Rodney Hathaway

1492 Capital Management LLC (1492CM) is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The firm was founded by Joseph “Joe” Frohna in 2008. 1492CM provides discretionary asset management services to individuals, corporations, foundations, trusts, and other separate accounts using one of the firm’s small-cap equity investment strategy models.

Heartland Advisors, Inc. is a mutual fund manager and SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The firm's predecessor was founded in 1983 as an investment advisory subsidiary of a regional brokerage firm, The Milwaukee Co., owned in part by William J. Nasgovitz. In 1984, Mr. Nasgovitz purchased a majority interest in the investment advisory subsidiary from his partners and started managing Heartland's first mutual fund, the Heartland Value Fund. In 1988, Mr. Nasgovitz and his partners sold The Milwaukee Co. to Dain Bosworth. In the same transaction, Mr. Nasgovitz acquired the remaining shares of the investment advisory subsidiary and changed its name to Heartland Advisors, Inc. In 2000, the firm was reorganized into a wholly owned subsidiary of Heartland Holdings, Inc., but it remains a 100% employee-owned independent firm. Heartland Advisors provides investment advice to individual and institutional clients.

Founded in 1992, Banc One Investment Advisors (BOIA) is a multi-style money manager delivering individually managed portfolios and mutual funds to a broad spectrum of institutional and individual clients. BOIA an indirect subsidiary of Bank One Corporation (NYSE: ONE).

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.

Founded by D. Rodney Hathaway and Terence Pavlic, Hathaway-Nguyen Capital Management, Inc. is a hedge fund company located in Delafield, Wisconsin. They have a second investment team in Ho Chih Minh City, Vietnam.