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Raymond James & Associates, Inc. (RJA) is a registered broker-dealer headquartered in St. Petersburg, Florida. The firm was founded in 1962 and is a subsidiary of Raymond James Financial, Inc. (NYSE: RJF), a diversified holding company. RJA offers a full array of capital markets services, strategic advice and planning for institutional investors.

A subsidiary of Mesirow Financial Holdings, Inc., Mesirow Financial, Inc. is a broker/dealer headquartered in Chicago with an additional office in New York City. The firm provides a full array of trading and execution services for their clients. They do not provide any internal research. Mesirow was founded in 1937 by Norman Mesirow.

mFoundry, Inc. provides mobile financial services. Its mobile banking and mobile payments solutions are based upon a market-proven platform that was designed to help their clients create deeper, more valuable relationships with their customers. The company was founded by Rodney Aiglstorfer in 2004 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

RedPoint Global, Inc. provides data management and digital marketing software services. The firm offers a comprehensive set of world-class ETL, data quality and data integration applications that operate in and across both traditional and Hadoop 2.0/YARN environments. It also offers data-driven customer engagement solutions that help companies derive insights from customer behaviors and create consistent, relevant and precise messaging across any and all channels required. The company was founded by Dale H. Renner, George Corugedo and Lewis Clemmens in 2006 and is headquartered in Wellesley Hills, MA.

The Carlyle Group LP (Global Private Equity) is a private equity firm founded in the year 1990 by William E. Conway, Jr. and Daniel A. D'Aniello. The firm is headquartered in Washington DC.

Jefferies LLC is a global investment bank and institutional securities firm headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1962 and is a subsidiary of Jefferies Group LLC, ultimately held by Jefferies Financial Group, Inc. (NYSE: JEF). Jefferies provides corporate clients with research and execution services in equity, fixed income, and foreign exchange markets, as well as a full range of investment banking services such as underwriting, mergers and acquisitions, restructuring and recapitalization, and other advisory services, with all businesses operating in the Americas, Europe and Asia.

abrdn, Inc. is SEC-registered investment advisor and mutual fund manager headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1995, the firm was formerly known as Aberdeen Asset Management, Inc. and as Aberdeen Standard Investments, Inc. until it became abrdn, Inc. in 2022. They are a subsidiary of abrdn Holdings Ltd., ultimately held by abrdn Plc (LON: ABDN) in Great Britain. abrdn provides investment products and solutions to various clients across the world.

GTCR LLC (GTCR) is a private equity firm founded in 1980 by Charlie Thomas. The firm is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

Hammond Kennedy Whitney & Co., Inc. (HKW) is an independent private equity firm founded in 1903. The firm is headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana.

The Boston Consulting Group, Inc. engages in the provision of management consulting services. It specializes in automotive and mobility; biopharmaceuticals; consumer products; education; oil and gas; power and utilities; engineered products and infrastructure; financial institutions; and health care payers, providers, and services. It offers big data and advanced analytics; change management; client learning and enablement; and corporate development and financial services. The company was founded by Bruce Doolin Henderson in 1963 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Northwestern University is a private institution founded in 1851 to serve the Northwest Territory, an area that now includes the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and parts of Minnesota. Northwestern has three campuses

Crowe LLP provides accounting services. The firm offers audit, tax, advisory, risk, and performance services. It serves banking, manufacturing, media and telecommunication, construction, real estate, financial, food, commodities and healthcare industries. The company was founded by Fred P. Crowe Sr. and Cletus F. Chizek in 1942 and is headquartered in South Bend, IN.

Credit Capital Investments LLC is an investment manager and advisor that provides independent and timely fixed income, equity, economic, and quantitative research. The private company is based in Short Hills, NJ, and was founded in 2003. CCI manages separate accounts and is an advisor to the Teak Hill Fund and the Teak Hill Indus Fund. Varkki P. Chacko has been the CEO of the American company since 2006.

SIH ACA Topco LP is a governance, risk, and compliance advisor in financial services. SIH ACA Topco is based in New York, NY and has subsidiaries in the United States. The company empowers clients to reimagine GRC and protect and grow their business by integrating advisory, managed services, and distribution solutions with their ComplianceAlpha® regulatory technology platform. The company has a team of former regulators and practitioners with a deep understanding of the regulatory landscape. The company was founded in 2002, and Patrick Michael Olson has been the CEO of the company since 2023.

TELUS Global Ventures (TELUS Global Ventures) is a venture capital operating division of TELUS Corp. (TSX: T) founded in 2001 by Mathew George. The firm is headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH is a company based in Bonn, Germany. The German company specializes in international cooperation for sustainable development and operates as a government-owned corporation. The company offers a platform called Triple Win, which helps qualified nursing staff from abroad find employment in Germany. The company is ultimately controlled by the Government of Germany. The company was founded in 1963. Tanja Gönner has been the CEO of the company since 2012.

Fatima Gobi Ventures (Fatima Gobi Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2019 by Ali Mukhtar. The firm is headquartered in Lahore, Pakistan.

Blackpoint Holdings LLC develops and operates software applications for mapping. Its capabilities include live asset visibility, multi-point threat detection, automated hunt, privileged insider threat visibility, realtime threat response and risk & compliance reporting. The company was founded by Jonathan S. Murchison and is headquartered in Ellicott City, MD.

Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. is a FINRA-registered broker/dealer headquartered in San Francisco. The firm is a subsidiary of the Charles Schwab Corp. (NYSE: SCHW). They are members of the Chicago Board Options Exchange, NASDAQ and NYSE Arca, Inc. Charles Schwab & Co. is an exchange member engaged in exchange commission business other than floor activities. They also retail mutual funds and OTC corporate equity securities. In addition, the firm underwrites and/or sells corporate securities, underwrites and/or sponsors mutual funds, is a put and call broker/dealer and/or option writer and provides investment advisory services

Optas, Inc. provides online marketing services. The company designs and develops software to monitor and manage marketing campaigns and analyze customer responses to different marketing campaigns. It also provides strategy consulting, training and data mining services. The company was founded in 1997 by Stephen Smith and Paul Buta and is headquartered in Woburn, MA.

Pilot Software, Inc. develops web-enabled decision support and business intelligence software. The company was founded on August 13, 2002 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.