Robert C. Walker

Heller Financial, Inc. provided mercantile financing. It was acquired by GE Capital Corp. The company was located in Chicago, IL

Mesirow Financial Investment Management, Inc. (MFIM) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. The firm was established in 1986 and their sole shareholder is Mesirow Financial Services, Inc., which is wholly-owned by Mesirow Financial Holdings, Inc., a Chicago-based financial services firm that was founded in 1937. MFIM provides advisory services to individuals, corporations or other businesses, pension and profit-sharing plans, non-qualified plans, state or municipal government entities, and charitable organizations.

JPMorgan Investment Management, Inc. (JPMIM) is a global, SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 2000 as the result of Chase Manhattan's purchase of Robert Fleming Holdings and the subsequent merger of Chase and JPMorgan. In January 2010, JPMorgan Investment Advisors merged into JP Morgan Investment Management. JPMIM is a subsidiary of JPMorgan Asset Management Holdings, Inc., ultimately owned by JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM). The firm primarily provides investment advisory services to both US and non-US institutional and retail clients.

Mason Street Advisors LLC (MSA) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The firm was founded in 2001 and is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co. MSA provides professional portfolio management services for institutional investors by providing continuous investment advice and management based upon the individual needs and objectives of each client.

Wellington Management Co. LLP (WMC) is a registered investment advisor and mutual fund manager headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. The firm was founded in 1928 and is a subsidiary of Wellington Investment Advisors Holdings LLP, ultimately held by Wellington Management Group LLP. WMC offers investment management services for a fee to separate account clients and mutual funds sponsored by unaffiliated parties, as well as to investment vehicles that the firm sponsors.

Harvard Management Co., Inc. (HMC) is the investment arm of President & Fellows of Harvard College, which is owned by Harvard University, a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The firm was founded in 1974 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. HMC manages Harvard’s endowment, a dedicated and permanent source of funding that maintains the teaching and research mission of the University. HMC invests these funds as a single entity, the revenue from which contributes more than one-third of the University's annual operating budget.

Morgan Dempsey Capital Management LLC (Morgan Dempsey) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin. The firm was founded by R. Thomas Dempsey in 1994 and is wholly-owned by MDCM Holdings LLC, which is majority owned by MDCM Legacy LLC. Morgan Dempsey manages assets for institutions, individual investors, and Registered Investment Advisors.

ARCH Venture Partners LLC is a Venture Capital firm founded in 1986. The firm is headquartered in Chicago with additional office in Dublin.

Cassatt Corp. offers clients the capability of implementing cloud-style computing environments using their existing systems, inside firewalls of their data centers, without having to modify their current hardware or software. The company was founded by William T. Coleman III and Mark A. Forman in September 2003 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

SOASTA, Inc. provides test automation solutions for web applications and services. The firm’s products include mPulse, CloudTest, TouchTest, DOC and Pricing. Its solutions include web performance testing, real user monitoring, mobile performance testing and mobile test automation. The company was founded by Kenneth C. Gardner, Lisa Bergamo, Mike Hemmert, Craig Powers, Kenneth Holcomb, Kendall Cosby and Tom Lounibos in February 2006 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

Appcelerator, Inc. provides enterprise mobile engagement platform. Its cloud based platform enables users to build and test cross-platform applications. The company was founded by Jeffrey G. Haynie and Nolan Wright in 2006 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

Liberty Group Ltd. provides financial services. It offers solutions to individual, family, and business. The company was founded by Donald Gordon in 1957 and is headquartered in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Saatchi & Saatchi Plc a holding company, group engaged in advertising and marketing services. The company is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Denel SOC Ltd. manufactures defense equipment. Its products include aircraft MRO, artillery Systems, pyrotechnics, turrets for armored vehicles, and energetic materials. The company was founded on April 1, 1992 and is headquartered in Pretoria, South Africa.

Part of EMCORE Corp., MicroOptical Devices, Inc. designs and develops high quality optical components and subsystems. The company is based in Albuquerque, NM. The company was founded by Tom Brennan, Robert P. Bryan. MicroOptical Devices was acquired by EMCORE Corp. on December 05, 1997 for $28.70 million.

FlipChip International LLC provides wafer bumping and wafer level packaging semiconductor services. The firm’s services include wafer level services, probing, backgrind, decing, packing, solder alloy, and many more. It also offers wafer thinning, electrical test, and dicing. The company was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Phoenix, AZ.

Dimensional Fund Advisors Ltd. (DFAL) is a mutual fund management firm headquartered in London, UK. The firm was founded in 1990 and is a subsidiary of Dimensional Fund Advisors LP (DFA), ultimately held by Dimensional Holdings, Inc. in the US. DFAL provides sub-advisory services to DFA, a registered investment advisor, primarily in connection with DFA’s management of the US Dimensional Funds, and also certain institutional separate accounts.

IBM Microelectronics, Inc. develops and markets customized semiconductor products and services. The company also develops, manufactures and test leading-edge semiconductor packaging technologies to develop future semiconductor products and processes. IBM Microelectronics was founded in 1964 and is headquartered in White Plains, NY.

Sandia National Laboratories develops science based technologies. The company provides research services in nuclear weapons, energy and infrastructure assurance, nonproliferation, and defense systems. The company was founded in 1948 and is headquartered in Albuquerque, NM.

The American Academy of Arts & Sciences is an organization that honors excellence and brings together leaders. The non-profit company is based in Cambridge, MA.

The National Academy of Medicine (United States) is based in Washington and is focused on improving the health and well-being of individuals through various initiatives. These initiatives include the clinician well-being collaborative, which aims to accelerate the implementation of a national plan for health workforce well-being, and the development of a code of conduct for the use of artificial intelligence in health care. The organization also provides resources to support meaningful community engagement in health and health care programs and policies. Recently, the National Academy of Medicine announced the appointment of Mandy Cohen, a member of the organization, as the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Additionally, the organization has released a publication celebrating 50 years of progress in biomedical science, health, and health care.

Robert W. Baird & Co., Inc. operates as a wealth management, capital markets, private equity and asset management firm. It offers equity research, corporate restructuring, mergers and acquisitions, public financing and fixed income services. The firm serves individual, corporate, institutional and municipal clients. The company was founded by Robert Wilson Baird in 1919 and is headquartered in Milwaukee, WI.

The Boston Foundation manages charitable funds. The foundation is made up of separate funds, which have been established by hundreds of donors either for the general benefit of the community or for special purposes. It is also a partner in philanthropy, making it easy for donors to give, and keeping donors informed about programs that are working. The Boston Foundation was founded in 1915 and is located in Boston, MA.

E&G Technology Partners LLC engages in technology commercialization and business development. Its services include flip chip & wafer level package consultation and market & business development. The company was founded by Peter Elenius and Thomas Goodman and is headquartered in Tempe, AZ.

AbleLight provides medical and housing care to individuals with developmental disabilities across the United States. It offers Christ-centered support services to the people and provides resources for their families, friends, congregations and other service providers. The company was founded in 1904 and is headquartered in Watertown, WI.

Accelerate Long Island/venture capital/ (Accelerate Long Island (Venture Capital)) is a venture capital firm, a subsidiary of Accelerate Long Island, Inc founded in 2016. The firm is headquartered in Melville, New York.

Aralez Bio is an American company that specializes in the production of noncanonical amino acids using biocatalysis. The company's process involves a single step enzyme synthesis that can produce hundreds of tryptophan analogs. The company was founded in 2019 by Frances Hamilton Arnold, Christina Boville, and David Romney. Christina Boville has been the CEO since 2019.

National Resilience, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical manufacturing and technology company, which engages in the development of vaccines. It offers virus production, formulations, RNA modalities, and CMC development. The company was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in La Jolla, CA.

Generate Biomedicines, Inc. is a drug generation company that has developed a machine learning-powered multimodality generative biology platform capable of generating new drugs on demand across a wide range of biologic modalities. Generate Biomedicines is based in Somerville, MA. The platform seamlessly integrates computational and wet lab capabilities, improving the speed at which targets and therapeutics are identified and validated, the specificity of target engagement by generated proteins, and the cost of identifying and developing clinical candidates. The company's platform represents a potentially fundamental shift in what's possible in the field of therapeutic development, addressing key challenges of drug discovery and drastically expanding the available search space for novel biomedicines. The company was founded in 2018 by Poorya Hosseini, Molly Gibson, Geoffrey von Maltzahn, Avak Kahvejian, Gevorg Grigoryan. Michael T. Nally has been the CEO of the company since 2018.

Echo Investment Capital LLC (Echo Investment Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 2020 by Christian Kanady. The firm is headquartered in Oklahoma.

Founded in 1975, the Greater Worcester Community Foundation, Inc. is a public charitable corporation located in Worcester, Massachusetts. The Greater Worcester Community Foundation's asset allocation policy is designed to preserve and grow principal over the long-term. The Investment Committee reviews performance evaluation data and selects managers for each asset class, based on guidance from independent consultants Prime Buchholz & Associates. The Foundation's asset allocation policy provides a disciplined approach to investments to ensure that funds will be available to address both immediate and future community needs.