Jason A. Kesselman

Duke University is an academic university that offers undergraduate, graduate and professional programs. It also has publications and research services. The university was founded in 1838 and is headquartered in Durham, NC.

FoodLogiQ LLC develops solutions for global food chain issues. It offers audit, compliance, regulation, sustainability, tracebility, and supplier management solutions. The firm serves the food retail and grocery, consumer goods, food distributor and importers, and grower industries. The company was founded by Andy Kennedy and Thomas Finegan in 2006 and is headquartered in Durham, NC.

Tyson New Ventures LLC (Tyson New Ventures) is a venture capital firm, a subsidiary of Tyson Foods, Inc. founded in 2016. The firm is headquartered in Springdale, Arkansas.

Clear Labs, Inc. provides services related to food quality. The firm offers clear view platform, GMO test and WGS test products. The company was founded by Sasan Amini and Mahni Ghorashi in 2014 and is headquartered in San Carlos, CA.

The Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, is among the foremost of institutes of national importance in higher technological education and in basic and applied research. The Institute, with nearly 360 faculty, 4000 students, 1250 administrative and supporting staff, is a self-contained campus and is located in a beautiful, wooded land of about 250 hectares in South Madras

UBS Investment Bank provides investment banking and securities brokerage services. Its clients include institutional and corporate clients, intermediaries, governments, and hedge funds. The firm also provides merger and acquisition advisory, private placement, investment research, foreign exchange, equity, and leverage finance advisory services. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. LLC is a registered broker-dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1967 and is a subsidiary of Alliance Capital Management LLC, ultimately held by Equitable Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: EQH). Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. provides trading and executions services to their clients.

Believer Meats operates biotechnology company. It transforms global meat production through distributive manufacturing of fat and muscle cells. The company was founded by Yaakov Nahmias in 2018 and is headquartered in Jerusalem, Israel.

Soft Robotics, Inc. designs and builds soft robotic automation systems that can grasp and manipulate items of varying size, shape and weight with a single device. It also offers an ecosystem of robots, control systems, data and machine learning to enable the workplace of the future. The company was founded by Carmichael S. Roberts, Jr., Mitchell R. Zakin and George M. Whitesides in 2013 and is headquartered in Bedford, MA.

Evermore Global Advisors LLC (Evermore) is an independent investment manager headquartered in Summit, New Jersey. The firm was founded in 2009 by David Marcus and Eric LeGoff. In March 2023, MFP Investors LLC acquired the business assets of Evermore and, in April 2023, became the sub-adviser to the Evermore Global Value Fund, a sub-adviser to a model account, and investment adviser to several separate accounts, all of which were formerly managed by Evermore.

Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC is a registered broker-dealer subsidiary of Morgan Stanley Domestic Holdings, Inc., ultimately owned by Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) in the US. Headquartered in New York City, the firm was founded in 1987 and provides debt and equity services including underwriting, M&A advice, securities dealing and brokerage and trade execution. Their client base ranges from large global institutional investors to hedge funds at the cutting edge of innovation in the industry.

Ingalls & Snyder LLC is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1924 by Roscoe C. Ingalls and John T. Snyder. Ingalls & Snyder provides investment management and related services to private clients and institutional investors. The firm also serves as investment advisor to several private investment funds.

Founded in 2003 by Arthur Williams, Summit Street Capital Management LLC is a hedge fund manager located in New York City.

CPI International Holding Corp. develops, manufactures, and distributes microwave, radio frequency, power, and control products. The company is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

MycoTechnology, Inc. is a food technology company, which engages in the development and delivering of fermentation process using gourmet fungi to transform agricultural products to improve taste, value, and health. Its products include ClearTaste and PureTaste. The company was founded by Alan D. Hahn, Pete Lubar, Jim Langan, and Brooks J. Kelly in 2013 and is headquartered in Aurora, CO.

Part of Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Inc., Kellogg Capital Markets LLC is a company that provides market making and institutional broker-dealer services. The company is based in New York, NY.

Private Capital Management LLC (PCM) is a SEC-registered investment and wealth advisory firm headquartered in Naples, Florida. The firm was founded in 1986 as an extension of a family office and operated as Private Capital Management LP until 2013. They are a subsidiary of Private Capital Management Holdings LP. PCM discretionary investment management services to individual and institutional investors through separately managed portfolios.

Amphion Capital Management LLC (Amphion Capital) is a venture capital firm subsidiary of Amphion Innovations Plc founded in 1995 by Richard Morgan and Robert Bertoldi. The firm is headquartered in New York.

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

NLG Capital, Inc. is a registered investment advisor headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama. It was founded in 1968 and formerly known as Sentinel Asset Management, Inc. They became NLG Capital, Inc. in 2022. The firm is wholly-owned by NLV Financial Corp., which is a wholly-owned subsidiary of National Life Holding Co. NLG Capital offers discretionary investment advisory services to various types of institutional clients, focusing on fixed income investments.

Icahn & Co., Inc. provides security brokerage and dealership services. It focuses on risk arbitrage and options trading. It offers services to real estate development, oil and gas, railcar leasing, manufacturing, and technology firms. The company was founded in 1968 by Carl Icahn and is headquartered in New York, NY.

AllianceBernstein LP (AB) is a SEC-registered investment advisor and mutual fund manager headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee. Founded in 2000, the firm is owned by Equitable Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: EQH). AB provides investment advice to investment companies, pension and profit-sharing plans, banks and thrift institutions, trusts, estates, government agencies, charitable organizations, individuals, corporations and other business entities.

JPMorgan Investment Management, Inc. (JPMIM) is a global, SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 2000 due to Chase Manhattan's purchase of Robert Fleming Holdings and the subsequent merger of Chase and JPMorgan. In January 2010, JPMorgan Investment Advisors merged into JP Morgan Investment Management. JPMIM is a subsidiary of JPMorgan Asset Management Holdings, Inc., ultimately owned by JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM). The firm primarily provides investment advisory services to both US and non-US institutional and retail clients.

UBS Securities LLC is an investment bank and registered broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1998 as UBS Warburg LLC. They are a subsidiary of UBS Americas Holding LLC, ultimately held by UBS Group AG (SWX: UBSG, NYSE: UBS) in Switzerland. UBS Securities is a primary dealer in US Government securities and provides a full range of investment banking services which includes corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, trading and sales, fixed-income, equity research, private banking, underwriting and prime brokerage operations. The firm also provides advisory services and access to capital markets for corporate, institutional, intermediary and alternative asset management clients.