Rohit Thapliyal

Academy Securities, Inc. is a military veteran and disabled veteran owned and operated investment bank and broker-dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 2009 by former US Naval Officer Chance Mims. It specializes in Equity & Debt Capital Markets, Public Finance, Investment Banking, and Institutional Agency Trading: Equity and Fixed Income. Academy Securities offers research sales and sales trading agency execution services to institutional clients including corporations, mutual funds, hedge funds, endowments, foundations, state agencies, registered investment advisors and pension funds. They maintain equity & fixed income trading desks in New York, Chicago, San Diego, and Chapel Hill.

Citigroup Global Markets, Inc. (Broker) (CGMI-Broker) is the broker/dealer division of Citigroup Global Markets, Inc., an investment bank headquartered in New York City with additional offices across the US. The firm was founded in 2004 and is a subsidiary of Citigroup Financial Products, Inc., ultimately held by Citigroup, Inc. (NYSE: C). CGMI-Broker covers all market capitalizations of the major global indices and provides macro and quantitative analysis of global markets and sector trends. Their core focus of the group is to help investing clients make informed decisions by providing value-added, independent, insightful analysis.

SPL WorldGroup, Inc. develops customer and billing management software. It offers solutions in customer care & billing, enterprise asset & work management, mobile workforce management, outage & distribution management and enterprise business intelligence. The company provides implementation services such as scoping, sales handover, initiation, analysis, assembly, acceptance and rollout. SPL WorldGroup was founded in 1968 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Burntsand, Inc. provides consulting and technology services. It offers information processing and information management requirements in three practice areas such as enterprise content management, collaboration, and service management. The company was founded by Jim Yeates and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.

K-Micro, Inc. operates as an IT consulting company. It provides cloud, infrastructure and managed services to enterprise organizations. Its IT consulting services include Office 365 migration and deployment, collaboration and productivity, consolidation, data protection and recovery, desktop optimization, identity and access, messaging, mission critical systems, mobility and remote access, networking, security, and unified communications. The firm also provides managed IT services, such as outsourcing, network management, desktop lifecycle support, server support, systems administration and staff augmentation. The company was founded in 1983 by Ahmad Gramian and Michael Sabourian and is headquartered in Santa Monica, CA.