Thomas D. Bradka

Franklin Bissett Investment Management (FBIM) is the Canadian investment management division of Franklin Templeton Investment Corp., an indirectly-owned subsidiary of Franklin Resources, Inc. (NYSE: BEN) in the US. Franklin Resources is a holding company that, together with its various subsidiaries, is referred to as Franklin Templeton Investments, a global investment management organization offering investment services under the Franklin, Templeton, Mutual Series, Franklin Bissett, Fiduciary Trust, Darby, Balanced Equity Management, K2, LibertyShares and Edinburgh Partners brand names. FBIM was founded in 1982 and is headquartered in Calgary, Alberta. The firm manages equity, fixed income, and balanced mutual funds for Canadian investors.

Founded in 1971, Peters & Co. Ltd. is an independent, fully integrated investment firm headquartered in Calgary, Ontario. The firm specializes in investments in the Canadian oil and natural gas and oilfield services industries. They provides investment services to institutional investors and private clients. Peters & Co. employs their own trading group and performs specialized and comprehensive investment research. They are an active underwriter for, and financial advisor to, companies active in the Canadian energy industry. Peters & Co. is a member of the CIPF.

UBS Securities Canada, Inc. is a Canadian investment bank and securities firm headquartered in Toronto, Ontario. The firm is a subsidiary of UBS Holding Canada Ltd. and their ultimate parent is UBS AG (NYSE: UBS) in US. UBS Securities Canada provides execution services for their clients' orders. They consider factors such as price, size of the order, the potential for price improvement, the speed of execution, the certainty of execution, trading characteristics of the security, and the overall cost of the transaction when costs are passed on to clients. In addition, prevailing market conditions are taken into consideration when manually handling a client order, such as the direction of the market for the security, the depth of the posted market, the last sale price and volumes of previous trades, the size of the spread, and the liquidity of the security.

Pennock Acheson Nielsen Devaney CA provides accounting services.

Part of Silver Lake Group LLC, Inquest, Inc. is a company that provides regional employment screening services. The company is based in San Jose, CA.

Shea Nerland Calnan LLP provides legal services. The private company is based in Calgary, Canada.

Law Society of British Columbia provides legal services. The firm protects the public interest in the administration of justice by setting and enforcing standards of professional conduct for lawyers. The company is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.

The Canadian Bar Association operates as a professional organization. The non-profit company is based in Ottawa, Canada. and has subsidiaries in Canada.

Association of Professional Engineers & Geoscientists of AB is a non profit organization that regulates the practices of engineering and geoscience in Alberta. Its function is licensing individuals and companies that want to practice engineering and geoscience in Alberta. The applicants and companies that meet APEGA’s standards for ethical, professional, and technical competency earn the right to practice and use reserved titles and designations. The company was founded in 1920 and is headquartered in Edmonton, Canada.

Law Society of Alberta regulates the legal profession in the public interest by promoting and enforcing a high standard of professional and ethical conduct by Alberta lawyers. The company was founded in 1907 and is headquartered in Calgary, Canada.

YL Ventures LLC (YL Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded by Yoav A.Leitersdorf,John G.Quigley in 2007.The firm is headquartered in Mill Valley,california.

Alaris Equity Partners, Inc. is an investment company, which engages in the provision of alternative financing to profitable and well-managed private businesses. The company was founded by Clayton H. Riddell and Stephen Reid on May 23, 2006 and is headquartered in Calgary, Canada.

Part of BHP Group Ltd., BHP Canada, Inc. explores for various natural resources including iron, copper, steel, oil and gas, silver, diamonds, and zinc.

Canaccord Genuity Corp. (CGC) is the broker/dealer subsidiary of Canaccord Genuity Group, Inc., (TSE: CF; OTCMKTS: CCORF) in Canada. The firm was founded in 2010 and is locally known as Financière Canaccord ltée. Headquartered in Vancouver, CGC offers corporate and institutional clients with versatile and responsive sales and execution services that range from Institutional Equities and International Equities to Electronic Trading and Fixed Income. Their sales & trading team execution capabilities encompass a wide range of products and services such as Equities, ADR’s, OTC, ETF’s, Fixed Income, Options, Preferreds, Investment Companies.

Echelon Wealth Partners, Inc. (Echelon) is a Canadian-owned and operated full-service broker-dealer headquartered in Toronto, Ontario. The firm was founded by Robert Furse and David Cusson in 2010 as Euro Pacific Canada, Inc. They are owned by 1-UP Holdings Corp., a holding company. Echelon offers superior investment advice and efficient trade execution for their institutional and retail clients. In 2023, Echelon and PI Financial Corp. (now known as Ventum Financial Corp.) have agreed to combine in a merger of equals to create an investment advisory, wealth management, and capital markets firm.

Blu Venture Investors LLC (Blu Venture Investors) is a venture capital firm founded in 2010 by Jim Hunt, Robert Proctor, Kevin Hollins and JS Gamble. The firm is headquartered in Vienna, Virginia.

DTx Pharma, Inc. engages in the provision of biotechnology solutions. It focuses on the utilization of fatty acids to enable the delivery of RNA therapeutics to tissues and organ systems beyond the liver. The company was founded by Arthur T. Suckow, John Grundy, and Adam Pavlicek in August 2017 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

TrackOFF, Inc. provides software solutions to protect customers from hackers, trackers, and identity thieves online. The firm shields customers digital fingerprint from known tracking techniques, regularly clears customers browsing history, and encrypts customers Internet traffic. Its products include TrackOFF Elite and TrackOFF Standard. The company was founded by Chandler Givens and Ryan Flach and is headquartered in Baltimore, MD.

Attila Security, Inc. operates as IT security firm offering secure mobile communications solutions. It offers secure data at the edge products. The firm also provides supply chain compromise, surveillance camera backdoors and gosilent whitepaper services. Attila Security was founded by Gregg Simth and Vesh Bhatt and is headquartered in Fulton, MD.

Greynoise Intelligence, Inc. operates as a cyber security company. It analyses Internet background noise and removes pointless security alerts, find compromised devices and identify emerging threats. The company was founded by Andrew Morris in November 2017 and is headquartered in Washington, DC.

Locana, Inc. engages in the provision of ribonucleic acid targeting gene therapy. Its platform technology addresses a wide spectrum of human genetic diseases. It has advanced a powerful modular RNA targeting-effector approach to optimize and advance therapeutic candidates that is distinct from DNA-targeted approaches and nucleic acid-based RNA targeting. The company was founded by Gene Yeo and David Nelles in 2016 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Entrec Cranes & Heavy Haul, Inc. engages in the provision of crane and specialized transportation solutions. The firm offers equipment including boom and picker trucks, terrain cranes, truck cranes, conventional and telescopic crawler cranes, and carry deck cranes. It serves the oil sands, liquefied natural gas, conventional oil and gas, mining, petrochemical, pulp and paper, infrastructure, refining, and power generation industries. The company was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in Dickinson, ND.

Carbon Capture America, Inc. provides energy related services. The company is headquartered in Arvada, CO.

Gradient MSP, Inc. provides solutions for MSP businesses to increase operational efficiency and grow their business. The company is based in Calgary, Canada. The Canadian company's focus is on helping MSPs bill faster, more accurately, and with less frustration. Gradient MSP relies on the advice of trusted members of the VAC to guide their integration roadmap. The company aims to create solutions that make the lives of MSPs easier. The company was founded in 2020 by Colin Knox, Ryan Barker, Mike Urquhart. Colin Knox has been the CEO since 2020.