Stephen Smith

The Cypress Funds LLC (Cypress) is an independent registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in Los Angeles, California. The firm was founded by Robert A. Day in 1969. Cypress provides investment advice to investment funds.

Strategic Global Advisors LLC (SGA) is a SEC-registered investment advisor and holding firm headquartered in Newport Beach, California. The firm was founded in 2005 by Cynthia Tusan. SGA offers discretionary investment advisory services to institutional investors as well as to certain legacy high net worth individuals, trusts and estates.

Founded in 2006, Tradewinds Global Investors LLC is a registered investment advisor headquartered in Los Angeles. The firm was created through a reorganization of their affiliate, NWQ Investment Management Co. They are a subsidiary of Nuveen Investments, Inc. Tradewinds provides investment advisory services to a wide variety of clients, including corporate and multi-employer plans, charitable organizations, educational institutions, individuals, high net-worth individuals, trust accounts, estates, corporations and/or other business entities, banks and thrift institutions, insurance companies, governments and municipalities. They provide investment sub-advisory services to affiliated and unaffiliated open-end and closed-end investment companies, CITs and other non-US pooled investment vehicles, including UCITS funds. Tradewinds also provides investment advisory services to a number of private investment funds which are generally organized as Delaware statutory trusts.