Mary-Margaret Rasco

Investment Management of Virginia LLC (IMVA) is an investment management firm headquartered in Richmond, Virginia. The firm was founded in 1982 as Scott & Stringfellow Capital Management, Inc., in 1982. They were acquired by Pinnacle Associates Ltd. in 2023. IMVA provides professional money management services to high net-worth individuals, foundations, and institutions.

Davenport & Co. LLC (Davenport) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Richmond, Virginia. The firm was founded in 1863 and is a subsidiary of Davenport & Co. of Virginia, Inc. Davenport manages separate accounts for individuals, institutions, ERISA plans, trusts, estates, corporations, and other types of entities. They also serve as the Advisor to various mutual funds.

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.

Stephens Investment Management Group LLC (SIMG) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Little Rock, Arkansas. The firm was founded in 2005 and is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Stephens Investments Holdings LLC, which is a privately held company, owned by the Warren A. Stephens Trust controlled by Warren A. Stephens. SIMG is primarily an investment adviser to institutional accounts, high net-worth individuals and to investment companies.

Highland Capital Management LP (Highland) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Dallas, Texas. The firm was founded by James (Jim) Dondero and Mark Okada in 1993. They are owned by the Highland Claimant Trust. Highland acts as an investment adviser or sub-adviser to structured product vehicles (which include but not limited to CLOs and Collateralized Debt Obligations unregistered investment funds, and single Client accounts).

University of Houston System offers higher education degrees and job training or vocational study programs. It offers about 280 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in fields such as business, education, humanities and law. It was founded in 1927 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

Founded in 1958, Merrill Lynch Piece Fenner & Smith, Inc. is an SEC registered broker/dealer located in New York City. The firm is a subsidiary of BAC North America Holding Co. and their ultimate parent is Bank of America Corp. (NYSE BAC).

William Blair & Co. LLC (William Blair) is a SEC-registered broker/dealer firm headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. The firm was founded by William McCormick Blair in 1935 and is a subsidiary of WBC Holdings LP. Until 1941, they were known as Blair, Bonner & Co. William Blair provides broking services to individual, institutional and issuing clients.

Ernst & Young provides accounting services. Its services include auditing, accounting, tax and transaction services, assurance and advisory business, online transaction advisory and a wide range of financial services. The company was founded by Arthur Young and Alwin C. Ernst in 1881 and is headquartered in Kansas City, MO.

Fidelity National Financial, Inc. (Investment Management) (FNF-IM) is the asset management division of Fidelity National Financial, Inc. (NYSE: FNF), a holding company which provides title insurance and transaction services to the real estate and mortgage industries through its subsidiaries. FNF-IM is headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida. The firm operates through Fidelity National Title Group segment which consists of the operations of title insurance underwriters, escrow services, and other title related services including collection and trust activities, trustee's sales guarantees, recordings and conveyances, and home warranty insurance.

ACK Asset Management LLC (ACK) is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in Greenwich, Connecticut. The firm was founded by Richard Meisenberg and John Reilly in 2005. ACK serves as the investment adviser to several private funds.

Sun Capital Partners, Inc. (Sun Capital Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 1995 by Rodger R. Krouse and Marc J. Leder. The firm is headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida.

Uplift Education operates as a public charter school network. Its programs include child nutrition, pre-kindergarten, special populations, afterschool care, athletics, social and emotional health. The company was founded in1996 and is headquartered in Dallas, TX.

Fastwave Medical, Inc. is a medical company that specializes in developing intravascular lithotripsy (IVL) systems for calcific artery disease. Fastwave Medical is based in Maple Grove, MN. The company aims to redefine the sector by introducing next-generation IVL technologies that improve patient care and the clinician experience while emphasizing procedural efficiency and cost-effectiveness. The company was founded by Scott Nelson, Brady Hatcher, J. C. Sun, and Scott Nelson has been the CEO since incorporation.

Ampersand Partners LLC provides banking and financial services. The company is based in St. Louis, MO and has subsidiaries in the United States.

Deloitte & Touche LLP engages in the provision of audit, advisory, financial advisory, tax, and consulting services. The company was founded on March 7, 1995 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Founded in 2002 by Hunter Thompson and William Davis, Thompson Davis & Co. (TD & Co.) is an independent investment research firm and broker/dealer located in Richmond, Virginia with an additional office in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The firm is a member of FINRA and the SIPC. TD & Co. provides unbiased, original research and services to institutional and retail investors. They do not perform research on companies for investment banking opportunities. TD & Co. also offers a full-range of financial services ranging from financial planning and private money management to corporate and municipal bonds. TD & Co.'s research team employs a focused methodology. They seek to identified, under followed, undervalued growth companies. The firm uses computer screens that look for companies with sequential revenue and earnings growth and strong balance sheets that are selling at a discount to their growth rates. Specifically, TD& Co. looks for companies with several characteristics: (1) 20% + revenue and earnings growth (2) sequential revenue and earnings growth, i.e., quarter over quarter improvement in both the top and bottom line (3) top management is buying the company's stock in the open market with their own money (4) significant management ownership of the stock (5) strong balance sheets with little or no debt or manageable declining debt, strong cash position or debt reduction efforts (6) operating in a growing market sector (no deep cyclicals or natural resource sectors) (7) gross margin expansion and market share gains and (8) selling at a discount to the company growth rate, allowing for p/e expansion toward growth rate.

Oppenheimer & Co., Inc. (Broker) (Oppenheimer-Broker) is the global full-service brokerage division of Oppenheimer & Co., Inc., an investment boutique headquartered in New York City with additional offices nationwide. Founded in 1975, the firm is owned directly by Viner Finance Inc., an indirect subsidiary of Oppenheimer Holdings Inc. (NYSE: OPY). Oppenheimer-Broker offers a full array of brokerage services to retail, institutional, and corporate clients.

Blackstreet Capital Management LLC is an Independent Private Equity firm founded in 2002 by Murry Neal Gunty. The firm is headquartered in Bethesda.

Hilltop Securities, Inc. (dba HilltopSecurities) is a broker/dealer firm headquartered in Dallas, Texas. The firm was founded in 1946 as Southwest Securities, Inc. and they a subsidiary of Hilltop Securities Holdings LLC. Hilltop Securities provides a full array of trading and execution services for their clients.