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Ariel Investments LLC (Ariel) is a SEC-registered investment advisor and fund management firm headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. The firm was founded by John W. Rogers, Jr. in 1983 and is a subsidiary of ACMI, Inc. Ariel provides investment management services to a variety of individual and institutional clients in the US. The firm also serves institutional separate account clients in Canada and offers certain separate account products to professional investors in Australia and Asia.

Neutrogena Corp. manufactures and markets skin and hair care products. Its products include cleansers, acne, moisturizers, anti-aging, and cosmetics. The company was founded by Emanuel Stolaroff in 1930 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

LB Hercules Holdings LLC provides investment management and broker dealer services. It offers tax and financial planning, fiduciary services, financial advocacy and trust services to individuals, pension and profit sharing plans, banking and thrift institutions, investment companies, pooled investment vehicles, charitable organizations, corporations and state government entities. The company manages separate client focused equity, fixed income, balanced portfolios, no-load equity, fixed income mutual funds, closed-ended municipal bond funds, real estate funds and hybrid funds. Neuberger Berman Holdings was founded by Roy R. Neuberger, Robert Berman and Howard Lipman in 1939 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLC provides assurance, tax and advisory services. Its services include audit and assurance, consulting, deals, human resources, legal, tax, and family business. The firm also offers accountability, risk management, structuring, mergers and acquisitions, and performance and process improvement. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Buffalo, NY.

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

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.

Connecticut Children's Medical Center provides medical care for children. It is the pediatric primary care service for children between Boston and New York. The neonatal intensive care unit cares for critically ill or premature newborn babies a year and some children who weigh one pound at birth. The hospital was founded in 1898 and is headquartered in Hartford, CT.

Connecticut Science Center owns and operates museum. It exhibits, a state-of-the-art 3D digital theatre, plus daily programs and events at the center. Its events and programmes include vacation exploration camps, teen program, women in science, movies, and stage shows. The company was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Hartford, CT.

University of Connecticut Health Center provides healthcare services. It is an organization, which composed of the school of medicine, John Dempsey hospital, the UConn medical group & health partners, and university dentists. It offers services for cardiovascular, cancer, behavioral, ambulatory, and neonatal intensive-care. The company was founded in 1961 and is headquartered in Farmington, CT.

The National Association of Investment Cos. is a trade association and the largest network of diverse- and women-owned alternative investment firms. The non-profit company is based in Washington. The American company has been advocating for more than 52 years and has 194 diverse-owned alternative investment firms as members. These firms collectively manage over $389 billion in assets under management and invest with over 3,100 portfolio companies. The company consistently generates superior returns that help fuel the growth of the retirement and asset management industries. Robert L. Greene has been the CEO of the company since 2013.

Hartford HealthCare Corp. provides healthcare services. It offers behavioral and mental health, bone and joint, cancer care, cardiology and heart care, centers for surgical weight loss, diabetes and endocrinology, emergency services, neurosciences, pain treatment, physical rehabilitation, senior services, and women's health. The company was founded in 1854 and is headquartered in Hartford, CT.

Liberty Bank engages in the provision of consumer and commercial banking services. It offers personal and business checking and savings accounts, lending, and credit cards; home mortgages; life insurance; and investment services. The company was founded in 1825 and is headquartered in Middletown, CT.

Cambridge Associates LLC is a privately-held, SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. The firm was founded in 1973 by James Bailey and Henry Lewis. Cambridge Associates provides investment management and advisory services to colleges and universities, foundations and other non-profit institutions. They also act as an investment adviser to private clients, family offices, corporations, healthcare institutions, insurance groups, pension plans and ERISA pools and public and government-related groups.

Polaris Partners is an Independent Venture Capital firm founded in 1996 by Stephen D. Arnold, Jonathan A. Flint and Terrance G. McGuire. Polaris Partners is headquartered in Waltham.

National Association of Securities Professionals is a Non-Profit Organization, which assists people to achieve inclusion in the financial services industry. The company was founded by Maynard H. Jackson, Felicia Flowers-Smith, Joyce M. Johnson & Donald Davidson in 1985 and is headquartered in Washington, DC.

Founded in 1969, HSBC Securities (U.S.A.) Inc. is an SEC-registered brokerage firm and registered futures commission merchant located in New York City. The firm is a wholly-owned subsidiary of HSBC North America Holdings, Inc. and their ultimate parent is HSBC Holdings Plc. (NYSE: HBC). HSBC Securities (U.S.A.) is a member of FINRA, the NYSE and the SIPC. Their securities and annuity products are provided by registered representatives and insurance agents of HSBC Securities (U.S.A.). In California, HSBC Securities (U.S.A.) conducts insurance business as HSBC Securities Insurance Services. Insurance products are offered through insurance agents of HSBC Insurance Agency (U.S.A.) Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of HSBC Bank U.S.A. NA and an indirectly wholly-owned subsidiary of HSBC Holdings plc. The company also engages in investment banking underwriting, dealing and brokering of debt and equity securities and futures contracts and is a primary dealer in U.S. Government and federal agency securities.

Horizon Technology Finance LLC is a subsidiary of Horizon Technology Finance Management LLC founded in 2003. The firm is headquartered in Farmington.

Admiin, Inc. operates as an alternative employment model for the future of finance work. The firm matches businesses with the freelance bookkeepers, accountants, financial analysts, and CFOs who provide remote, on-demand, hourly support when clients need it. The company was founded by Michael Burdick and Dan Wywrot in 2015 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Lucidworks, Inc. engages in the development of enterprise search solutions. It offers Fusion platform and managed search for Apache Solr. The company was founded by Erik Hatcher, Yonik Seeley, Frank Calderon, Krellenstein Marc and Grant Ingersoll in August 2008 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Part of Top Tier Capital Partners LLC, Top Tier Venture Velocity Growth Fund LP functions as an investment fund. The company is based in San Francisco, CA.

Advion BioSciences, Inc. provides bioanalytical contract services to the pharmaceutical industry. Its clients include academic institutions, biotechnology, and pharmaceutical companies. Advion is the partner of choice for pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and research customers requiring scientific excellence in their bioanalytical services and microfluidic chemistry systems. Its deep scientific expertise drives a product and services portfolio characterized by exceptional data quality, flexibility, speed, and regulatory compliance. Advion's excellence in method development provides a tremendous advantage in establishing reliable bioanalytical assays in a timely and cost-effective manner. Its expertise in technology development provides more information, better synthesis and mass analysis, higher yields, and substantially greater throughput. The company was founded in 1993 and is located in Ithaca, NY.

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.

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.

Device42, Inc. engages in the provision of data center infrastructure management software solutions. Its products include Device42 DCIM/ CMBD, IT for operations, and for transformation. The company was founded by Rajneesh Jalan and Steve Shwartz in 2010 and is headquartered in West Haven, CT.

Covr Financial Technologies LLC operates digital personal insurance platform. It digital platform provides way to research, compare, shop for and buy insurance from providers. The company was founded by Todd Ruplinger in 2013 and is headquartered in Boise, ID.

Inbox Health Corp. develops software that simplifies doctor and patient communication. Its product will automate many facets of patient billing while monitoring patient interaction with the bill and facilitating the payment through debit, credit and bitcoin transactions. The firm helps healthcare providers using the service have access to in-depth analytics, providing insights into patient interaction with bills and payments. The company was founded by Chris Walker, Simon Kaluza, Erroin Martin and Blake L. Walker in October 2012 and is headquartered in Madison, CT.

JPMorgan Securities LLC (JPMS) is a securities brokerage firm headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1985 and is a subsidiary of JPMorgan Broker-Dealer Holdings, Inc., ultimately held by JPMorgan Chase & Co., Inc. (NYSE: JPM). JPMS provides research on fixed income, credit, derivatives, emerging markets, foreign exchange, structured finance, technical analysis and bond indices. Their equity analysts cover equities throughout North America, EMEA, Asia/Pacific and the emerging markets. The firm's fixed income team formulates trading and portfolio recommendations for investors in global bonds and other fixed-income markets based on valuations, analytics and market dynamics.