Matthew Rhodes-Kropf

D. E. Shaw & Co. LP (DESCO) is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1992 by David Elliot Shaw. DESCO serves as the managing member, manager and/or investment advisor of certain entities in the D. E. Shaw Group and provides investment advice to several affiliated hedge funds and other entities. The investor base of the funds includes institutional investors and other highly sophisticated, high-net worth participants.

Proclivity Media, Inc. provides advertising and marketing services. It enables online retailers to execute revenue-generating, direct marketing campaigns based on their consumer's individual valuations and forecasted willingness to buy. The firm is the market's first digital advertising platform built specifically for retail and commerce brands to unlock their unique data advantage to drive sales and ROI. The company was founded by Sheldon Gilbert in 2006 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

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.

Ford Foundation is an independent, nonprofit, non-governmental organization headquartered in New York City. Founded in 1936, the Foundation provides grants, projects and loans to strengthen democratic values, reduce poverty and injustice, promote international cooperation and advance human achievement. The foundation funds derive from an investment portfolio that began with gifts and bequests of Ford Motor Company stock by Henry and Edsel Ford.

Citizens Budget Commission, Inc. operates an organization that influences constructive changes in the finances and services. It researches and analyzes the city's finances and fiscal affairs of state government and evaluates the management of city government. The company was founded in 1932 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Axioma, Inc. develops, markets, and implements optimization modeling and decision support software for the financial services industry. Its products include Axioma Portfolio Optimizer, Axioma Robust Risk Models, Axioma Performance Attribution, Axioma Backtester, Axioma Portfolio Analytics, and Axioma Risk Model Machine. The company was founded by Sebastián Ceria in 1998 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

D. E. Shaw & Co. (London) LLP (D. E. Shaw-London) is an alternative investment manager headquartered in London, UK. The firm was founded in 2004 and is a subsidiary of D. E. Shaw & Co. LP in the US. D. E. Shaw-London manages assets on behalf of institutional clients and high net worth investors.

Mismi, Inc. operates as a electronic broker dealer and alternative trading system firm. It develops a suite of trade execution technologies that offer traders control, and single-name and portfolio execution. The company provides algorithmic trading, single-name execution strategies, portfolio and pairs execution strategies, portfolio and continuous crossing, optimization-based portfolio construction, and portfolio trading services. Mismi was founded by Andrew Papandreadis in 2006 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

OptiMA, Inc. is a woman-owned company that sells dry erase boards and visual display products like custom printed dry erase boards, magnetic dry erase boards and a variety of student lap boards. Its products include marker trays, magnets and magnetic accessories, paper easel pads, letter boards and cubical white board hangers. The company was founded by Doug Klimavich and Christine Klimavich in 1987 and is headquartered in Shrewsbury, MA.

Magnitude Capital LLC (Magnitude) is an independent investment adviser and Fund of Hedge Funds Manager headquartered in New York City. Magnitude was founded in 2002 and builds and manages global, multi-strategy hedge-fund portfolios and related vehicles.

Cubist Systematic Strategies LLC (CSS) is an alternative investment manager headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut. The firm was founded in 2014 and is a subsidiary of Point72 Asset Management LP, ultimately owned by Point72 Capital Holdings LP. CSS provides investment advisory services to their clients.

Lumina Impact Ventures (Lumina Impact Ventures) is a venture capital arm of Lumina Foundation for Education, Inc founded in 2016 by John Duong. The firm is headquartered in Indianapolis, IN.

Qontigo is the US-based investment research subsidiary of Deutsche B?rse AG (ETR: DB1) in Germany. Headquartered in New York City, the firm was founded in 2019 through the combination of STOXX Ltd. and Axioma. They provide index, analytics and risk solutions for asset managers, asset owners, hedge funds, wealth managers and sell-side firms.

55I LLC (dba 55ip) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. Founded in 2016, the firm is a wholly owned subsidiary of 55 Institutional Partners LLC, ultimately owned by JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM). 55ip provides sub-advisory and trade list delivery services to institutions, which include other RIAs.

Part of Deutsche Börse AG, ISS STOXX GmbH is a German fast-growing financial intelligence company and a leader in the modernization of investment management. The company is based in Eschborn, Germany. Qontigo, the company's main product, offers a range of services including risk analysis tools, portfolio construction tools, and market-defining index construction. Qontigo's offerings include asset class indices, wealth management technology, factor indices, and ESG-X factor indices. Founded in 2019, the company is led by CEOs Frank Prasse, Gary Retelny, and Marc Robert-Nicoud.