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Kennedy Capital Management LLC (KCM) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri. The firm was founded by Gerald Kennedy and Richard Sinise in 1980 as Kennedy Capital Management, Inc. In November 2022, the firm converted from “Kennedy Capital Management, Inc.”, a Missouri S corporation, to “Kennedy Capital Management LLC”, a Delaware limited liability company. They are a subsidiary of KCM Holdings, Inc. KCM manages assets for institutional and high-net-worth clients.

Central Trust Co. is a trust company and investment management firm headquartered in Jefferson City, Missouri. The firm is a subsidiary of Central Bancompany, Inc. Central Trust Co. was founded in 2007 when Central Bancompany, Inc. combined the trust and investment management functions of Guaranty Trust Co., Boone County National Bank, Central Bank and Empire Bank. They manage portfolios for individuals, trusts, IRAs, corporations, retirement plans, charitable organizations and foundations.

Financial Counselors, Inc. (do-business-as FCI Advisors) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Overland Park, Kansas. The firm was founded in 1966 and is a wholly owned subsidiary of FCI Holding Corp., which is wholly owned by MTC Holding Corp. FCI Advisors provides investment advisory services to individuals, investment companies, pension and profit-sharing plans, trusts, estates, charitable organizations, corporations, and other business entities. The firm also provides sub-advisory services for their affiliates The Midwest Trust Co. and Benefit Trust Co.

Vector Capital Management LP (Vector Capital Management) is an Independent Private Equity firm founded in 1997 by Alexander R. Slusky. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco.

Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, Inc. (KBW) is a full-service investment bank and broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1962 and is a subsidiary of Stifel Financial Corp. (NYSE: SF). KBW offers sales and trading in equities securities of financial services companies.

Edward D. Jones & Co. LP is a broker-dealer and registered investment advisor located in St. Louis, Missouri. The firm is a subsidiary of the Jones Financial Cos. LLLP. Edward Jones provides financial services for individual investors and businesses in the US, Canada and the United Kingdom. Edward Jones registered as a broker–dealer in 1941 and as an investment adviser in 1993. The firm offers a full array of investment services. They cover stocks that perform over the long-term, focusing on US, Canadian and Western European companies with long, stable, operating histories.

Tortoise Capital Advisors LLC (Tortoise) is a SEC-registered investment advisor firm headquartered in Overland Park, Kansas. The firm was founded by Harold Birzer in 2002 and is a subsidiary of TortoiseEcofin Borrower LLC (formerly Tortoise Borrower LLC), ultimately held by TortoiseEcofin Investments LLC. Tortoise provides investment management services to individual and institutional investors and pooled investment vehicles.

Founded in 2004, TD Securities (USA) LLC is a broker/dealer located in New York City with additional offices in Toronto, Montreal, Calgary, Vancouver, London, Singapore, Tokyo and Sydney. The firm is a subsidiary of Toronto Dominion Holdings (USA), Inc. and their ultimate parent is Toronto-Dominion Bank (NYSE: TD). TD Securities (USA) provides a wide range of capital market products and services to corporate, government and institutional clients in five areas of finance including: investment banking, debt capital markets, institutional equities, foreign exchange and money markets. Their services include the underwriting and distribution of new debt and equity issues, providing advice on strategic acquisitions and divestitures and executing daily trading and investment needs. The equity group provides research coverage of media and communications, technology, financial services, oil and gas, mining and metals, industrial products, forest products, technology, utilities and power, real estate, biotechnology, consumer products and merchandising and quantitative analysis strategy. The fixed-income group provides a full range of underwriting sales and trading products for Canadian, U.S. and European debt issuers and investors.

Ladenburg Thalmann & Co., Inc. (Broker) is the broker/dealer division of Ladenburg Thalmann & Co., Inc., ultimately held by Advisor Group Holdings, Inc. Headquartered in New York City, the firm was founded in 1876 and offers a full suite of capital markets products and services, including proprietary equity research and a fixed-income trading desk. For institutional asset management clients, the firm provides liquidity, execution, high-quality idea-generating research, and access to corporate management teams. Their institutional coverage includes relationships with over asset management companies all over the world. To corporate clients, they bring access to investor capital, broad distribution capabilities and financial markets advisory. Ladenburg Thalmann is a leader in financing growing middle-market public companies across various industry verticals, including Healthcare & Life Sciences, Yield-Oriented Securities (BDCs, REITs, MLPs), Energy, Power & Infrastructure, and Telecom, Media & Technology.

HM Capital Management LLC (HMCM) is an independent investment advisory firm headquartered in Clayton, Missouri. The firm was founded in 2005 by Matthew Kopsky, Karen Gloriod and Maribeth Snodgass. HMCM provides wealth management services to affluent families and retirement planning to institutional clients.

Planful, Inc. provides corporate performance management solutions for manufacturing, retail, healthcare, technology, financial, and entertainment industries. It offers budgeting, forecasting, financial consolidation, dashboarding, scorecarding, reporting, and analysis. The firm also offers classroom training, virtual classes, recordings, certification, and training guides. The company was founded by James A. Eberlin and Sreedhar Peddineni in May 2000 and is headquartered in Redwood City, CA.

American Century Investments Value Yield LLC provides asset management services. The company is headquartered in Kansas City, MO.

Nuance Investments LLC (Nuance) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri. The firm was founded by Scott Moore in 2008 and is owned by SA Moore Family Corp. Nuance provides investment management services and investment products and services to individuals, trusts, estates, charitable organizations, corporations, retirement plans and business entities through separate accounts and mutual funds.

Archford Capital Strategies LLC (Archford) is an independent registered investment advisor and wealth management firm headquartered in Swansea, Illinois. The firm was founded by James “Jim” Maher in 2013. Archford offers investment advisory services to individuals, high net worth individuals, trusts, estates, pension and profit-sharing plans, charitable organizations, corporations and businesses.

Stifel, Nicolaus & Co., Inc. (Stifel) is a dual-registered broker-dealer and investment adviser headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri. Founded in 1890, the firm is a subsidiary of Stifel Financial Corp. (NYSE: SF), a financial service holding company. Stifel provides full-service brokerage and investment advisory services to individuals and their families, institutions and businesses, and financial advisors.

Wells Fargo Securities LLC (WFS) is the broker/dealer subsidiary of EVEREN Capital Corp., ultimately owned by Wells Fargo & Co. (NYSE: WFC). Headquartered in New York, WFS delivers a comprehensive suite of banking, capital markets and advisory solutions, such as a full complement of sales, trading and research capabilities, to corporate, government and institutional clients.

Lewis & Clark AgriFood (Lewis & Clark AgriFood) is a venture capital firm founded in 2016. The firm headquartered in Saint Louis, Missouri.

Founded in 2001, Macquarie Capital (USA), Inc. is a registered broker/dealer located in New York City. The firm is a subsidiary of Macquarie Bank Ltd. (ASX: MBL). They provide coverage of the following industries: resources, healthcare, security/defense, transportation, financial services, retail/consumer products, TMET (telecommunications, media, entertainment and technology), oil & gas, diversified manufacturing/distribution and infrastructure/utilities. Macquarie Capital (USA), Inc. is a member of FINRA.

Five Elms Capital Management LLC (Five Elms Capital) is a private equity firm founded by Fred Coulson in 2007. The firm is headquartered in Kansas.

Lewis & Clark Venture Capital LLC (Lewis & Clark Venture) is a venture capital subsidiary of Lewis & Clark Partners LLC founded in 2014 by Thomas J. Hillman. The firm is headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri.

Wind Point Advisors LLC (Wind Point Advisors) is a private equity firm founded in 1984 by Rich Kracum and Bob Cummings. The firm is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

Leerink Partners LLC is a full-service brokerage and investment banking firm headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. The firm was founded by Jeffrey Leerink in 1995 and formerly known as SVB Securities LLC. They rebranded as Leerink Partners in 2023. The firm is a subsidiary of SVB Securities LLC. Leerink Partners provides institutional sales, equity research, institutional trading, and corporate finance and asset management services to the healthcare and technology industries. They offer superior execution capabilities in common stock, convertibles and derivatives with a singular focus on healthcare and a knowledge-led approach.

Envera Systems LLC engages in the provision of security services. It offers surveillance, access control, keyless entry, virtual gate guard, virtual doorman, burglar alarm and visitor verification for gated communities, clubhouses, pools and other amenities. The company was founded by Thomas Edward Swain and Addi J. Aloya in 1996 and is headquartered in Coconut Creek, FL.

Gappify, Inc. engages in the provision of bots for accounting teams in mid-market and enterprise-sized companies. It offers collections management, confirmations, and vendor management solutions. The company was founded was founded by Jotham Ty in 2016 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

C3 Capital LLC (C3 Capital) is a private equity subsidiary of CPC LLC founded in 1994 by Patrick D Curran, Patrick F Healy, Smith Robert and Steven Swartzman. The firm is headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri.

CPC LLC is a subsidiary of CPC Management, which is a long-term investment company organized as a company, not around funds like traditional private equity firms. CPC is based in Kansas City, MO and has subsidiaries in Sweden and the United States. The company focuses on creating defensible, long-term value by investing in innovation, workforce development, new technologies, and supply chain improvements. CPC is owned by large family offices and successful entrepreneurs who are aligned around long-term decision making and wealth creation. It was formed from the merging of Curran Companies and C3 Capital's management teams. CPC aims to invest $600mm to $700mm into lower middle market businesses over the next five years. The company does not use enterprise leverage to fund acquisitions and emphasizes excelling in the five key battles™: people, systems and processes, execution, customer intimacy, and product leadership. The company was founded by Desmond Patrick Curran, Jared E. Poland, Patrick F. Healy, Patrick Wiley Curran, Robert L. Smith, and Steven E. Swartzman.

B. Riley Securities, Inc. is a registered broker/dealer headquartered in Los Angeles, California. The firm is a subsidiary of B. Riley Securities Holdings LLC, ultimately owned by B. Riley Financial, Inc. (NASDAQ: RILY). The firm was formed in 2017, when B. Riley Financial, Inc. merged two of their brokers, B. Riley & Co. (founded in 1997) and FBR Capital Markets & Co. (founded in 1989), under the name of B. Riley FBR, Inc. B. Riley Securities provides research and trading ideas to institutional clients and high net-worth individuals. They provide investment banking services to a wide range of middle-market private and public companies.

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.

Meridian Logistics LLC engages in the provision of freight brokerage services. It offers LTL freight shipping, truckload shipping, inbound vendor management, intermodal, and custom freight solutions. The company was founded by Christopher J. Clever in January 2009 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

Founded in 1958, Merrill Lynch Piece Fenner & Smith, Inc. is an SEC registered broker/dealer located in New York City. The firm is a subsidiary of BAC North America Holding Co. and their ultimate parent is Bank of America Corp. (NYSE BAC).

Wells Fargo Clearing Services LLC (WFCS) is a SEC-registered investment advisor and wealth management firm headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri. The firm was founded 1852 and formerly known as Wells Fargo Advisors LLC. They are a subsidiary of Wachovia Securities Financial Holdings LLC, a non-bank indirect subsidiary of Wells Fargo & Co. (NYSE: WFC), a financial and bank holding company. Wells Fargo Advisors is a trade name used by Wells Fargo Advisors Financial Network LLC and Wells Fargo Clearing Services LLC. WFCS provides investment advisory services to individuals, pension or profit-sharing plans, trusts, estates or charitable organizations, corporations or other business entities, governmental entities and educational institutions, as well as banks or thrift institutions. They also act as portfolio manager for certain wrap fee advisory programs.

Guggenheim Partners Investment Management LLC (GPIM) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Santa Monica, California. The firm was founded by Mark Walter in 2005 and is a direct subsidiary of Guggenheim Partners Investment Management Holdings LLC, ultimately owned by Guggenheim Partners LLC. GPIM provides investment advisory and supervisory services to a variety of institutional clients through separately managed accounts (SMAs) and registered and unregistered pooled investment vehicles.

Vivaldi Capital Management LP (VCM) is a wealth management firm and registered investment advisor headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. The firm was co-founded by Randal Golden and David Sternberg in 2011. They are primarily owned by VFT Holdings LP. VCM provides integrated wealth management solutions to high-net-worth individuals, family offices and institutions and their related entities, which includes trusts and retirement plans.

Omega Fund Management Ltd. (OFM) is the wholly-owned private equity firm founded by Dr. Otello Stampacchia in 2004. The firm is headquartered in the US.