Jay Howard Bernstein

Hirsch Solutions, Inc. distributes apparel decoration equipment and technology solutions. It provides embroidery equipment, embroidery and software automation solutions, textile lasers, direct-to-garment equipment, direct to garment printers and industrial sewing machines, textile dryer equipment, and screen printing equipment. The company was founded in 1968 and is headquartered in Huntersville, NC.

Firebrand Financial Group, Inc. provides investment banking, asset management and securities brokerage services to small- and mid-capitalization companies and early-stage growth companies. The company was founded on January 30, 1987 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Goldman Sachs Execution & Clearing LP (GSEC) is an SEC-registered broker/dealer headquartered in New York City and was founded in 1931. The firm is a subsidiary of Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE: GS). GSEC provides brokerage services to their clients.

Knight Capital Group, Inc. is a global financial services firm, which provides access to the capital markets across multiple asset classes to a broad network of clients, including buy and sell side firms, dealers, brokers, institutions, and corporations. It operates business through four segments: Market Making, Institutional Sales and Trading, Electronic Execution Services and Corporate and Other. The Market Making segment consists of market making in global equities and listed domestic options. It includes client, and to a lesser extent, non-client electronic market making activities in which they operate as a market maker in equity securities. The Institutional Sales and Trading segment includes global equity, exchange traded funds and fixed income sales and trading; reverse mortgage origination and securitization; capital markets; and asset management activities. Its business consists of execution and facilitation equities and fixed income transactions as agent on behalf of institutional clients, and they commit capital on behalf of its clients when needed. The Electronic Execution Services segment offers access via its electronic agency-based platforms to markets and self-directed trading in equities, equity options, fixed income, foreign exchange and futures contracts. The Corporate and Other segment invests in strategic financial services-oriented opportunities, allocates, deploys and monitors all capital, and maintains corporate overhead expenses and all other income and expenses that are not attributable to the other segments. The company was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in Jersey City, NJ.

Founded in 1922, Weeden & Co. LP is a broker/dealer headquartered in Greenwich, Connecticut with additional offices in Boston, Chicago, Minneapolis and San Francisco. The firm offers a full array of investment services with independent value-added research covering various sectors. Weeden's research goal is to produce independent, actionable long/short ideas that are free from the inherent conflicts created by investment banking. The firm vigilantly monitors proprietary, quantitative and fundamental indicators across all asset classes to identify and communicate important inflection points within the marketplace to clients. Their equities trading division specializes in difficult-to-execute orders. They are a member of the FINRA, NASDAQ and the SIPC.

Armada Water Assets, Inc. engages in the collection, handling, transport, treatment and reuse of contaminated water. It operates through four segments: Texas Water Logistics, Colorado Water Treatment and Disposal, Colorado Water Logistics and Corporate. The company’s services include fluids transport, water sale, water treatment, subsurface disposal and water logistics. Armada Water Assets was founded on October 23, 2012 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

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.

APX, Inc. provides innovative technology and service solutions to the energy and environmental markets. Its services include spans transaction management, registries, scheduling, settlements, demand-side management, asset control, analytics, operations, exchanges, clearing, and brokerage. The company was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

The New York Mercantile Exchange, Inc. provides markets for the trading and clearing of crude and heating oil, gasoline, natural gas, and electricity. The company is headquartered in New York, NY.

Condé Nast Entertainment, Inc. develops film, television, and premium digital video programming. The firm's portfolio include Vogue, Vanity Fair, Glamour, Brides, Self, GQ, GQ Style, The New Yorker, Condé Nast Traveler, Allure, Architectural Digest, Bon Appétit, Epicurious, Wired, W, Golf Digest, Golf World, Teen Vogue, Ars Technica, The Scene, Pitchfork and Backchannel. The company was founded by Conde Montrose Nast and Pat Connolly in 2011 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Cross Match Technologies, Inc. develops biometric identity management solutions. It offers authentication and verification solutions, ten-print and palm print live scan solutions for enrollment, identification, and forensic analysis; portable and handheld identity management solutions designed for a range of users, applications, and environments; and software development kits for end-users, developers, and integrators. The company was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Palm Beach Gardens, FL.

Automated Trading Desk LLC develops systems and software for automated trading. The company was founded by David K. Whitcomb and Steven Dean Swanson in 1988 and is headquartered in Mount Pleasant, SC.

EBS Group Ltd. provides FX and precious metals transactional trading & data solutions to trading professionals and organizations. Its clients include JP Morgan, RBS, The Bank of New York, DBS, Minex, RBC Capital Markets, ABN-AMRO, Bank of America, SEB, State Street, Citi Group, Lehman Brothers, SG Corporate & Investment Banking and Barclays. The company was founded in 1991 and is located in London, UK.

Cantor Fitzgerald LP provides brokerage services. It offers capital market, investment banking and portfolio business services. The company was founded in 1945 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Part of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., Aron & Co., Inc. is a commodities trading company. The company is based in New York, NY.

Consolidated Waste Services of America provides waste management services. The company is headquartered in Toms River, NJ

Seven Seas Cruises S de RL LLC owns and operates cruises. It sells its cruises to travel agents, charters and incentive clients. The firm also offers onboard services which include shore excursion program, food and dining services. The company was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Miami, FL.

NYSE Blue, Inc. provides innovative technology and service solutions to the energy and environmental markets. The company was founded on February 22, 2011 and is headquartered in Hoboken, NJ.

Part of WR Managed Accounts LLC, WR Platform Advisors LP provides compelling, memorable identities to companies across the globe. The company is based in Stamford, CT. WR Platform Advisors has provided domain names to hundreds of businesses, including Cracke.com, Moz.com, and Rustico.com, among others. The company offers a curated collection of resonant domain names with strong brand appeal, matching a product or service with an intuitive brand. The company's domain portfolio includes thousands of domain names, such as Abalone.com, Aquamarine.com, and Wildwest.com, among others. The company's domains have helped businesses achieve instant brand recognition, ignite a business, and massively accelerate value creation.

SoBeNY partners LLC provides vacation rental services. The American company was founded by Brian Ferdinand.

Acamar Partners Acquisition Corp. II is a blank check company, which formed for the purpose of effecting a merger, capital stock exchange, asset acquisition, stock purchase, reorganization or similar business combination with one or more entities. The company was founded on February 8, 2021 and is headquartered in Miami, FL.

Brimstone Acquisition Holdings Corp. operates as a blank check company. Its objective is for effecting a merger, share exchange, asset acquisition, share purchase, and reorganization. The company was founded by Martin E. Franklin, Michael Fenton Goss, and Robert A. E. Franklin on January 19, 2021 and is headquartered in Miami Beach, FL.

Sandbridge Capital LLC (Sandbridge Capital) is a private equity firm founded in 2012 by Kevin Suslow. The firm is headquartered in New York.