Mike J. Marek

KeyBanc Capital Markets, Inc. is a registered investment bank and broker/dealer headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio. The firm was founded in 1983 and is a subsidiary of KeyCorp. (NYSE: KEY). KeyBanc Capital Markets provides investment banking, commercial lending, treasury management, derivatives, foreign exchange, equity and debt underwriting and trading and syndicated finance products and services to large corporations and middle-market companies.

Piper Sandler & Co. (Broker) (PSC-Broker) is the full-service brokerage division of Piper Sandler & Co., a financial service firm headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota. They are a subsidiary of Piper Sandler Companies (NYSE: PIPR). The firm was founded in 1969 and previously known as Piper Jaffray & Co. They became Piper Sandler & Co. when Piper Jaffray Companies and Sandler O’Neill & Partners, L.P. merged to become Piper Sandler Companies in 2020. PSC-Broker provides brokerage and investment banking services to financial institutions, corporations and other financial investors. Their core focus sectors are Agriculture, renewables & cannabis, Business services, Chemicals & Materials, Consumer, Diversified industrials & services, Energy, Financial services, financial sponsors, Healthcare, and Technology.

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

Gillette Generators, Inc. is a company that specializes in building and delivering world-class products and services that exceed customer expectations. The company's mission is to provide excellent customer service satisfaction that is deemed greater in value than their product's price. The company was founded in 1960, and the CEO is Charlie Habic. The company is based in Elkhart, IN. Gillette Generators produces prime gas generators that are engineered to handle the difficult conditions of remote oil and gas operations and off-grid applications with continuous duty cycles.

Kroll Securities LLC provides financial advisor and investment management services. The company is headquartered in New York, NY.

Qal-Tek Associates LLC engages in the provision of radiation control devices and services. It offers industrial and safety, emergency and security, and construction and engineering solutions. The company was founded by H. Dale Snowder and Bryce Rich in 1998 and is headquartered Idaho Falls, ID.

Thaler Machine Co. LLC, founded in 1952, manufactures and supplies high precision components for missiles, aircraft engines, and warheads. The company is based in Springboro, OH.

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.

HCP & Co. (HCP) is a private equity firm founded in 2003 by Victor L. Maruri and Carlos L. Signoret. The firm is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

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.

Ravinia Festival Association provides professional music shows. Its programs include reach programs, teach programs, instrument game, and program for jazz. The company was founded in 1904 and is located in Highland Park, IL.

Part of Kroll LLC, Duff & Phelps Acquisitions LLC is an American company that offers financial advisory and investment management services.

Standard & Poor's Financial Services provides financial market intelligence services. It offers credit ratings, indices, risk evaluation, investment research and data to the financial decision-makers. The company was founded in 1860 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Kroll LLC provides global advisory services. It offers valuation advisory; governance, risk, investigation, and disputes; kroll cyber risk, corporates finance, and compliance and regulatory consulting. The company was founded by William Duff and George Phelps in 1932 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Prolacta Bioscience, Inc. provides specialty formulations of human milk for the nutritional needs of premature and critically ill infants. Its products include Prolact+ H2MF, Prolact+4, Prolact+6, Prolact+8, Prolact+10 and Neo20. The company was founded by Elena Taggart Medo in1999 and is headquartered in Duarte, CA.

Cognient Group LLC provides investment banking services. It offers merger and acquisitions, fairness and solvency opinions, recapitalizations, private placements of debt and equity, portfolio valuation, strategic planning, corporate valuations, and dispute resolutions and litigation support. The company was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Tooling Technology LLC provides tooling design services. It offers tooling for a variety of material forming processes including: thermoforming, twin-sheet and single-sheet vacuum forming, pressure forming, compression molding, rotational molding, blow molding, resin transfer molding, rubber and polyurethane molding, carpet and metal stamping, foundry tooling and pulp molding. The firm provides different types of forming tools for industries and products including, medical equipment, dunnage trays and pallets, hot tubs, spas, bathtubs, showers, swimming pools and steps, luggage, point-of -purchase displays, kitchen and bath products, boats, canoes, kayaks, agricultural and construction machinery aircraft and rail car interior and exterior systems, drainage systems, golf cars, off-road vehicles, defense systems, appliances, lawn and garden products, racing car bodies and windscreens, fountains, and other custom outdoor, recreational and consumer products. The company was founded in 1982 and is headquartered in Fort Loramie, OH.

Natural Gas Partners LLC (NGP) is a private equity firm, a subsidiary of NGP Energy Capital Management, LLC founded in 1988 by David Russell Albin and Kenneth Alfredo Hersh. The firm is headquartered in Dallas, Texas.

Arbor Investments Management LLC (Arbor Investment) is a private equity firm founded in 1999 by Gregory Purcell and Joseph Campolo. The firm is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois with an office in New York.

J&M Capital LLC provides new and used construction equipment sales, rental, service and parts. It offers in-house service, hydraulic system servicing and hydraulic cylinder repairs and mobile equipment services. The company was founded by Jeffrey L. Grasman and Matt Grasman in 2000 and is headquartered in Hudsonville, MI.

Wilkins Media LLC is an out of home specialist firm that provides a wide range of services including Traditional OOH, Transit & Street Furniture, Place Based, Programmatic DOOH, Experiential, Geofencing & Mobile Retargeting, Creative Services, and Production Services. The company is based in New York, NY. With over 55 years of experience, Wilkins handles all types of OOH media throughout the world. Jonathan Joseph Selame has been the CEO of the company since 2012.

Charlotte Street Partners LLC (Charlotte Street Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 2011 by Jon J. Selame. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Out-of-Home America, Inc. provides outdoor advertising services. It leverages its out-of-home media spend to provide its client partners with media format available. The firm works to help its client partners generate a significant ROI on advertising investment. The company was founded by Loretta M. Berry in 1983 and is headquartered in East Hartford, CT.

Global Advertising Strategies, Inc. offers marketing communications consultancy services. It provides market entry feasibility, research and consulting, qualitative market analysis, media planning & buying, media outreach, public relations strategic planning, and strategy development services. The company was founded in 1999 by Givi Topchishvili and is headquartered in Brooklyn, NY.

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.

a360, Inc. operates as a technology and outsourcing services provides to th financial services, real estate and legal industries. The firm offers case management system technology and practice management services to law firms, title agencies, and underwriters, and mortgage companies and investors. It also provide solutions in the area of technology, outsourcing, consulting, compliance, title information and invoice, billing and collections. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Carrollton, TX.