Michael Patrick Abboud

Adams Capital Management, Inc. (ACM) is a venture capital firm founded in 1994 by Joel Adams. The firm is headquartered in Sewickley, Pennsylvania.

Piper Sandler & Co. (Broker) (PSC-Broker) is the full-service brokerage division of Piper Sandler & Co., a financial service firm headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota. They are a subsidiary of Piper Sandler Companies (NYSE: PIPR). The firm was founded in 1969 and previously known as Piper Jaffray & Co. They became Piper Sandler & Co. when Piper Jaffray Companies and Sandler O’Neill & Partners, L.P. merged to become Piper Sandler Companies in 2020. PSC-Broker provides brokerage and investment banking services to financial institutions, corporations and other financial investors. Their core focus sectors are Agriculture, renewables & cannabis, Business services, Chemicals & Materials, Consumer, Diversified industrials & services, Energy, Financial services, financial sponsors, Healthcare, and Technology.

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.

Founded in 1998, BOK Financial Securities, Inc. is an investment bank and full-service broker/dealer located in Tulsa, Oklahoma with additional offices in Oklahoma City, Dallas, Houston, Scottsdale, Arizona, Little Rock, Arkansas, Overland Park, Kansas, Albuquerque, New Mexico and Salt Lake City, Utah. The firm is a subsidiary of BOK Financial Corp. (NASDAQ: BOKF). BOSC specializes in public and municipal finance and private placements. They offer a variety of taxable and tax-free investment products including tax-exempt municipal bonds, U.S. Government securities, equity investments, mutual funds, tax-deferred annuities, self-directed IRAs, asset allocation programs, separately managed accounts (SMAs), fee-based brokerage accounts and hedging strategies. The firm's clients include individuals, corporations, government agencies, foundations, municipalities and institutions.

Digi-Key Corp. distributes electronic components. It also distributes semiconductors, discrete, electromechanical parts. Its products include audio products, batteries, cable assemblies, capacitors, computer & video accessories, connectors, crystals & oscillators, discrete semiconductor products and many more. The company was founded by Ronald A. Stordahl in 1972 and is headquartered in Thief River Falls, MN.

Trustco Bank Corp. (New York) (Investment Management) is the investment management division of Trustco Bank Corp. (NASDAQ: TRST), a commercial bank headquartered in Glenville, New York. Trustco Bank provides personalized investment management, trust administration and estate settlement to individuals, partnerships, corporations and governments of New York, Florida, Massachusetts, New Jersey and Vermont.

Southern Methodist University is a private university near the center of Dallas, SMU offers undergraduate, graduate, and professional programs through seven schools in the humanities and sciences, business, the performing, visual, and communication arts, engineering, education and human development, law, and theology.