Douglas P. Schwartz

Truist Securities, Inc. is a registered broker-dealer headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. The firm was founded in 1894 as SunTrust Robinson Humphrey, Inc. In 2020, the firm was renamed following the integration of SunTrust Robinson Humphrey and BB&T Capital Markets. The firm is a subsidiary of Truist Financial Corp. (NYSE: TFC) and is an active market maker in equity and fixed-income products. Truist Securities delivers a comprehensive range of strategic advisory, capital raising, risk management, and financing solutions, as well as a dynamic suite of sales, trading, and research services in both fixed-income and equity. Their strategies are carefully tailored to meet the needs and vision of their clients.

A subsidiary of Croft & Bender LLC, Croft & Bender Securities is a broker/dealer and a member of the NASD and the SIPC. Headquartered in Atlanta, the firm is a provider of investment banking services focused on small- and mid-sized growth companies. They provide mergers and acquisitions, private equity and financial advisory services. The firm was founded in 1996

Stadion Money Management LLC (Stadion) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Watkinsville, Georgia. The firm was founded by Timothy A. Chapman in 1993 as Personal Mutual Fund Management, Inc. They became a subsidiary of Smart USA Co. in 2022. Stadion provides custom solutions to retirement plan advisors, plan sponsors and participants.

Dubin Clark & Co., Inc. (Dubin Clark) is a private equity firm founded in 1984 by Ron N. Dubin and Tom Clark. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Trian Fund Management LP, dba Trian Partners (Trian), is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 2005 by Founding Partners, Nelson Peltz and Peter May. Trian provides discretionary investment advisory services to a variety of domestic and offshore private investment partnerships and other investment vehicles.

Argonne Capital Group LLC (Argonne Capital Group) is a private equity firm founded in 2003 by Michael A. Klump. The firm is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.

BMO Capital Markets Corp. (Broker) is the broker/dealer division of BMO Capital Markets Corp., a full-service North American financial services provider headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1998 and is a subsidiary of BMO Financial Corp., which is owned by Bank of Montreal (NYSE, TSX: BMO) in Canada. BMO Capital Markets offers corporate, institutional and government clients access to a variety of products and services including equity and debt underwriting, corporate lending and project financing, merger and acquisitions advisory services, merchant banking, securitization, treasury and market risk management, debt and equity research and institutional sales and trading.

C&B capital (C&B capital) is a private equity and venture capital firm founded in 1996 by Edward Stockton Croft and Theodore J. Bender. The firm is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.

Source Capital LLC (Source Capital) is a private equity firm founded in 2002 by Thomas S. Harbin and Katherine Harbin Clammer. The firm is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.

M&M Refrigeration LLC designs, manufactures and supplies industrial refrigeration equipment and controls. It offers equipment resources, CO2 cascade resources, ammonia resources, and controls resources. The company was founded by Duffy McConnell in 1969 and is headquartered in Federalsburg, MD.

NorthEdge Capital LLP (NorthEdge Capital) is a private equity firm founded in 2009 by Andy Ball, Grant Berry & Dan Wright. The firm is headquartered in Manchester, United Kingdom.

Business Booster SGEIC SA (Draper B1) is a venture capital firm founded in 2010. The firm is Headquartered in Valencia, Spain.

Domain Timber Advisors LLC(Domain Timber Advisors), a timberland investment division of Domain capital Advisors. The company is headquartered in Atlanta, GA.

Stridebio, Inc. focuses on creating and developing novel adeno-associated viral vector technologies. The company was founded by Aravind Asokan, Mavis Agbandje-McKenna and Patrick Ritschel and is headquartered in Durham, NC.

Access Ventures, Inc (Access Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2014 by Bryce Butler. The firm is headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky.

DTx Pharma, Inc. engages in the provision of biotechnology solutions. It focuses on the utilization of fatty acids to enable the delivery of RNA therapeutics to tissues and organ systems beyond the liver. The company was founded by Arthur T. Suckow, John Grundy, and Adam Pavlicek in August 2017 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Texan Allergy LLC provides allergy testing for environmental and food allergies. The firm’s treatment options include allergy drops, allergy shots, oral immunotherapy treatment, balloon sinuplasty and other sinus services. The company was founded by Christopher Thompson and Allison Thompson in 2012 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

KdT Ventures LLC (KdT Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2017 by Andrew Cain McClary. The firm is headquartered in Austin, Texas.

Ribometrix, Inc. develops small molecule drugs that target functional RNA structures to create new avenues to treat human disease. The company was founded by Kevin Weeks and Katie Warner and is headquartered in Greenville, NC.

Jnana Therapeutics, Inc. provides drug development services. The firm focuses on immunometabolism changing the metabolic pathways in immune cells to affect function; lysosomal function and mucosal defense. The company was founded by Stuart L. Schreiber, Ramnik Xavier, Joanne Kotz and Joel C. Barrish and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Affordable Water Heaters & Plumbing, Inc. provides hot water heater replacement and repair services. It also offers ancillary plumbing services. The company was founded by Lee Roux in 1995 and is headquartered in Valencia, CA.

Indefinite Integral, Inc. is a financial services company, which develops monetary contracts based on block chain. The company was founded by James Prestwich and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Cerebral Therapeutics, Inc. develops neurological therapeutics for uncontrolled neurological diseases. It is a clinical-stage company dedicated to improving the lives of patients living with uncontrolled neurological diseases, with an initial focus on refractory epilepsy. The firm offers long-term implanted drug-device combination therapies that bypass the blood-brain barrier to deliver optimal doses of specially formulated neurological therapeutics directly into the target region of the brain. The company was founded by Daniel J. Abrams and James P. Kelleher and is headquartered in Aurora, CO.

Impactive Capital LP is an independent registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded by Lauren Taylor Wolfe and Christian A. Asmar in 2018. Impactive Capital serves as investment advisor and provides discretionary advisory services to private funds.

InProduction, Inc. engages in entertainment business. It offers audience risers, stadium seating, staging and platforms, scenic products, flooring, scoreboards and barricades, temporary bridges and rental bridges, and drapery products. The company was founded by Scott Suprina in 1980 and is headquartered in Carrollton, TX.

Andes Ag, Inc. manufactures seeds through microbial technology and artificial intelligence. The company was founded by Gonzalo M. Fuenzalida and is headquartered in Emeryville, CA.

Emergence Therapeutics AG is biopharmaceutical company. It develops novel antibody drug conjugate. The company was founded by Jack Elands and Xavier Preville and is headquartered in Duisburg, Germany.

Forge Biologics, Inc. operates as a gene therapy development engine, focused on enabling access to life changing gene therapies. The firm is a viral vector gene therapy manufacturing and development company with the dual platform of CDMO capabilities and the development of proprietary gene therapy products. The company was founded by Timothy J. Miller and Jaysson Eicholtz and is headquartered in Columbus, OH.

Euro Motorparts Group provides automotive services. The company is headquartered in Anaheim, CA.

Cyberdontics develops automated robotics for dental clinics. The company was founded by Christopher J. Ciriello and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Part of Dimension Inx LLC, Dimension Inx Corp. engages in developing architect of regenerative microenvironments. The company is based in Chicago, IL. The company was founded by Caralynn Nowinski Collens, Adam E. Jakus, Ramille N. Shah. Caralynn Nowinski Collens has been the CEO since incorporation.

Part of Kira Pharmaceuticals (Suzhou) Co., Ltd., Kira Pharmaceuticals (US) LLC develops transformative therapies for people with complement-mediated diseases. The company is based in Cambridge, MA. The company was founded by Gonghua Pan, Wenru Song. Frederick C. Beddingfield has been the CEO of the company since 2020.

Evergreen Lawn Care & Pest Control LLC provides pest control and lawn care services. The company is based in Apopka, FL.

Vecprobio Inc. develops manufacturing technologies and tools for gene therapy. The company is based in San Diego, CA. The company was founded in 2022. Daniel Gibbs has been the CEO of the company since 2022.