Lawrence Simon

Founded in 1984 by Howard Wohl and Lawrence Simon, Ivy Asset Management LLC is a global fund-of-hedge fund firm located in Jericho, New York with additional offices in New York City and London. They are a subsidiary of the Bank of New York Mellon Corp. (NYSE: BK), which acquired the firm in October 2000. Ivy Asset Management offers a variety of risk-adjusted, performance-driven multi-manager products ranging from diversified proprietary fund portfolios to customized programs. The firm provides services to global institutional investors including: (1) Fortune 500 companies (2) global banks (3) multi-national insurance corporations (4) global investment banking firms (5) municipality pension plans and monetary authorities (6) Taft-Hartley plans (7) registered investment companies (8) foundations (9) endowments (10) non-profit organizations (11) professional money managers (12) high net-worth individuals and (13) private family offices.