Chris Crawford

Morgan Stanley Investment Management, Inc. (MSIM) is an investment management firm headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1975 and is a subsidiary of Morgan Stanley Domestic Holdings, Inc., ultimately held by Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS). MSIM provides discretionary and non-discretionary investment management services and products to institutional clients and individual investors. The firm also advises clients as to the appropriate allocation of assets among multiple separate accounts and/or investment companies or other pooled vehicles that the firm advises.

Brownstone Advisors LLC provides insurance brokerage services. The private company is based in New York, NY.

Brean Capital is an independent investment bank and registered broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1973 and provides equity research, corporate finance and advisory investment banking, equity institutional sales and trading, and asset management to institutional investors and corporate clients. Their fixed income business provides sales, trading, research and banking services on a wide range of mortgage and asset-backed, US Treasury and government agency securities, structured products, corporate bonds, and municipal debt. The fixed income sales team employs a highly analytical approach to bond selection, trade execution, and overall bond portfolio management. Under the guidance of fixed income strategists, the fixed income team uses a combination of qualitative and quantitative analyses to create custom investment portfolios and develop targeted, executable bond trading strategies to complement their clients? balance sheets.

Mizuho Securities USA LLC is the US-based securities broker/dealer and futures commission merchant arm of Mizuho Americas LLC, ultimately held by Mizuho Financial Group, Inc. (TYO: 8411, NYSE: MFG) in Japan. Headquartered in New York City, the firm was founded in 1994 and provides institutional and corporate clients access to commodity and financial markets around the world. Mizuho Securities USA covers the following industries: Consumer, Energy, Financial Institutions, Financial Sponsors, Healthcare, Industrial & Diversified Industries, Power, Utilities & Infrastructure, Real Estate, and Technology, Media & Telecom (TMT). The firm and their affiliates hold memberships on all major futures and options exchanges worldwide.

Founded in 1984, Aegis Capital Corp. is a broker-dealer located in New York City. They provide a full array of trading and execution services for their clients. They do not provide any internal research

Founded in 2008, WallachBeth Capital LLC is an SEC-registered broker/dealer located in New York City. The firm is an institutional, inter-market-broker providing non-conflicted trade execution and connectivity to the broad spectrum of professional trading market participants and an expansive menu of exchanged-traded products. They specialize in ETFs, listed equity options and index products, OTC derivatives, listed and OTC equities and non-US equities.

Founded in 1946, R.F. Lafferty & Co., Inc. is a brokerage firm and registered investment advisor located in New York City. The firm's research focuses on small- and mid-cap companies.

Auriga USA is a broker/dealer located in New York City. Their research focuses on the semiconductors, information technology and health services sectors.

Peking University provides post-secondary education services. It offers undergraduate and graduate courses. It provides courses such as basic and applied sciences, social sciences and the humanities, sciences of medicine, management, and education. The company was founded by JiaNai Sun in 1898 and is headquartered in Beijing, China.

Castlestone Management LLC is an independently owned, regulated Investment Advisory firm headquartered in Ridgewood, New Jersey. The firm was founded by Angus Murray in 2001. Castlestone Management provides advice on two UCITS funds that focus on equities.

BlackRock Advisors LLC is a SEC-registered investment advisor and mutual fund manager headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1994 and is a subsidiary of BlackRock Capital Holdings, Inc., ultimately held by BlackRock, Inc. (NYSE: BLK). BlackRock Advisors manages assets for US-registered investment companies and 529 Plans.

CAZ Investments /Private Equity/ (CAZ investments) is a private equity firm founded in 2001 by Christopher Zook. The firm is headquartered in Houston, Texas.

Salient Partners LP (Salient) is an asset management boutique headquartered in Houston, Texas. The firm was founded in 2002 by Andrew Linbeck, Jeremy Radcliffe and Haag Sherman. In 2003, the firm merged with Pinnacle Management & Trust Co. to form Salient Partners & Pinnacle Trust Co. Two years later the firm adopted the name Salient Partners LP. In 2022, they were acquired by Westwood Holdings Group, Inc. (NYSE: WHG). Salient provides real assets, tactical equity alternatives, and private solutions for institutional investors and investment advisors.

Qontigo is the US-based investment research subsidiary of Deutsche B?rse AG (ETR: DB1) in Germany. Headquartered in New York City, the firm was founded in 2019 through the combination of STOXX Ltd. and Axioma. They provide index, analytics and risk solutions for asset managers, asset owners, hedge funds, wealth managers and sell-side firms.

Part of Deutsche Börse AG, ISS STOXX GmbH is a German fast-growing financial intelligence company and a leader in the modernization of investment management. The company is based in Eschborn, Germany. Qontigo, the company's main product, offers a range of services including risk analysis tools, portfolio construction tools, and market-defining index construction. Qontigo's offerings include asset class indices, wealth management technology, factor indices, and ESG-X factor indices. Founded in 2019, the company is led by CEOs Frank Prasse, Gary Retelny, and Marc Robert-Nicoud.

iSentium LLC offers a web-based beta application that continuously ingests market-related messages and generates sentiment signals for the financial industry. The company was founded by Rob Skoczylas in 2008 and is headquartered in Montreal, Canada.

ETF Portfolio Management LLC (ETF PM) is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor and wealth management firm headquartered in Westlake Village, California. The firm was founded in 2007 by David Kreinces. ETF PM offers discretionary investment advisory services to individuals, high net-worth individuals, trusts and estates as well as to corporations, charitable organizations, and businesses.

Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC (GS&Co.) is a securities brokerage firm headquartered in New York City. Founded in 1927, the firm is a subsidiary of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE: GS). GS&Co. provides services to help hedge funds manage risk, monitor portfolios, maintain liquidity and build their businesses. They offer clients access to global equity and derivatives markets, as well as foreign exchange, commodities, European Lefts, rates and credit across the Americas, Europe and Asia. The firm proactively monitors capital markets, searching for pockets of liquidity and news that may require changes to those strategies. Integration with the Goldman Sachs network gives clients access to the firm's sectored block trades and their insights into price discovery. Their electronic trading program provides clients with tools to manage their trades from pre-trade analytics to post-trade analysis.

J. Rothschild Capital Management Ltd. (JRCML) is the wholly-owned investment management subsidiary of RIT Capital Partners plc in the UK. Established in 1987, the firm is based in London and provides investment management services.

Deutsche Bank Alex Brown, Inc. provides wealth management services. The company was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Baltimore, MD.

McKinsey & Co., Inc. provides management consulting services. It specializes in design, marketing and sales, analytics, operations, transformation and restructuring, risk, strategy and corporate finance, and sustainability and resource productivity. The company was founded by James O. McKinsey in 1926 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Founded in 1983, Fairfield Greenwich Group's (FGG) is a hedge fund manager located in New York City. They have additional offices in New York, London and Bermuda, and representative offices elsewhere in the US, Europe, Latin America and Asia and a joint venture in Singapore.

Part of Lehman Brothers Holdings, Inc., Shearson Lehman Bros., Inc. provides security broker services. The company is based in New York, NY.

The Boys' Club of New York provides child care services. It offer programs for the emotional, social, physical, educational, and vocational growth of its members. The firm owns and operates Camp Cromwell, which provides natural living in the out of doors as part of the summer and winter camp programs. The company was founded by E. H. Harriman in 1876 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Endeavor Global, Inc. is an Venture Capital firm founded in 1997 by Linda Rottenberg, Casares wenceslao and Peter B.Kellner. The firm is headquartered in New York.