Raymond C. Almgren

Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC (Credit Suisse Securities USA) is the broker/dealer division of Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, an investment banking company headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1998 and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Credit Suisse (USA), Inc., ultimately owned by Credit Suisse Group AG (SWX: CSGN) in Switzerland. Credit Suisse Securities USA offers a suite of equities, solutions and credit products and services which includes global securities sales, trading and execution, prime brokerage and comprehensive investment research. Their clients include financial institutions, corporations, governments, institutional investors, such as pension funds and hedge funds, and private individuals around the world.

The Teacher Retirement System of Texas (TRS) is a state-owned pension fund manager headquartered in Austin, Texas. The firm was founded by the Texas Legislature in 1937 to provide service and disability retirement benefits to teachers and administrators of the public school systems of Texas, which include institutions of higher education. In 1949, legislation expanded membership eligibility to include all employees of public education institutions. In 1985, TRS was assigned responsibility to administer health insurance program for public school retirees. The firm invests funds under its stewardship and delivers benefits to members as authorized by the Texas Legislature.

Merrill Lynch International (MLI-UK) is a brokerage firm headquartered in London, UK. The firm was founded in 1988 and is a subsidiary of ML UK Capital Holdings Ltd., ultimately owned by Bank of America Corp. (NYSE: BAC) in the US. MLI-UK provides brokerage services to individual and retail clients.

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.

State Bar of Texas provides legal educational programming services. The private company is based in Austin, TX.

American Bar Association provides legal services. It provides law school accreditation, continuing legal education, legal information and other services to assist legal professionals. The firm has members which include judges, court administrators, law professors, and non-practicing attorneys. The company was founded on August 21, 1878 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

The Texas Business Hall of Fame Foundation engages in recognizing the accomplishments and contributions of Texas business leaders, to perpetuate and inspire the values of entrepreneurial spirit. The company was founded in 1982 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

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.

Arthur Andersen LLP used to provide accounting services. It was also into consulting services for clients that operate businesses throughout the United States and around the world. Arthur Andersen was founded in 1913 and was headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Crow Holdings, Inc. is an independent investment advisory firm headquartered in Dallas, Texas. The firm was founded in 1988 and focuses on multi-family, industrial and niche property types delivered through core, value-add and opportunistic investment vehicles.

SensorBit Systems, Inc. develops and commercializes a new vapor sensing technology. Its Sensor-on-Chip, a semiconductor chip with vapor sensing technology for detecting trace amounts of complex chemical vapors. The company was founded on January 1, 2010 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

Precyse Technologies, Inc. provides wireless remote entity awareness and control solutions. It serves industrial manufacturing and other hazardous and non-hazardous heavy industries. The company was founded by Rom Eizenberg, Michael Braiman and A. Russell Chandler III in 2004 and is headquartered in Reston, VA.

The Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, is among the foremost of institutes of national importance in higher technological education and in basic and applied research. The Institute, with nearly 360 faculty, 4000 students, 1250 administrative and supporting staff, is a self-contained campus and is located in a beautiful, wooded land of about 250 hectares in South Madras

venVelo (venVelo) is a venture capital firm founded in 2011 by Allen H Kupetz and Peter McAlindon. The firm is headquartered in Orlando, Florida.

Part of Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings, Inc., The Sumitomo Trust & Banking Co. (USA) Ltd. provides investment advice services. The company is based in New York, NY.

American Chemical Society engages as a scientific society which supports scientific inquiry in the field of chemistry. The company was founded in 1876 and is headquartered in Washington, DC.

Sestina Bio LLC operates a platform for automated synthetic biology. It provides technology centric, R&D platform to provide cutting edge solutions to sustainably feed and clothe. The firms approach is to integrate tools for genome editing, single cell biology, and machine learning to transform ability to engineer and harness biological function. The company was founded by William Wayne Colston, Jr. and is headquartered in Pleasanton, CA.

RubrYc Therapeutics, Inc. develops antibody therapy applications. Its products include RubrYc Discovery Engine, through which people can decode protein interactions through the integration of data and biological science. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in San Carlos, CA.

Purigen Biosystems, Inc. engages in extracting, enriching and quantifying DNA and RNA from biological samples. The company was founded in 2012 by Amy Hiddessen, Klint Rose and Juan Santiago and is headquartered in Pleasanton, CA.

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory provides nuclear testing services. The Laboratory's security needs include countering the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and strengthening homeland security against the terrorist use of such weapons. The company was founded in 1952 and is headquartered in Livermore, CA.

HealthTell, Inc. develops healthcare diagnosing tools for individuals to monitor their health status. It offers OneTest, a new technology for the early detection and monitoring of progressive diseases and the test is simple and inexpensive, and can be performed with only a single drop of blood. The company was founded in 2010 by Stephen Albert Johnston and Neal Woodbury and is headquartered in Chandler, AZ.

Bell Laboratories, Inc. manufactures rodent control products. It has developed products such as rodenticides, tamper-resistant bait stations, non-poisonous glue boards, and mechanical mousetraps to control rats. The company was founded by Malcolm Stack in 1974 and is headquartered in Madison, WI.

Celeste Mining Corp. is a junior natural resource company, which engages in the acquisition, exploration, and development of mineral properties. The company was founded by David B. McQuaig on April 27, 2007 and is headquartered in Beaconsfield, Canada.