Richard S. Foote

Highbury Financial, Inc. provided permanent capital solutions to mid-sized investment management firms. It offered permanent equity capital to fund buyouts from corporate parents, buyouts of founding or departing partners, growth initiatives or exit strategies for private equity funds. The company was founded by Bruce R. Cameron, Bradley R. Forth and Richard S. Foote on July 13, 2005 and was headquartered in Denver, Colorado.

Berkshire Capital Securities LLC operates as an independent employee-owned investment bank specializing in Mergers & Acquisitions in the financial services sector. The company has partners located in Philadelphia, Denver, London, Frankfurt and Sydney. Berkshire Capital majorly transacts in the wealth management, money management, alternatives, real estate and broker/dealer industries. The company was founded in 1983 and headquartered in New York.

ZAIS Group Holdings, Inc. controls ZAIS Group LLC, an investment management company focusing on investments in specialized credit. it also offers mortgages, and other solutions including accounts and funds for larger institutional investors. The company founded on October 5, 2012 and is headquartered in Red Bank, NJ.

Pension Real Estate Association (PREA) is a non-profit trade association based in Hartford, CT, for the institutional real estate investment industry. The company's members include public and corporate pension funds, endowments, foundations, insurance companies, and investment advisory firms. PREA provides its members with materials to keep up to date on trends and issues in real estate investment decisions, including sustainability and other ESG considerations. The company also offers access to the MSCI/PREA U.S. Property Fund Index, which allows for detailed analysis of the performance of open-end property funds and their underlying investments.

CFA Institute operates as non-profit organization, which engages in the provision of chartered financial analyst programs. It offers certificate in investment performance measurement program, investment foundations, and scholarship. The company was founded in 1965 and is headquartered in Charlottesville, VA.

National Council of Real Estate Investment Fiduciaries is a non profit organization that serves the institutional real estate investment community as a non-partisan collector, validator, aggregator, converter, and disseminator of commercial real estate performance and benchmarking information. The firm provides data services to its members and the investment and academic community. The company was founded by Blake Eagle in 1978 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

The New York Society of Security Analysts, Inc. operates as a financial services trade group and networking forum for wall street and provides Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) exam. The company was founded in 1937 and is headquartered in New York, NY.