded in 1971, Samuel A. Ramirez & Co., Inc. is a full-service securities firm and broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm provides services to individuals, business owners, institutional investors and government agencies. They offer professional services focusing on wealth management, underwriting, banking, institutional brokerage, research and asset management. Samuel A. Ramirez & Co. provides retail and institutional trading expertise in tax-free municipal bonds, equities, government bonds, corporate bonds and alternative investments. The research group provides research to institutional investors on equity, macroeconomics and fixed-income for the U.S. and the U.S. Hispanic market. The firm has ten main divisions: private client, municipal bond department, institutional equity, transition management group, taxable fixed-income group, equity capital markets, debt capital markets, mergers and acquisitions/strategic business advisory, Ramirez Research Group and Ramirez Asset Management. The Private Client Services Group performs portfolio management, retirement planning, financial and estate planning for individuals, business owners, corporations and institutions. The group offers an array of investment disciplines including equity and fixed income, diversification strategies, insurance and alternative investments. The Municipal Bond Department provides banking, underwriting, sales, trading and distribution services to states, local governments and their agencies throughout the U.S. The Equity Capital Markets Group offers underwriting services to corporations, public retirement programs and to some of the nation's largest professional money managers. The firm's equity underwritings include spin-offs, private equity sponsored transactions, equity recapitalizations by financial institutions and traditional IPOs. The Debt Capital Markets Group offers underwriting of fixed-income securities including corporate bonds, convertible bonds, ABS, preferred stock and U.S. Agency notes. The firm is a co-manager or underwriter of debt in the traditional corporate bond market, the retail targeted hybrid and trust preferred market, the tax-exempt market (for select corporations) and is a member of the selling group for the major U.S. Agencies. The Institutional Equity Group offers performance-enhancing products and services, value added investment ideas and agency only/non-conflicting trade execution for institutions, corporations and government agencies in both the U.S. and international markets. The Taxable Fixed Income Group offers the firm's institutional and high net-worth retail clients access to new issues as well as secondary trading in corporate bonds, U.S. Agency securities, $25-preferreds, MBS, ABS and convertible bonds. Ramirez Asset Management offers managed accounts to individuals and institutions for fixed-income, equities and balanced accounts. Their institutional fixed-income portfolios include cash, enhanced cash, core and core plus strategies.

The European Central Bank (ECB) is the central bank for Europe's single currency, the euro. The ECB’s main task is to maintain the euro's purchasing power and thus price stability in the euro area. The main objective of the Eurosystem is to maintain price stability: safeguarding the value of the euro. It was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Frankfurt, Germany.

Panda Energy International, Inc. develops and operates power plants. It offers third party operations and maintenance and outage services, turnkey commissioning, startup, and complete staffing needs for all aspects of project development and execution. The company was founded by Janice Carter in 1982 and is headquartered in Dallas, TX.

MH Sub I LLC, headquartered in El Segundo, CA, is a fully integrated online media and software services organization focused on four high-value vertical categories: health, automotive, legal, and home/travel. The company's powerful, proprietary operating platform provides the flexibility and scalability to fuel its continued growth. Internet Brands is a portfolio company of KKR and Temasek. MH Sub I LLC was founded in 1998 by Jerry R. Farrar, Scott Edward Painter, Bill T. Gross, Bill Gross, Steve Glenn, and Robert N. Brisco has been the CEO of the company since 1999. MH Sub I was acquired by Internet Brands, Inc./Private Group/ on December 31, 2014, for $1,100 million.

National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. was founded in 1920. The non-profit company is based in Cambridge, MA. The company provides investment research.

The Illinois State Bar Association is a state bar association that serves lawyers. The association is based in Springfield, IL. The association provides various resources for lawyers, including legal forms, expert services, and publications. It also offers continuing legal education programs and hosts events for lawyers.

Part of Nant Capital LLC, Los Angeles Times Media Group is a company that provides advertising services. The company is based in Los Angeles, CA. Mickie Rosen has been the CEO of the company since 2017.

The Association of Insurance & Financial Analysts, Inc. is a trade group that provides a forum for discussion of securities issues. The non-profit company is based in New York, NY.

UBS Investment Bank provides investment banking and securities brokerage services. Its clients include institutional and corporate clients, intermediaries, governments, and hedge funds. The firm also provides merger and acquisition advisory, private placement, investment research, foreign exchange, equity, and leverage finance advisory services. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Panda Power Generation Infrastructure (Panda Power Generation) is a private equity firm founded in 2010. The firm is headquartered in Dallas, Texas.

Part of Porch Group, Inc., Homeowners of America Insurance Co. is a company that provides insurance services. The company is based in Irving, TX. The company was founded by Spencer William Tucker. Spencer William Tucker has been the CEO since incorporation.

Energy Capital Ventures (Energy Capital Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2020 by Victor Pascucci. The firm is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.