Sarah Lokitis

T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc. (Price Associates) is a registered investment advisor and mutual fund manager headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland. The firm was founded by Thomas Rowe Price, Jr. in 1937. They are a subsidiary of the T. Rowe Price Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: TROW), which was formed in 2000 as the publicly traded parent holding company of Price Associates and their affiliated entities. Price Associates offers a variety of mutual funds, sub-advisory services and separate account management for individual and institutional investors, retirement plans and financial intermediaries.

CAN Capital, Inc. provides working capital and data services. The firm offers capital to businesses through its subsidiaries that include Merchant Cash Advances by CAN Capital Merchant Services, Inc. and business loans through CAN Capital Asset Servicing, Inc. The company was founded by Gary A. Johnson and Barbara Johnson in 1998 and is headquartered in Kennesaw, GA.

Part of BlackRock, Inc., BlackRock Investments LLC is a brokerage services provider. The company is based in New York, NY. The company was founded in 1994. Abigail Tate Reynolds has been the CEO of the company since 2006.

First Long Island Investors LLC (FLII) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Jericho, New York. The firm was founded in 1983 by Ralph Palleschi and Robert Rosenthal. They are a subsidiary of First Long Island Investor Holdings, Inc. FLII provides a broad range of investment and financial services to individuals, corporations, pension and profit-sharing plans, pooled investment vehicles, and charitable organizations.

Part of Equitable Holdings, Inc., AllianceBernstein Investment Research & Management, Inc. is a company that provides investment management services. The company is based in New York, NY.

WMS Partners LLC (WMS) is a SEC-registered investment advisor and wealth management firm headquartered in Towson, Maryland. The firm was founded by Timothy Chase, David Citron and Martin Eby in 1993 as Wealth Management Services. They are a subsidiary of WMS Partners Holdings LLC. WMS offers investment advisory services on either a discretionary or non-discretionary basis to clients who include individuals, business entities, pension and profit-sharing plans, trusts, estates and charitable organizations.

Part of Morgan Stanley, Morgan Stanley Private Equity Asia III LLC is a private equity fund. The company is based in New York, NY.

Stifel, Nicolaus & Co., Inc. (Stifel) is a dual-registered broker-dealer and investment adviser headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri. Founded in 1890, the firm is a subsidiary of Stifel Financial Corp. (NYSE: SF), a financial service holding company. Stifel provides full-service brokerage and investment advisory services to individuals and their families, institutions and businesses, and financial advisors.

Hamilton Lane Advisors LLC (Hamilton Lane) is a private equity firm founded in May 1991. The firm is headquartered in Pennsylvania with additional offices located in London, Hong Kong, Rio de Janeiro, San Francisco, San Diego, New York, Ft. Lauderdale, Tel Aviv, Tokyo, Las Vegas and Seoul.

Moody's Investors Service, Inc. is a credit rating and investment research firm headquartered in New York City. They are a subsidiary of Moody's Corp. (NYSE: MCO). The firm performs international financial research and analysis on commercial and government entities and provides a variety of analytic tools for assessing credit risk. Their clients include creditors, investment banks and commercial banks.

Founded in 1999 by the late Thomas Watson, Janney Montgomery Scott LLC (JMS) is a full-service financial services firm and registered broker/dealer headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The firm is a subsidiary of Independence Square Properties LLC, itself a subsidiary of Penn Mutual Insurance Co. Their ultimate parent is Harleysville Mutual Insurance Co. JMS is a member of the NYSE, the SIPC and FINRA. The firm provides comprehensive financial advice and services to individual, corporate and institutional investors. Their primary coverage verticals include the consumer, technology, financials and infrastructure sectors.

HighTower Advisors LLC (HighTower) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Chicago, Illinois and has offices throughout the US. The firm was founded in 2008 by Elliot Weissbluth, Peter (Todd) Lyon, and Eugene Lerner. They are a wholly owned subsidiary of Hightower Holding LLC. HighTower provides investment advisory services to institutions (which include ERISA), and ultra-high and high net worth individuals.

Blue Delta Capital Partners LLC (Blue Delta Capital Prtnrs) is a private equity firm founded in 2009 by Mark A Frantz and Kevin Robbins. The firm is headquartered in McLean, Virginia.

SKY Harbor Capital Management LLC (SKY Harbor) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Greenwich, Connecticut. The firm was co-founded by Hannah Strasser and Anne Yobage in 2011. They are a subsidiary of SKY Harbor Capital Holdings LLC, ultimately owned by ECN Kessler Holdco LLC. SKY Harbor exclusively focused on the management of portfolios and funds of high yield bonds and leveraged loans for global institutional investors and private wealth advisors. SKY Harbor is a signatory of the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) and a participant in the UN Global Compact.

Grotech Management Co (Grotech Management) is a venture capital firm founded in 1984 by Frank A. Adams. The firm is headquartered in Owings Mills, Maryland.

Cresset PKP LLC is a wealth management firm headquartered in Reston, Virginia. Formerly known as PagnatoKarp Partners LLC, the firm was founded by Paul Pagnato Jr. and David Karp in 2016. They were acquierd in 2020 by Cresset Asset Management LLC, which is ultimately owned by Cresset Capital Management LLC. Cresset PKP provides investment advisory, family office, and other services to individuals, families, and institutional clients.

KPMG International Cooperative focuses on the promotion of the economic interests of its members. It engages in the protection, promotion, improvement, and expansion of the KPMG Group. The company was founded on February 8, 1988 and is headquartered in Zug, Switzerland.

Founded in 1992 by Joseph DuCote and Frank Soriano, Sutter Securities, Inc. is a FINRA-registered broker/dealer located in San Francisco. The firm underwrites, trades and sells fixed-income and equity products. Their trading desk also engages in agency transactions in U.S. Government and agency obligations, municipal bonds, corporate bonds, MBS, ABS, listed and over-the-counter stocks, and domestic and foreign CDs and commercial paper. The firm serves domestic and international institutional clients, including bond and mutual funds, insurance companies, corporations, banks, retirement funds and investment advisors. Sutter Securities provides a full array of trading and execution services for their clients. They do not provide any internal research.

Brightstar Capital Partners LP (Brightstar Capital) is a private equity firm founded in 2015 by Andrew S. Weinberg. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Part of Marsh & McLennan Cos., Inc., Pavilion Alternatives Group LLC is an alternative investment manager. The company is based in El Dorado Hills, CA. Pavilion Alternatives Group was founded in 2001.

MPNYC Management LLC (MetaProp Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2015 by Zach Aarons, Aaron Block and Clelia Warburg Peters. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Greenspring Associates Inc is a venture capital subsidiary of StepStone Group, Inc. founded in 2000 by C. Ashton Newhall. The firm is headquartered in Owings Mills, Maryland.

Sterling Fund Management LLC (Sterling Partners) is a Private Equity firm founded in 1983 by Eric Becker, Michael Bronfein, Shoshana M. Vernick, Jeff Elburn. The firm is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

Latham & Watkins LLP operates as a full-service law firm or legal matters. It offers services in the areas of finance, litigation, accounting, banking, life sciences, private equity, real estate, government relations, employment law, and outsourcing. The company was founded in 1934 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Social Starts LLC (Social Starts) is a Venture Capital firm is founded in 2012. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, New York.

Joyance Partners is a venture capital firm founded in 2017. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.