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Public Ventures LLC is a registered broker-dealer headquartered in Dallas, Texas. The firm was founded by Christopher Marlett and Anthony DiGiandomenico in 1997. They are a wholly-owned subsidiary of MDB Capital Holdings LLC. Public Ventures offers Go-to-Market Strategy, Market Assessments, Revenue Generation and Product Strategy for technology companies that targets the Public Sector.

Prepared Response Inc. provides emergency preparedness, crisis management and homeland security solutions. The firm's primary markets include education, corporate, transportation systems, hospital, sports stadiums, hospitality, industrial facilities, museums, and critical infrastructure. The company was founded by Sterling Griffin in September 2000 and is headquartered in Kirkland, WA.

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.

University of Washington functions as a College/University. The company is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

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.

University of Southern California is a private research university that mainly offers undergraduate, graduate & other higher education. The university was founded in 1880 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

Founded in 1986, Merriman Capital, Inc. is an SEC-registered broker/dealer and investment banking firm headquartered in San Francisco. The firm is a subsidiary of Merriman Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: MERR), a financial services firm that focuses on fast-growing companies and their institutional investors. Merriman provides advisory and investment banking, equity research, institutional services, corporate services and venture services primarily to corporate clients. Merriman Capital provides research, brokerage and trading services primarily to institutional clients. The firm offers a full range of specialized and integrated services including: equity research, specialized trade execution, equity capital markets, corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, sales and trading, market making, corporate and venture services, restructurings and strategic advisory services. Merriman Capital employs bottom-up, fundamental analysis of small-cap companies in select industries including clean technology, healthcare, technology and consumer/Internet/media. The firm also has expertise in emerging markets, with emphasis on emerging markets in China. Merriman Capital is known to engage in shareholder activist investment strategies. Merriman Capital is a member of the NASD, the SIPC and FINRA. The firm serves as an introducing broker/dealer for Pershing LLC. They do not hold or maintain funds or securities or provide clearing services for other broker/dealers.

Part of Sodexo SA, Universal Services, Inc. provides catering services. The private company is based in New Orleans, LA.

RedChip Independent is an investment research firm located in Maitland, Florida. The firm is a division of RedChip Companies, Inc. and their ultimate parent is ProManage, Inc., an advanced software development process management and consulting firm located in Burlingame, Massachusetts. RedChip provides fundamental research on small-cap companies. They seek to identify undervalued and underfollowed small-cap companies that are profitable or near term profitable and have effective management teams, mass appeal, growing sales and improving margins. After considering these factors and looking at expectations implied by the stock's current price, RedChip issues a strong buy, buy, speculative buy, hold or sell rating. The rating combines the firm's projection of the stock's performance, their assessment of the company's financial strength, their confidence in the company's management team and their confidence in their forecast.

Klein, DeNatale, Goldner, Cooper, Rosenlieb & Kimball LLP provides legal services. The firm's practice areas include agriculture, business, commercial litigation, employment counseling, litigation, estate, tax planning, oil, gas, and real estate. The company is headquartered in Bakersfield, CA.

Loeb & Loeb LLP operates as a multiservice law firm. It specializes in practice areas such as advanced media and technology, bankruptcy, restructuring and creditors' rights, capital markets, corporate, employment and labor, entertainment, finance, intellectual property, litigation, private equity, real estate, tax, and trusts and estates. The company was founded by Edwin Loeb and Joseph Loeb in 1909 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

Swedish Health Services provides health care services. The company was founded in 1910 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

Part of Bristol Bay Native Corp., Peak Oilfield Service Co. provides construction, transportation, and hauling services. The private company is based in Anchorage, AK. The company was founded by Kirby B. McDonald. Peak Oilfield Service was acquired by Bristol Bay Native Corp. from Nabors Industries Ltd. on December 31, 2013 for $135.50 million.

Beacon Rock Research LLC is an independent investment research firm located in Portland, Oregon. They focus on precious, base metals and substitutes, oil and gas, alternative energy, communications and human resources. They utilize a mediasite recorder whenever possible to help companies explain their opportunities first-hand without the filter of analysts, brokers and the investment media.

The State Bar of California operates as an official attorney licensing agency. The non-profit company is based in San Francisco, CA. Elizabeth Rindskopf Parker has been the CEO of the company since 2015.

Blaylock Beal Van LLC (BBV) is a full service minority-owned investment banking and financial services company headquartered in New York City. The firm was formerly known as Blaylock Robert Van LLC. In 2007, Blaylock Robert Van LLC was formed when Blaylock & Co., an investment bank founded in 1993 by Ronald E. Blaylock, and Robert Van Securities, a financial services firm founded in 1991 by Eric V. Standifer joined forces. In January 2014, Bernard B. Beal, Founder and CEO of M.R. Beal & Co., joined the firm as Chairman, and the firm was renamed Blaylock Beal Van LLC. BBV focuses on the execution of domestic and international equity securities and baskets. Their domestic equity services include listed trading, NASDAQ trading, program trading, direct market access, algorithmic and dark pool access and transition management. Their international equity services include 24 hour global trading, FIX-enabled direct market access and individual stocks and baskets. BBV implements trading strategies globally through a network of brokerage relationships in all European, Latin American and African markets. They specialize in direct execution and step-out trades of international equities. The firm's fixed-income unit focuses on the competitive, cost-effective trading of U.S. Treasury bills, notes, bonds and agency securities.

Stellar Holdings, Inc. is a real estate firm. The company is a value-added developer and investor and it focuses on niche opportunities and creative partnerships. It was founded by Lars H. Jonsson and Laurie McDonald Jonsson in 1989 and is headquartered in Kirkland, WA.

The Oregon Bankers Association is a full-service trade association that represents state and national commercial banks, savings banks, and trust companies. The non-profit company is based in Salem, OR, and the CEO of the company is Linda Wilhelms Navarro. The association was established in 1905 and offers quality training, information, and educational services to its members. The association promotes and integrates diversity, equity, and inclusion across its organization and the banking industry it serves.

Providence Health & Services provides healthcare services. It offers assisted and independent living; express care; hospice and home health care; hospitals and medical centers; nursing homes and traditional care; PACE and adult day programs; providence medical group; and supportive housing. The company was founded in 1859 and is headquartered Renton, WA.

Vubiquity, Inc. provides multiplatform content video services. Its services include subscription gaming, digital storefront, metadata management, provisioning, content licnsing and aggregation, media analytics and intelligence, bandwidth optimization, and localization. The company was founded by Ramanarayan V. Potarazu in 1988 and is headquartered in Reston, VA.