Lynnette D. Okwuonu

Merrill Lynch Ventures LLC is a venture capital firm headquartered in New York City. The firm is a division of the Merrill Lynch Global Markets & Investment Banking Group and their ultimate parent is Bank of America Corp. (NYSE: BAC).

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.

UHY Advisors, Inc. provides tax, audit and financial accounting services. It offers tax, audit, advisory, and forensic, litigation and valuation services including audits of financial statements and employee benifit plans, internal audit, risk, compliance, management, technology consulting transaction, business valuation, family law and loss/damage determination services. The firm serves to the construction, dealerships, energy, financial, health care, governmental, real estate, staffing and technology industries. The company was founded in July 2000 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Academy Wealth Management, Inc. (Academy Wealth) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana. The firm was founded by David Brown, Randall Clark, Richard (Rick) Knop and Channing (Chap) Mitzell in 1986 as Windsor Wealth Management, Inc. They were acquired in 2023 by CI Financial Corp. (TSX: CIX) in Canada. Academy Wealth provides financial planning and portfolio management services to individuals, pension and profit-sharing plans, charitable organizations, corporations or other businesses, trusts and estates.