Kenneth Johnson

Riverside Partners LLC /New York/ (Riverside Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 1988 by Bela Szigethy. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts with additional offices across the globe.

Soothe, Inc. provides an online and mobile application for massage therapy. It offers massage modalities, including Swedish, deep tissue, sports, and prenatal. The company was founded by Merlin Kauffman in 2013 and is headquartered in Hollywood, CA.

CertaSite LLC offers fire protection services. Its services include NFPA control ladder and DOT hydro testing, exit emergency lighting, restaurant suppression, barcode management, fire extinguishers, backflow testing, training, fire alarms and sprinkler fire pump services. The company was founded by John Lubinski in February 1999 and is headquartered in Kent, OH.

It's Just Lunch International LLC provides specialized dating services for busy professionals. It helps busy professional singles to find compatible matches. The company was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in Palm Desert, CA.

EagleTree Capital LP (EagleTree Capital) is an independent private equity firm founded in 1990. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, Inc. (MLPFS) is the SEC-registered broker/dealer subsidiary of Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc., ultimately held by Charlotte-based Bank of America Corp. (NYSE: BAC). The firm was founded in 1958 and is headquartered in New York City. In 2010, Banc of America Securities LLC merged with MLPFS and the firm uses the trade name Bank of America Merrill Lynch. MLPFS's global strategy and economics team serves institutional and individual investors using a wide range of macroeconomic disciplines. Their analysis of global issues provides clients with investment ideas, market forecasts, macro overviews and specific sector recommendations across asset classes, regions and disciplines. Their equity research team conducts fundamental analysis on companies globally and provides institutional and retail clients with industry-specific and in-depth research and analysis on numerous industries. The firm's global fixed-income and equity-linked research focuses on fixed-income and equity derivatives, fixed-income strategy, convertibles, commodities, high-yield, mortgages, municipals and global foreign exchange.