David Lee Watson

Montag & Caldwell, Inc. is a registered investment advisor headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. The firm is a subsidiary of RBS Holdings NV and their ultimate parent is RFS Holdings BV. Montag & Caldwell traces their roots to 1945 when Louis A. Montag formed Atlanta's first independent investment advisory firm. In 1956, Eugene Caldwell was made a partner and the firm's name was changed to Montag & Caldwell, Inc. In 1968, Montag & Caldwell, working with Financial Services Corp., incorporated their first mutual fund, the Alpha Fund. The firm serves a wide range of individual and institutional clients through separate accounts and mutual funds. They have experience working with retirement plans, endowment funds, foundations, state and local governments, hospitals, insurance companies, credit unions and Taft-Hartley funds.

In 1915 Charles Edward Merrill founded Merrill Lynch & Co. (NYSE: MER) with Edmund C. Lynch in Baltimore, Maryland. The modern Merrill Lynch was formed in 1940 through mergers with E.A. Pierce & Cassatt and, soon after, Fenner & Beane. In 1973, Merrill Lynch adopted a holding company format, with Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. as the parent and Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith as the operating subsidiary. Merrill Lynch Asset Management, Inc. (MLAM) was created as an integral business unit in the Merrill Lynch family in 1976. Fund Asset Management, doing business as Mercury Asset Management, was acquired in December 1997. In 2000, MLAM and Mercury were combined under the name Merrill Lynch Investment Managers. MLAM manages the Merrill Lynch family of mutual funds, as and acts as sub-advisor to other mutual funds.

SunTrust Banks, Inc. is a bank and financial holding company that engages in the provision of financial services. It offers deposit, credit, mortgage banking, trust and investment, asset management, securities brokerage, and capital market services. It operates through the following segments: Consumer, Wholesale, and Corporate Other. The Consumer segment consists of consumer banking, lending, wealth management, and mortgage banking services. The Wholesale segment relates to advisory, capital raising, and financial risk management; commercial and business banking, commercial real estate; as well as treasury and payment solutions. The Corporate Other segment covers management of the company's investment securities portfolio, long-term debt, end user derivative instruments, short-term liquidity and funding activities, balance sheet risk management, and most real estate assets. The company was founded in July 12, 1984 and is headquartered in Atlanta, GA.

Montag & Caldwell LLC (M&C) is an independent, SEC-registered investment adviser headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. Founded in 1945, the firm was formerly known as Montag & Caldwell, Inc. and changed their name to Montag & Caldwell LLC after a successful employee-led buyout in 2010. M&C provides proprietary investment solutions to a wide range of institutional and individual clients through separate accounts.

Based in Atlanta, Georgia, Ridgeworth Capital Management, formerly Trusco Capital Management, Inc., provides investment management services to associations, corporations, endowments, foundations, healthcare organizations, insurance companies, labor unions and municipalities. Trusco provides services to clients world-wide and serves as the advisor to the STI Classic family of mutual funds. The firm is a subsidiary of Atlanta-based SunTrust Banks Inc. (NYSE: STI), currently has offices in Orlando, Nashville, Chattanooga, Richmond, Chapel Hill, Washington, DC and Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey.

The Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board is a regulatory organization that oversees the municipal securities market in the United States. The private company is based in Alexandria, VA. Nanette Lawson has been the CEO of the company since 2011. The board was established by Congress in 1975 to protect investors and promote a fair and efficient market for municipal securities. The board sets rules and standards for underwriters, dealers, and municipal advisors, and provides market transparency through its Electronic Municipal Market Access (EMMA) system.

Mississippi State University Foundation engages as a non-profit organization which receives, invests, and administers private support in the university. The company was founded in 1962 and is headquartered in Mississippi State, MS.

Part of Intercontinental Exchange, Inc., New York Stock Exchange is a stock exchange. The company is based in New York, NY. The CEO of the company is Susan M. DeGiulio.