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Artisan Partners LP (Artisan Partners) is a mutual fund manager and SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The firm was founded in 2009 by Andrew Ziegler and is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Artisan Partners Holdings LP, itself a subsidiary of Artisan Partners Asset Management, Inc. (NYSE: APAM). Artisan Partners serves as investment adviser to a variety of separately managed accounts, unregistered pooled investment vehicles, trustees of collective investment trusts, and to each series of Artisan Partners Funds, Inc. (Artisan Partners Funds) and Artisan Partners Global Funds plc (Artisan Partners Global Funds), an open-ended management investment company.

ASB Capital Management, Inc. (ASBCM) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland. The firm was founded in 1983 and is owned by Chevy Chase Trust Holdings LLC, ultimately owned by Chevy Chase Holdings LLC. ASBCM provides investment management services to qualified individual and institutional clients that include Taft-Hartley plans, pension and retirement programs, separate accounts, endowments and foundations, corporations and other types of accounts, and private investment vehicles.

Citigroup Global Markets, Inc. (Broker) (CGMI-Broker) is the broker/dealer division of Citigroup Global Markets, Inc., an investment bank headquartered in New York City with additional offices across the US. The firm was founded in 2004 and is a subsidiary of Citigroup Financial Products, Inc., ultimately held by Citigroup, Inc. (NYSE: C). CGMI-Broker covers all market capitalizations of the major global indices and provides macro and quantitative analysis of global markets and sector trends. Their core focus of the group is to help investing clients make informed decisions by providing value-added, independent, insightful analysis.

Raymond James & Associates, Inc. (RJA) is a registered broker-dealer headquartered in St. Petersburg, Florida. The firm was founded in 1962 and is a subsidiary of Raymond James Financial, Inc. (NYSE: RJF), a diversified holding company. RJA offers a full array of capital markets services, strategic advice and planning for institutional investors.

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLC provides assurance, tax and advisory services. Its services include audit and assurance, consulting, deals, human resources, legal, tax, and family business. The firm also offers accountability, risk management, structuring, mergers and acquisitions, and performance and process improvement. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Buffalo, NY.

Barclays Capital, Inc. is a registered broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1997 and is a subsidiary of Barclays Group US, Inc., ultimately owned by Barclays plc (LON: BARC) in Great Britain. Barclays Capital provides large corporate, government and institutional clients a full spectrum of prime brokerage services which includes equities and fixed income financing, OTC Clearing, Futures and Foreign Exchange Prime Brokerage and access to industry insights and analytics from their Strategic Consulting team.

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.

Sporos Bioventures, Inc. is a private biopharmaceutical company based in Houston, TX. Sporos Bioventures, Inc. aims to transform the drug development process by identifying novel disease mechanisms and strategically deploying talent, capital, and access to operational resources to catalyze the development of breakthrough medicines. Sporos' current pipeline is diversified across three business units and includes multiple clinical-stage candidates that are being investigated for the treatment of multiple indications in cancer and immune disease. The company provides centralized expertise, resources, and core infrastructure so that the portfolio companies can focus primarily on their research development programs. The company was founded by Peter Feinberg, Ronald A. DePinho, Jeno Gyuris, Joseph Kekst, Harold Levy, Alex M. Cranberg, Louis Feinberg, Michael S. Wyzga, Dana Levy, and the CEO is Stephen Rubino.

BB&T Securities LLC, doing business as BB&T Capital Markets, is the broker/dealer subsidiary of BB&T Corp. (NYSE: BBT). The firm is headquartered in Richmond, Virginia. They offer a full array of investment, trading and execution services to middle-market companies. BB&T Capital Markets' sales and trading arm is comprised of 2 groups: Debt Securities Sales & Trading and Equity Sales & Trading. The Debt Securities Sales & Trading group focuses on: (1) Government and agency securities (2) corporate bonds (3) municipal bonds (4) asset-backed securities (5) mortgage-backed securities (6) preferred securities and (7) money market desk (short-term securities including BB&T funding). The Equity Sales & Trading group focuses on: (1) institutional block execution services (2) institutional distribution of proprietary research (3) providing proprietary access to industry leading conferences and management teams (4) serving as a NASDAQ market maker for over 250 securities (5) stock buybacks including 10b-18 and 10b5-1 trading plans and (6) 144 stock sales, individual 10b5-1 trading plans (buy and sell) and employee cashless stock option programs. BB&T Capital Markets provides research coverage of the communications, defense and government services, energy, financial services, furnishings and consumer durables, healthcare, industrial services, retail/consumer durables and transportation services sectors.

ProTranslating, Inc. provides translation and interpreting services. It also offers linguistic solutions. The company was founded by Luis A. de la Vega and Maria Cristina de la Vega in 1973 and is headquartered in Coral Gables, FL.

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

Cornell University is an educational institution that offers undergraduate and post graduate programs. It was founded in 1865 and is based in Ithaca, 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.

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.

Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC is a registered broker-dealer subsidiary of Morgan Stanley Domestic Holdings, Inc., ultimately owned by Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) in the US. Headquartered in New York City, the firm was founded in 1987 and provides debt and equity services including underwriting, M&A advice, securities dealing and brokerage and trade execution. Their client base ranges from large global institutional investors to hedge funds at the cutting edge of innovation in the industry.

Jefferies LLC is a global investment bank and institutional securities firm headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1962 and is a subsidiary of Jefferies Group LLC, ultimately held by Jefferies Financial Group, Inc. (NYSE: JEF). Jefferies provides corporate clients with research and execution services in equity, fixed income, and foreign exchange markets, as well as a full range of investment banking services such as underwriting, mergers and acquisitions, restructuring and recapitalization, and other advisory services, with all businesses operating in the Americas, Europe and Asia.

Trivest Partners LP (Trivest Partners) is a private equity firm, a subsidiary of Trivest Partners Inc. founded in 1981 by Earl W. Powell. The firm is headquartered in Coral Gables, Florida.

Hydra Biosciences, Inc. develops pharmaceutical products. It is focused in major therapeutic areas, which include pain, inflammation, renal, anxiety, and pulmonary diseases. The company was founded by Laurie Bartlett Keating, Dean Y. Li, David E. Clapham, and Mark T. Keating in 2001 and is headquartered in Belmont, MA.

Venture Hive LLC is an American entrepreneurship education company. The private company was founded by Susan Amat and she has been the CEO since incorporation.

Signature MD, Inc. engages in the provision of support services to concierge medicine physicians. The firm offers conversion preparation, on-site management, presentations for potential patients, and public relations services. The company was founded by Matthew A. Jacobson in 2006 and is headquartered in Santa Monica, CA.

Florida First Partners is a joint venture between MILCOM Venture Partners and the Credit Suisse Customized Fund Investment Group founded in 2008. The firm is headquartered in Orlando, Florida.

3CInteractive Corp. provides enterprise solutions, mobile commerce, and marketing. The firm provides coupons, messaging, interactive web, wallet, web, and location based services. It specializes in mobile coupons, loyalty, app marketing, social sharing, medication adherence and compliance management. The company was founded by John L. Duffy, Mike FitzGibbon, and Mark Smith in 2007 and is headquartered in Boca Raton, FL.

Founded in 1999, Bulltick Capital Markets LP is a broker/dealer located in Miami, Florida. The firm offers financial products including sales, trading and investment banking services. Their client-base is comprised of the main financial institutions and qualified investors in Latin America as well as in the international financial community with investment interests in the region

DECA Dental Holdings LLC provides general, orthodontic, surgical, cosmetic and restorative dental services. The company was founded by Sulman Ahmed in 2008 and is headquartered in Dallas, TX.

EFG Asset Management (Americas) Corp. (EFG Americas) is a SEC-registered investment firm headquartered in Miami, Florida. The firm was founded in 2011 as EFG Asset Management (US) Corp. They are a wholly owned subsidiary of EFG International AG (SWX: EFGN) in Switzerland. EFG Americas offers investment advisory services primarily to non-US individuals, corporations, and other business entities.

Cane Investments LLC (Cane Investments) is a venture capital firm founded in 2003. The firm is headquartered in Irvington, New York.

Riverside Partners LLC /New York/ (Riverside Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 1988 by Bela Szigethy. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts with additional offices across the globe.

Part of FTI Consulting, Inc., FTI Consulting (SC), Inc. provides corporate consulting and strategic communication services. The company is based in New York, NY.

Concise Capital Management LP (Concise) is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in Miami, Florida. The firm was co-founded by Thomas Krasner and Glenn Koach in 2004. Concise provides investment advisory services to high-net-worth individuals, families, private investment funds and other institutions.

Houlihan Lokey Capital, Inc. is a registered broker/dealer headquartered in Los Angeles, California. The firm was founded in 1996 and they are a subsidiary of Houlihan Lokey, Inc. (NYSE: HLI). Houlihan Lokey Capital provides an array of trading and execution services for their clients. They also have the ability to serve as underwriter or bookrunner with respect to traditional debt and equity offerings, including leveraged loans and public offerings of debt, equity-linked, and equity securities.

Privet Fund Management LLC is a registered independent hedge fund manager headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. The firm was founded by Ryan J. Levenson in 2007. It manages and administers private investment funds for sophisticated wealthy investors.