Alexander W. Fang

Barrow, Hanley, Mewhinney & Strauss LLC, dba Barrow Hanley Global Investors (Barrow Hanley), is a registered investment advisor headquartered in Dallas, Texas. The firm was founded by Michael C. Mewhinney in 1979. They are a subsidiary of Perpetual US Holding Co., Inc., ultimately held by Perpetual Ltd. (ASX: PPT) in Australia. The firm provides investment management services to separately managed US and global equity and fixed income portfolios for large institutional clients, mutual funds, employee benefit plans, endowments, foundations, limited liability companies and other institutions and individuals. Barrow Hanley is a signatory to the United Nations' Principles for Responsible Investment (UN PRI).

TCW Asset Management Co. LLC (TCW) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Los Angeles, California. The firm was founded in 1992 and is wholly-owned by The TCW Group, Inc. In 2013, TCW management and private investment funds affiliated with The Carlyle Group (NASDAQ: CG) acquired TCW Group from Société Générale. TCW provides investment management and advice for a wide array of investment strategies for institutional and individual investors through investment advisory accounts, private open- and closed-end commingled investment funds and structured investment vehicles such as collateralized debt obligations.

Morton Capital Management LLC, dba Morton Wealth (Morton), is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor and wealth management firm headquartered in Calabasas, California. Founded in 1981, Morton provides customized investment advisory and financial planning services to individuals and families (which include retirement accounts), pension and profit-sharing plans, trusts, estates, charitable organizations, corporations and other business entities, and pooled investment vehicles.

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLC provides assurance, tax and advisory services. Its services include audit and assurance, consulting, deals, human resources, legal, tax, and family business. The firm also offers accountability, risk management, structuring, mergers and acquisitions, and performance and process improvement. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Buffalo, NY.

Inlustra Technologies LLC manufactures nonpolar and semipolar Gallium Nitride. It offers gallium nitride substrates for optoelectronic devices to laser, LED, and academic customers. The company was founded by Benjamin A. Haskell and Paul T. Fini in 2005 and headquartered in Santa Barbara, CA.

AH Capital Management LLC (Andreessen Horowitz) is a venture capital firm founded in 2009 by Marc Lowell Andreessen and Ben A. Horowitz. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

Teledyne FLIR EOC LLC manufactures and supplies electro-optical devices and sub-systems. Its products include laser illuminations, rangefinders, and pointers, focal plane arrays, and video tracker systems. The company also provides vertical-cavity laser design software solutions. FLIR EOC was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Ventura, CA.

Invoca, Inc. provides call performance marketing solutions. Its products include call intelligence suite, integration partners and cloud infrastructure. The firm offers solutions to agencies, consumers, business-to-business, search and performance marketers. Invoca was founded by Colin D. Kelley and Jason S. Spievak in 2008 and is headquartered in Santa Barbara, CA.

Western Asset Management Co. (Western Asset) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Pasadena, California. The firm was founded in 1971 and is a subsidiary of Legg Mason, Inc., which is owned by Franklin Resources, Inc. Western Asset provides discretionary investment management services to primarily institutional clients.

Local Market Launch, Inc. provides business listing management and local search optimization solutions. It offers ongoing directory monitor report, submission to local directories and claimed profiles. the firm delivers a suite of brands to navigate the local search universe with scalable and co-branded solutions for channel partners. The company was founded by Brian Coryat in 2012 and is headquartered in Santa Barbara, CA.

Santa Barbara Angel Alliance (Santa Barbara Angel Alliance) is an angel firm founded in 2016 by John Petote, Craig R Cummings, David Spaulding, Loren McFarland, Christian Felipe, Jeff Carmody and Greg Goodman. The firm is headquartered in Santa Barbara, California.

The Optical Society of America provides publications, meetings, and membership programs in optics and photonics. The private company is based in Washington. The CEO of the American company is Elizabeth Rogan.

The Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers, Inc. is a non-profit organization that owns and operates technical professional association. It provides membership and services, societies and communities support, publication services, and conferences and events. The company was founded in 1884 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

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.

Rusheen Capital Management LLC (Rusheen Capital Management) is a private equity firm founded in 2015 by Jeff Green and Jim McDermott. The firm is headquartered in Santa Monica, California.

Krossover Intelligence, Inc. provides web based video indexing platform for sports teams. The firm sells the platform as Software-as-a-Service, allowing sports teams from around the world to purchase the product as well as indexing services. The company was founded by Vasudev Kulkarni and James M. Piette III on November 26, 2008 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Pacific Investment Management Co. LLC (PIMCO) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Newport Beach, California. Founded in 1971, the firm is a subsidiary of Allianz Asset Management of America LP and their ultimate parent is Allianz SE (ETR: ALV), a German global insurance company. PIMCO provides discretionary investment management services to global client base. The firm is a socially responsible investor and signatory to the UN Principles for Responsible Investment (UNPRI) which integrates environmental, social, and governance considerations into their investment process.

City National Rochdale LLC (CNR) is the SEC-registered investment management subsidiary of CNR Holdings LLC, ultimately held by Royal Bank of Canada (NYSE, TSE: RY) in Canada. The firm was founded when Rochdale Investment Management LLC was combined with City National Asset Management, Inc. and City National Bank's investment management group, City National Asset Management. Headquartered in New York City, CNR provides portfolio management services to high net-worth individual investors as well as to registered investment companies and institutions.

Callan LLC is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in San Francisco, California. The firm was founded by Edwin Callan and Edgar Barksdale in 1973 as Callan Associates, Inc. They are wholly-owned by Callan Holdings, Inc., which is owned by the company’s employees or their trusts. Callan provides tailored advice primarily to institutional investors supported by proprietary research, database, and ongoing fiduciary education.

Quantitative Advantage LLC (QA) is an independent investment management firm headquartered in Minnetonka, Minnesota. The firm was founded by John W. Wing and Thomas G. Fox in 2000. QA provides investment advisory services to individuals, trusts, pension and profit-sharing plans, other retirement accounts, charitable organizations and corporations or other business entities, and to participants in retirement plans.

Birch Grove Capital LP (Birch Grove) is a SEC-registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded by Jonathan Berger in 2012 and is a subsidiary of AS Birch Grove, which is owned by Birch Grove Capital Holdings LP and American Securities LLC. Birch Grove provides investment advice to private pooled investment vehicles and separately managed accounts for institutional and other investors.

Elastic, Inc. develops a communication and customer management platform. The firm’s product Close.io offers software and resources to help startups outsource sales functions with an on-demand basis. The company was founded in 2012 by Steli Efti, Thomas Steinacher and Anthony Nemitz and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

Elsewhere Partners LLC (Elsewhere Partners) is a Venture Capital firm founded in 2016 by Christopher A. Pacitti and John Douglas Thornton. The firm is headquartered in Austin, Texas.

HSBC Alternative Investments Ltd. (HAIL) is the fund-of-hedge fund management subsidiary of HSBC Global Asset Management Ltd., ultimately held by HSBC Holdings Plc (LSE: HSBA; NYSE: HSBC) in Great Britain. The firm was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in London. HAIL offers a range of investment choices and services such as hedge fund, real estate and private equity solutions for both private and institutional clients. They specialize in alternative funds and funds of funds investments.

StepStone Group LP (StepStone) is a private equity firm founded in 2006 by Monte M. Brem, Tom Porter Keck and Jose A. Fernandez. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Neo Technology Acquisition Corp. operates as a blank check company. It is formed for the purpose of entering into a merger, stock exchange, asset acquisition, stock purchase, recapitalization, reorganization or similar business combination with one or more businesses or entities. The company was founded on April 1, 2021 and is headquartered on New York, NY.