Katie Kruse

Kopernik Global Investors LLC (Kopernik) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Tampa, Florida. The firm was founded by David Iben in 2013 and is principally owned by Kopernik Holdings LLC. Kopernik provides investment advisory services to individual and institutional clients on a discretionary and non-discretionary basis.

Founded in 2006, Tradewinds Global Investors LLC is a registered investment advisor headquartered in Los Angeles. The firm was created through a reorganization of their affiliate, NWQ Investment Management Co. They are a subsidiary of Nuveen Investments, Inc. Tradewinds provides investment advisory services to a wide variety of clients, including corporate and multi-employer plans, charitable organizations, educational institutions, individuals, high net-worth individuals, trust accounts, estates, corporations and/or other business entities, banks and thrift institutions, insurance companies, governments and municipalities. They provide investment sub-advisory services to affiliated and unaffiliated open-end and closed-end investment companies, CITs and other non-US pooled investment vehicles, including UCITS funds. Tradewinds also provides investment advisory services to a number of private investment funds which are generally organized as Delaware statutory trusts.

Founded by Jeffrey Vinik in 1996, Vinik Asset Management LP is a hedge fund manager located Tampa, Florida. The firm manages a pool of money for the firm's principals and their families.