Laura Swartz

Voya Financial Advisors, Inc. (VFA) is a dually registered investment advisor and broker/dealer headquartered in Windsor, Connecticut. Formerly known as ING Financial Partners, Inc., the firm was founded in 1994 as Washington Square Securities, Inc. They are a subsidiary of Voya Holdings, Inc., which is owned by Voya Financial, Inc. (NYSE: VOYA). VFA provides investment advisory services to individuals (including high net-worth individuals), pension and profit-sharing plans (and plan participants), charitable organizations, corporations and other businesses.

Needham & Co. LLC (Needham) is a registered investment advisor and broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1985 and is a wholly-owned indirect subsidiary of The Needham Group, Inc. Needham provides corporate and institutional clients with high quality research, corporate access, capital markets and trading execution services in both the public and private markets, with an emphasis on growth companies.

Northwestern University is a private institution founded in 1851 to serve the Northwest Territory, an area that now includes the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and parts of Minnesota. Northwestern has three campuses

First Eagle Investment Management LLC (FEIM) is a SEC-registered investment advisor and holding firm headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1864 and formerly known as Arnhold & S. Bleichroeder Advisers, Inc. FEIM provides investment advisory services primarily to mutual funds, private funds, collective investment trusts and institutional separately managed accounts (SMAs), as well as to a registered, closed-end interval fund. The firm serves as the investment adviser to the First Eagle Funds, First Eagle Variable Funds and to the First Eagle Credit Opportunities Fund, which are registered investment companies.