Robert D. Kipps

KippsDeSanto & Co. engages in the provision of investment banking services. It offers mergers and acquisitions, private financing, and strategic conducting services. The firm focuses on the aerospace, defense, government technology solutions, and next generation information and technology. The company was founded by Robert D. Kipps, Marc B. Marlin, and Kevin P. DeSanto in May 2007 and is headquartered in Tysons Corner, VA.

Association for Corporate Growth, Inc. is a global organization founded in 1954 by Kenneth S. Berryman and David H. Brenner. The non-profit company is based in Chicago, IL and has subsidiaries in the United Kingdom, Netherlands, Canada, and the United States. The company's mission is to drive middle-market growth and it serves 90,000 investors, executives, lenders, and advisers to growing middle-market companies. The company's core focus is on middle-market M&A, with more than 25 years of sell-side and buy-side advisory experience, closing more than 200 transactions with a combined value of more than $1 billion. The company also publishes Middle Market Growth, the official publication of the Association for Corporate Growth, which includes a print magazine, website, weekly e-newsletter, and daily newsfeed. The CEO of the company since 2019 is Brent A. Baxter.

Information Systems Laboratories, Inc. provides technology solutions from scientific research to systems development and MIL-SPEC manufacturing. Its solutions include acoustic signal processing, sensor technology and exploitation, surveillance, aeronautical and space systems, nuclear systems analysis, hazardous material management, and technology risk management, custom manufacturing, information technology, cyber security, and contract vehicles. The company engages in research and analysis, hardware design and development, software and systems engineering, and specialty fabrication for defense and energy customers worldwide. Information Systems Laboratories was founded by John Don Carlos in April 1982 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

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.