Joseph S. Burkhart

Sands Capital Management LLC (Sands Capital) is a registered investment advisor headquartered in Arlington, Virginia. The firm was founded in 1992 by Frank Sands and is majority owned by Sands Capital Management LP. Sands Capital provides investment management services to both US and non-US clients who may have taxable or tax-exempt status. These institutional and high net worth clients, banking or thrift institutions, investment companies and pooled investment vehicles, pension and profit-sharing plans, charitable organizations, state and municipal government entities, sovereign wealth funds and foreign official institutions, corporations, non-US pension funds and superannuation funds.

Ernst & Young LLP engages in the provision of accounting, assurance, tax, transaction, and advisory services. It specializes in the actuarial, analytics and big data, cyber security, accounting compliance and reporting, center for board matters, international financial reporting standards, country tax advisory, global trade, tax accounting, and climate change and sustainability. The company was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Navint Partners LLC provides consulting and enterprise information technology transformation services. It offers technology selection and deployment, change management leadership, project management, process optimization, business intelligence, outsourcing advisory, project turnarounds, supply chain management, and other services. The company was founded by Mark Vaughn and Robert Sullivan in 2010 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

American Capital Asset Management LLC (American Capital) is a private equity firm founded in 1986 by Malon Wilkus. The firm is headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland.

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.

Celltrak Technologies, Inc. provides software-as-a-service based mobile solutions. It offers services to home healthcare, hospice and private duty markets in the United States and Canada. The firm offers CellTrak visit manager platform that enables users to automate workflow, improve compliance and reduce operating costs. It also provides homecare technology platform and data management solutions, which include care plan management, global position systems (GPS) and directions, time and attendance, travel time and mileage, supply management, IVR and telephony, alerting and messaging, scheduling, location based services management, nurse care, wound care and disease care modules. The company was founded by Andrew M. Kaboff and Steven A. Wegner in 2006 and is headquartered in Schaumburg, IL.

Harvard University engages in the provision of teaching and research. It has twelve degree-granting Schools in addition to the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, offering a global education. The university was founded in 1636 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Bluearc Capital Partners LLC (Bluearc Capital Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 2005 by Ronald Jr Zazworsky. The firm is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.

Saratoga Investment Advisors LLC (Saratoga Investment Advisors) is a private equity subsidiary of Saratoga Partners Group founded in 2007 by Chris L. Oberbeck. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Moody's Investors Service, Inc. is a credit rating and investment research firm headquartered in New York City. They are a subsidiary of Moody's Corp. (NYSE: MCO). The firm performs international financial research and analysis on commercial and government entities and provides a variety of analytic tools for assessing credit risk. Their clients include creditors, investment banks and commercial banks.

Gladstone Management Corp (Gladstone management) is a private equity subsidiary of Gladstone Holding Corp founded in 2001 by David J. The firm is headquartered in McLean, Virginia.

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.

Trusted Insight, Inc. operates an online marketplace for alternative investments. It invests in alternative assets, primarily private equity, hedge funds, real estate and private companies. The firm’s users consist of pension funds, endowments, foundations, sovereign wealth funds, family offices, banks and insurance companies. The company was founded by Jonathan D. LaCrosse and Alex Bangash in 2010 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

AIA Investment Management HK Ltd. (AIMHK) is the wholly-owned asset management subsidiary of AIA Group Ltd. (HKG: 1299) (AIA), a multinational insurance and finance corporation headquartered in Hong Kong. The firm was founded in 2018 to further enhance the management of AIA Group's insurance assets and provide investment management services to AIA. AIMHK caters solely to AIA and dedicates their investment resources to manage the assets of their life insurance business and pension funds.

Mercury Partners Management LLC (Mercury Partners) is a venture capital subsidiary of Threshold Ventures Inc. founded in 2005 by Dan Watkins and Blair Garrou. The firm is headquartered in Houston, Texas.

Photoneo Sro engages in the development of 3 dimensional vision systems. It offers MotionCam-3D, PhoXi 3D Scanner, Bin Picking, and Phollower 100. The company was founded by Jan Zizka and Tomas Kovacovsky on August 24, 2013 and is headquartered in Bratislava, Slovakia.

Estimize, Inc. operates as an open financial estimates platform. It allows individuals and professionals to share analysis in an open and transparent. The firm's data helps to independent analysts, investors and students. The company was founded by Leigh Drogen, Brian Smith and Matthew Jording in May 2011 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Morgan Stanley Asia Ltd. (MSA) is a broker/dealer headquartered in Hong Kong. The firm was founded in 1987 and is a subsidiary of Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) in the US. MSA provides institutional securities such as equities, fixed income, derivatives and research.

Ace Portal, Inc. provides a technology platform for new issuances of private securities. It engages in any negotiations regarding potential investments, or participates in the sale or purchase of any securities or otherwise effect transactions in securities. The company was founded by Peter Williams and Richard Pistilli in 2012 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

TripleBlind, Inc. provides data privacy and virtual clean room solutions. Its technology offers load content as is, leak proof operations, IP protection, digital rights management and auditability, discoverability, and granularity. The company was founded by Riddhiman Das and Greg Storm and is headquartered in Kansas City, MO.

NoMad Data, Inc. is a data relationship management and discovery platform. The company is based in New York, NY. Recently, the company announced the closing of a $3.20 million seed funding round, led by Struck Capital. The company was founded in 2020 by Brad Schneider. Brad Schneider has been the CEO since 2020.

Blockchain Triangle Systems US Inc is a digital finance platform that focuses on funding and managing climate and infrastructure assets. The company is based in Hamilton, Bermuda. The Bermudian company's digital twin technology provides a scalable real-time solution for baselining and benchmarking assets for ESG compliance. The platform also offers real-time data liquidity creation compliant and regulated offerings. The company was founded by Raj Parimi, Darren Wolfberg, Logan Sugarman. Darren Wolfberg has been the CEO since incorporation.

Part of ACT Commodities Group BV, Green Project Technologies, Inc. is a SaaS climate and ESG data management platform. The company is based in New York, NY. Green Project Technologies offers three primary market segments: helping private equity firms track the emissions of their portfolio companies, enabling companies to track the emissions of their vendors and supply chain, and allowing eco-minded organizations to align their sustainability values with rigorous data reporting efforts. The company's mission is to decarbonize the private markets. Green Project Technologies was founded in 2020 by Samuel Stark, who has been the CEO since 2020. Green Project Technologies was acquired by ACT Commodities Group BV on April 17, 2023.

Blue Collective LLC (Blue Collective) is a private equity and venture capital firm founded in 2010 by JJ Kasper and Brian K. Stafford. The firm is headquartered in Brooklyn, New York.

The Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Inc. is an independent organization that focuses on restoring and protecting the Chesapeake Bay and its tributary rivers. It was founded in 1967 and is headquartered in Annapolis, MD.

ScriptCo Inc. is a membership-based pharmacy that aims to make prescription medications more affordable for everyone. The company is based in Woodway, TX. The company does not accept any form of insurance and supplies the same generic medications. To become a member, one needs to fill out the forms on their website. Prescribers can send in new prescriptions to ScriptCo Pharmacy through E-Scribe or other means. The company was founded by Mark McCormick and Zach Zeller, and Mark McCormick has been the CEO since incorporation.

Part of McKinsey & Co., Inc., McKinsey & Company Holdings Ltd. is a consulting firm that partners with leaders on strategy, innovating to net zero, leading with tech, and building capabilities for a sustainable, inclusive, growing future. The company is based in London, UK. The British company specializes in Consumer Packaged Goods and has conducted research, articles, and reports on the changes that matter most for the challenges and opportunities ahead. The company was founded in 2011 by Brian K. Stafford.

Purely Maple, Inc. produces and distributes beverages including maple water. The firm offers maple water under its Happy Tree brand. Its products include lemon, ginger and cold brew coffee. The company was founded by Ari Tolwin and Chaim Tolwin in 2014 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Sass Labs, Inc. engages in developing an artificial intelligence (AI) recruiting platform. Its platform AllyO utilizes deeply conversational AI to fully automate an end-to-end recruiting workflow by engaging via texting over mobile and web. The company was founded by Sahil Sahni and Ankit Somani in 2016 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

FarmTogether, Inc. invests in farmland. The company was founded by Artem Milinchuk and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.