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Fidelity Management & Research Co. (FMR) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. The firm was founded in 1946 and is a subsidiary of FMR LLC, also known as Fidelity Investments. FMR provides investment supervisory services, which include sub-advisory services, to Fidelity's family of mutual funds and exchange-traded funds, qualified tuition programs, privately offered unregistered investment funds, separately managed account clients, and various other institutional accounts.

State Street Bank & Trust Co. (SSBT) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. The firm was founded in 1792 and is owned by State Street Corp. (NYSE: STT). SSBT serves as the administrator, fund accountant and transfer agent for the WisdomTree Bitcoin Fund, an exchange-traded fund.

Wellington Management Co. LLP (WMC) is a registered investment advisor and mutual fund manager headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. The firm was founded in 1928 and is a subsidiary of Wellington Investment Advisors Holdings LLP, ultimately held by Wellington Management Group LLP. WMC offers investment management services for a fee to separate account clients and mutual funds sponsored by unaffiliated parties, as well as to investment vehicles that the firm sponsors.

Manulife Investment Management (US) LLC (Manulife IM (US)) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. The firm was founded in 1968 and is a subsidiary of John Hancock Subsidiaries LLC, ultimately held by Manulife Financial Corp. (NYSE, TSX: MFC), a Canadian-based financial services firm. Manulife IM-US manages assets for a variety of institutional and other types of clients, such as public and private pension funds, foundations, mandatory provident funds outside the US, financial institutions, investment trusts, separately managed account clients, and high net-worth individuals. The firm also manages registered funds, which includes UCITS, US and Canadian open- and closed-end mutual funds and privately offered unregistered investment funds.

Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP provides legal services. It offers services in the areas of private equity, technology, intellectual property, mergers & acquisitions, commercial litigation, and insurance & reinsurance litigation. The company was founded in 1899 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Ernst & Young LLP engages in the provision of accounting, assurance, tax, transaction, and advisory services. It specializes in the actuarial, analytics and big data, cyber security, accounting compliance and reporting, center for board matters, international financial reporting standards, country tax advisory, global trade, tax accounting, and climate change and sustainability. The company was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

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.

PT Sarana Steel Corp. engages in cutting, rewinding, and supplying steel coil materials. The private company is based in Jakarta, Indonesia. Ibnu Susanto has been the CEO of the Indonesian company since 1973.

SSgA Funds Management, Inc. (SSgA FM) is a SEC-registered investment advisor and mutual fund manager headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. The firm was founded in 1978 and is a subsidiary of State Street Global Advisors, Inc., ultimately held by State Street Corp. (NYSE: STT). SSgA FM provides investment advisory services to US investment companies and certain pooled investment vehicles.

Fitch Ratings, Inc. is a global rating agency and investment research firm headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded by John Knowles in 1913 as Fitch Publishing Co. They are a subsidiary of Fitch Group, Inc., ultimately owned by The Hearst Family Trust. Fitch Ratings seeks to provide independent and prospective credit opinions, research and data to the world's credit markets. Their approach is based on a foundation of local market experience that covers capital markets in over 150 countries. The firm's ratings analysis and rating decisions are based on established criteria, methodologies and ratings definitions which they apply in a consistent manner. Fitch Ratings provides coverage of the following markets: Economics, Banks, Insurance, Sovereigns, Corporates, Structured Finance, Public Finance – International, Public Finance – US, Infrastructure & Project, and Finance.

Founded in 1898, Northeastern University is a private research university located in the heart of Boston. Northeastern teaches worldwide experiential learning, urban engagement, and interdisciplinary research that meets global and societal needs. The University offers a range of undergraduate and graduate programs leading to degrees through the doctorate in nine colleges and schools.

Part of Exxon Mobil Corp., Caspian Pipeline Consortium CJSC is a Russian company that produces and transports oil. The company is based in Novorossiisk, Russian Federation. Nikolai G. Brunich has been the CEO of the company since 2013.

WBUR Boston operates a publication house both online and offline.

National Maritime Shipping Co., also known as nmsk kazmotransflot llp (kmtf), is a national sea carrier based in Kazakhstan. The Kazakhstani company is recognized as a national sea carrier by the government of Kazakhstan.

QazaqGaz National Co. JSC distributes and transports natural gas. It engages in the external and internal gas transportation, international transit, and purchase and sale of natural gas to consumers. The company was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Astana, Kazakhstan.

Isomer Capital LLP (Isomer Capital) is an Independent Venture Capital firm founded in 2015 by Christopher John Charles Wade. The firm is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Cambridge Associates LLC is a privately-held, SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. The firm was founded in 1973 by James Bailey and Henry Lewis. Cambridge Associates provides investment management and advisory services to colleges and universities, foundations and other non-profit institutions. They also act as an investment adviser to private clients, family offices, corporations, healthcare institutions, insurance groups, pension plans and ERISA pools and public and government-related groups.

Pomona Management Co., Inc. (Pomona Capital) is a private equity subsidiary of Voya Pomona Holdings LLC founded in 1994 by Michael D. Granoff. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Accenture LLP provides management consulting, technology, and outsourcing services. Its services encompass customer relationship, finance, human resources, service, supply chain, information management, business process, and infrastructure outsourcing services. The company was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Penn Schoen Berland (PSB), a member of Young & Rubicam Brands and of the WPP Group, is a global research-based consultancy that specializes in messaging and communications strategy for blue-chip political, corporate and entertainment clients. Founded in 1975, they bring together lessons from the campaign trail and the boardroom to create innovative strategies to handle complex situations. Their powerful hybrid model combines both political and corporate research, recognizing that the strategies used to effect change in one area can be innovative and effective in the other. They call this Winning Knowledge. In the political arena, PSB has thirty years of experience winning competitive elections. They’ve won nearly three quarters of the races they’ve run, and have worked as pollster and strategic advisor to candidates including President Bill Clinton, New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg and UK Prime Minister Tony Blair. Their innovative and successful political work led Time Magazine to dub them “Masters of the Message.” In the corporate sector, PSB is a strategic research provider to more than 30 of the Fortune 100 companies, including many of the leading consumer and business brands. They help these organizations implement proactive, research-driven and integrated communications efforts like the ones that win political campaigns. In the entertainment world, PSB is a leading provider of cover testing research to leading magazine publishers, motion picture research for major Hollywood studios, and video game research to top game publishers. Their proprietary visual testing capabilities help clients assess and fundamentally enhance the power of their execution. Their operations include over 200 consultants and a sophisticated in-house market research infrastructure with the capability to conduct work in over 90 countries. Their offices in Washington, D.C., New York, , London, Seattle, Hong Kong, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Dubai, Beijing, Austin and Denver are supported by an in-house fielding capability and are fully equipped to provide the complete creative solutions their clients need.

The American Marketing Association operates professional associations for marketers. The company offers services to marketing professionals including best practices and research studies, job resources, publications and directories. Its publications include flagship semi-monthly magazine Marketing News, as well as journal of marketing, journal of public policy and marketing and a variety of newsletters. The company was founded in 1931 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Benenson Strategy Group LLC is a strategic research consultancy. Its services include brand battles, communication and messaging optimization, policies and regulations engagement, corporate reputation and trust, issue and crisis management, mergers and acquisition, market entry strategy, KPI tracking, customer journey mapping, and international politics. The company was founded by Joel Benenson and Carl Rossow in 2000 and is headquartered in New York, NY.