Bruce W. Berkman

Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. engages in the provision of insurance, annuities, and employee benefits programs. It operates through the US, and MetLife Holdings segments. The company is headquartered in New York, NY.

Cooke & Bieler LP is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1949, the firm provides portfolio management services to corporate pension and profit-sharing plans, Taft-Hartley plans, charitable institutions, foundations, endowments, high net worth and other individuals, registered mutual funds, pooled investment vehicles, corporations or other business entities, municipalities, and insurance companies, among others.

Saugatuck Capital Co. (Saugatuck Capital) is a private equity firm founded in 1982 by Frank Hawley. The firm is headquartered in Shelton, Connecticut.

JPMorgan Securities LLC (JPMS) is a securities brokerage firm headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1985 and is a subsidiary of JPMorgan Broker-Dealer Holdings, Inc., ultimately held by JPMorgan Chase & Co., Inc. (NYSE: JPM). JPMS provides research on fixed income, credit, derivatives, emerging markets, foreign exchange, structured finance, technical analysis and bond indices. Their equity analysts cover equities throughout North America, EMEA, Asia/Pacific and the emerging markets. The firm's fixed income team formulates trading and portfolio recommendations for investors in global bonds and other fixed-income markets based on valuations, analytics and market dynamics.

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.

MD SolarSciences Corp. manufactures and distributes skin care products. Its products include sunscreens, anti-aging moisturizer, eye repair emulsion and facial repair serum. The firm sells its products through stores and online. The company was founded by Robert J. Friedman and Bruce A. Deitchman in 2007 and is headquartered in Stamford, CT.

Founded in 1889, The Bryn Mawr Trust Co. is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Bryn Mawr Bank Corp. (NASDAQ: BMTC), a publicly-held, one-bank holding company. The firm is located in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania.

Goulston & Storrs PC provides legal services. It offers banking and finance, bankruptcy and restructuring, capital markets, litigation, data privacy, hospitality and recreational, innovation development and licensing, real estate, and public law and partnership solutions. The company was founded in 1900 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

RLJ Credit Management LLC (RLJ Credit Management) is a private debt/equity division of RLJ Cos. founded in 2011 by Trevoir D. Gregg and Robert L. Johnson. The firm is headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland.

Episcopal Community Services has continued to meet the changing needs of the Philadelphia community for nearly 140 years. Its mission is to empower vulnerable individuals and families by providing high-quality social and educational services that affirm human dignity and promote social justice. ECS services help people of all faiths improve their own lives and gain the skills they need to be self-sufficient. Current programs include: Foster care for abused and neglected children Home care services for frail elderly persons Shelter for homeless women and their children After-school youth development programs and teen workshops on Saturdays Permanent housing for homeless families Adult literacy and GED classes ECS offers an array of human service programs for vulnerable individuals and families of all faiths. The ECS approach is strength-based and client-centered. In the coming year, ECS programs will serve more than 2,000 children, youth and adults. Funding is provided by government contracts, foundation grants and support of parishes and individuals. ECS is blessed to have an endowment built by generations of Episcopalians, the income of which covers overhead costs, so 100% of every contributed dollar goes directly to services. A gift to ECS is your faith in action. Episcopal Community Services is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, contributions to which are tax-deductable to the fullest extent permitted by law.

Abacus Finance Group LLC (Abacus Finance) is a private equity firm founded in 2011 by Tim Clifford and Sean McKeever. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Allianz Global Investors U.S. LLC (AllianzGI US) is an investment advisory firm headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 2001 as Allianz Global Investors Capital LLC. In 2022, Voya Investment Management Co. LLC, which is ultimately owned by Voya Financial, Inc. (NYSE: VOYA), acquired the firm from Allianz SE (ETR: ALV). AllianzGI US provides portfolio management services to a variety of individual and institutional clients as well as certain Wrap Fee Programs.

Bank of America, NA (Private Banking) (Bank of America-PB) is the private banking arm of Bank of America, NA, which is a subsidiary of Bank of America Corp. (NYSE: BAC). Headquartered in New York City, the firm was founded in 1947 and is also known as US Trust, Bank of America Private Wealth Management. Bank of America-PB provides comprehensive wealth management products and services that focuses on wealth structuring (wealth planning, trusts and estates, philanthropy, custody services), investment management (portfolio consulting, asset management, capital markets, specialty asset management) and credit and banking (financial management tools, liquidity services, custom credit, real estate finance) for high net-worth and ultra-high net-worth individuals and families.

Columbia Management Investment Advisers LLC (CMIA) is a SEC-registered investment advisor and mutual fund manager headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. The firm is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Ameriprise Financial, Inc. (NYSE: AMP). The firm was formed in 2010 due to Ameriprise Financial Services' (AFS) acquisition of the long-term asset management business of Columbia Management Group (CMG) from Bank of America. AFS merged CMG's long-term asset management business with their subsidiary, RiverSource Investments LLC, under the name Columbia Management Investment Advisors. CMIA offers equity and fixed-income retail and institutional investment products for various types of clients.

Capital7 LLC (Capital7) is a private equity subsidiary of Arcady Capital Co. LLC founded in 2019 by Basil Adeeb Hourani. The firm is headquartered in Whichita, Kansas.