Rachel Sylwester

Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC (Credit Suisse Securities USA) is the broker/dealer division of Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, an investment banking company headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1998 and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Credit Suisse (USA), Inc., ultimately owned by Credit Suisse Group AG (SWX: CSGN) in Switzerland. Credit Suisse Securities USA offers a suite of equities, solutions and credit products and services which includes global securities sales, trading and execution, prime brokerage and comprehensive investment research. Their clients include financial institutions, corporations, governments, institutional investors, such as pension funds and hedge funds, and private individuals around the world.

Pruco Life Insurance Co. is a life insurance company, which provides financial planning services. It offers individual annuities, term, variable, and universal life insurance. The company was founded in 1971 and is headquartered in Newark, NJ.

Alpine Investors is a private equity firm founded in 2001 by Graham Weaver. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

JPMorgan Securities LLC (JPMS) is a securities brokerage firm headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1985 and is a subsidiary of JPMorgan Broker-Dealer Holdings, Inc., ultimately held by JPMorgan Chase & Co., Inc. (NYSE: JPM). JPMS provides research on fixed income, credit, derivatives, emerging markets, foreign exchange, structured finance, technical analysis and bond indices. Their equity analysts cover equities throughout North America, EMEA, Asia/Pacific and the emerging markets. The firm's fixed income team formulates trading and portfolio recommendations for investors in global bonds and other fixed-income markets based on valuations, analytics and market dynamics.

ProcessUnity, Inc. provides on-demand risk management software solutions to small, medium, and large enterprises in various industries. The firm solutions include Service Delivery Risk Management that captures and standardizes product catalogs, and optimizes client service delivery; financial close process management and policy and procedure management, a cloud-based solution for administering policy lifecycles, certifying communications, assessing performance, and managing exceptions and issues. The company was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Waltham, MA.

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.

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.

Deloitte & Touche LLP engages in the provision of audit, advisory, financial advisory, tax, and consulting services. The company was founded on March 7, 1995 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Princeton University Investment Co. (dba PRINCO) is the investment management arm of Princeton University, a private Ivy League research university headquartered in Princeton, New Jersey. PRINCO was founded in 1987 and manages Princeton University’s Endowment through a global network of over 65 investment firms. The purpose of the Endowment is to provide steady support for the University’s current and future operating needs, while preserving real value for future generations. This mission requires an expected return that exceeds the sum of the annual rate of spending and University inflation.

Carson Group, Inc. provides financial advisory services. It offers coaching and partnership services to advisor firms and straightforward financial advice to the investing public. The company was founded by Ronald Lloyd Carson Jr. and is headquartered in Omaha, NE.

Broadway Technology LLC engages in the provision of software solutions. It specializes in scalable high-performance distributed computing to build advanced trading systems for global financial institutions. The company was founded by Tyler Moeller and Joshua Walsky in 2003 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Ara Advisers LLC (Ara Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 2017 by Charles Reed Cherington, Troy W Thacker and George Churchill Yong. The firm is headquartered in Houston, Texas.

Part of ProcessUnity, Inc., ProcessUnity Holdings LLC functions as an investment holding company. The company is based in Concord, MA. The CEO of the company is Todd Stone.

Carson Group Holdings LLC provides wealth management services to financial advisors and clients. The company was founded by Ronald Lloyd Carson, Jr. and is headquartered in Omaha, NE.

BofA Securities, Inc. is a registered broker-dealer subsidiary of NB Holdings Corp., ultimately held by Bank of America Corp. (NYSE: BAC). Headquartered in New York, the firm was founded in 2015 and offers trade execution, trading or brokerage services to institutional clients.

Nomura Securities International, Inc. (NSI) is a registered broker/dealer headquartered in New York City and was founded in 1969. The firm is a division of Nomura Holding America, Inc. and their ultimate parent is Nomura Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: NMR, TYO: 8604, AMS: 8604). NSI provides securities brokerage services, as well as asset management, domestic retail, global markets, global investment banking and global merchant banking services. The firm's fixed-income business consists of bond sales and trading, origination and product supply for securitization deals and real estate-focused asset finance operations (in cooperation with Investment Banking). In the equity markets, NSI offers sales and trading of domestic and foreign stocks on a global basis, primarily for institutional investors.

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.

Part of The National Academies of Science, the National Academy of Engineering operates as a professional membership organization. The company is based in Washington.

Hippo Enterprises, Inc. operates as a freight shipping and trucking company. The company was founded by Asaf Wand and Eyal Navon in 2015 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

Lake Partners Strategy Consultants, Inc. provides consulting services. The company was founded by Joe Barer in 1997 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

Capital Research & Management Co., dba Capital World Investors (CWI), is an investment advisor headquartered in Los Angeles, California. The firm is a division of Capital Research & Management Co., which is ultimately owned by the Capital Group of Companies. In 2013, The Capital Group restructured their equity investment group and divided the group based on specific investment objectives rather than around particular products or clients. The investment group is now divided into three independent equity divisions, Capital World Investors, Capital Research Global Investors and Capital International Investors. Each division has the flexibility to manage any of the investment objectives or any of the investment vehicles the Capital Group offers. CWI is the retail entity of the Capital Group.

Veritas Capital Fund Management LLC (Veritas Capital) is a private equity firm founded in 1992 by Robert McKeon and Ramzi Musallam. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Pruco Life Insurance Company of New Jersey sells life insurance and annuities. It sells variable and fixed annuities, universal life insurance, variable life insurance and term life insurance primarily through affiliated and unaffiliated distributors in New Jersey and New York only. The firm markets individual life and annuity products through various third party channels, such as independent financial planners, general agencies, producer groups, banks and broker-dealers. The company was founded in 1982 and is headquartered in Newark, NJ.

Gal Ventures LLC (Gal Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2017 by Haim Blecher. The firm is headquartered in Princeton, New Jersey.

Girls, Inc. provides educational programs for girls. It offers healthy living, academic enrichment and support and life skill instruction. The company was founded in 1864 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

National Safety Council provides individual and family services. The firm focuses on the preventable injuries and deaths occur due to use of cell phone while driving, teen driving, workplace safety, prescription painkiller use, and safety in the community. The company was founded in 1913 and is headquartered in Itasca, IL.

Impresa Management LLC(Impresa Management) is a Private Equity/Venture Capital firm, a subsidiary of Devonshire Investors LLC founded in 1946.The firm is headquartered in Boston.

Part of TIAA Board of Governors, Teachers Insurance & Annuity Association of America is a company that provides retirement planning, asset and investment management services. The company is based in New York, NY. The company was founded in 1918 by Andrew Carnegie. The CEO is Thasunda Brown Duckett.

Consensys Ventures LLC (Consensys Ventures) is a venture capital subsidiary of Consensys Software Inc founded in 2017. The firm is headquartered in Brooklyn, New York.

Blockchange Management LLC (Blockchange Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2017 by Eric Kenneth Seiff, Caroline Kassie and Gavin Wood. The firm is headquartered in New York.