Nicholas Cafferillo

Institutional Shareholder Services, Inc. (ISS) is an investment research firm headquartered in Rockville, Maryland. The firm was founded in 1985 and is owned by Viss Intermediate LLC, which is ultimately held by Deutsche Börse AG (ETR: DB1) in Germany. ISS provides corporate governance and responsible investment solutions globally to other investment advisers, including investment advisers to investment companies, pension and profit-sharing plans, broker-dealers, asset owners, asset managers, banks or thrift institutions, hedge funds, trusts, estates, charitable organizations and other institutional investors, as well as law firms, and universities. The firm also provides data to third parties for use in thematic based indices. Their solutions include objective governance research and recommendations; responsible investment data, analytics, and research; end-to-end proxy voting and distribution solutions; turnkey securities class-action claims management provided by Securities Class Action Services, LLC (ISS SCAS); reliable global governance data and modeling tools; asset management intelligence, portfolio execution and monitoring, fund services, and media.

SNL Financial LC provides financial and industry data, research, news and analytics to investment professionals, government agencies and corporations. Its products include SNL unlimited, news, SNLbanker, performance graph, support and training and SNL knowledge center. The firm provides news, financial data and analysis on business sectors, which includes, banking, insurance, financial services, real estate, energy and media and communications. SNL Financial was founded by Reid Nagle and Jessica Nagle in 1987 and is headquartered in Charlottesville, VA.