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William Blair & Co. LLC (William Blair) is a SEC-registered broker/dealer firm headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. The firm was founded by William McCormick Blair in 1935 and is a subsidiary of WBC Holdings LP. Until 1941, they were known as Blair, Bonner & Co. William Blair provides broking services to individual, institutional and issuing clients.

Robert W. Baird & Co., Inc. (Broker) (Baird-Broker) is the broker-dealer division of Robert W. Baird & Co., Inc., an investment bank and financial services company headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The firm was founded in 1919 and is ultimately owned by Baird Financial Group, Inc. Baird-Broker offers a full suite of comprehensive trading services for institutional clients.

Jefferies LLC is a global investment bank and institutional securities firm headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1962 and is a subsidiary of Jefferies Group LLC, ultimately held by Jefferies Financial Group, Inc. (NYSE: JEF). Jefferies provides corporate clients with research and execution services in equity, fixed income, and foreign exchange markets, as well as a full range of investment banking services such as underwriting, mergers and acquisitions, restructuring and recapitalization, and other advisory services, with all businesses operating in the Americas, Europe and Asia.

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.

KPMG LLP engages in the provision of audit, tax, and advisory services. It serves the banking and capital markets, building, construction and real estate, consumer and retail, energy, natural resources and chemicals, financial services, government and public sector, healthcare and life sciences, industrial manufacturing, insurance, media and entertainment, private equity, technology, telecommunications, and venture capital industries. The company was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

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.

Thoma Bravo LP(Thoma Bravo) is a private equity firm founded in 2008 by Carl Dee Thoma and Orlando Bravo. The firm is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

Northwestern University is a private institution founded in 1851 to serve the Northwest Territory, an area that now includes the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and parts of Minnesota. Northwestern has three campuses

H. C. Wainwright & Co. LLC (H. C. Wainwright) is a full-service broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1868 and is a subsidiary of HCWHC, Inc. H. C. Wainwright delivers industry insights and real-time execution to both public and private small and middle-sized global emerging market companies. With a focus on identifying buyers and sellers in illiquid and difficult to trade equities, the firm specializes in block trading and providing liquidity in these securities with as little market impact as possible.

Part of University of Illinois, The University of Illinois Foundation is an American company located in Champaign, IL, that functions as a foundation or endowment.

AGR Partners LLC (AGR Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 2012 by Ejnar Knudsen. The firm is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

Silvercrest Asset Management Group LLC (Silvercrest) is a SEC-registered investment advisor and wealth management firm headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded by Martin Jaffe in 2001 and is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Silvercrest LP. Silvercrest provides asset management and family office services to families and select institutional investors.

Canaan Management, Inc. (Canaan Management) is a venture capital firm founded in 1987 by Eric A. Young. The firm is headquartered in Westport, CT.

Prairie Capital LP (Prairie Capital) is a private equity firm founded in 1997 by Steve King and Bryan Daniels. The firm is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors LP (Credit Investments) (Kayne Anderson Capital (Credit Investment) is a private equity subsidiary of Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors LP founded in 1984. The firm is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

BMO Bank NA provides personal, business, and commercial banking products and financial advisory services. Its personal banking products and services include checking accounts; statement savings accounts, money market accounts, and certificates of deposit (CD); fixed and adjustable rate mortgages; credit cards, loans and lines of credit, and retirement accounts and investments; home equity, personal loans and lines of credit, and auto loans; and online banking, mobile banking, phone banking, payment and deposit, cross-border banking for Canadians, and switch kit services. The company was founded in 1882 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Victory Park Capital Advisors LLC (Victory Park Capital) is a private equity subsidiary of Jacob Capital LLC founded in 2007 by Richard Levy, Matthew Ray and Brendan Carroll. The firm is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois with additional offices in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and London.

Shell Rock Soy Processing LLC is a company that operates a soybean processing plant in northeast. The company is based in Shell Rock, IA. The plant is expected to benefit farmers in the area. The CEO of the company is Michael W. Kinley.

Times Bridge (Times Bridge) is a venture capital subsidiary of The Times of India Group founded in 2014. The firm is headquartered in Redwood city, California.

Gulf Investment Corp. GSC (GIC) is an investment management and holding firm headquartered in Safat, Kuwait. GIC was founded in 1983 and provides local and international investors with a range of financial services, such as asset management, financial services and utilities, manufacturing industries, and diversified GCC projects.

Saudi Arabian Investment Co. /Private Equity/ (Sanabil Investments) is a private equity firm, a subsidiary of Saudi Arabian Investment Co. founded in 2008. The firm is headquartered in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Hamilton Lane Advisors LLC (Hamilton Lane) is a private equity firm founded in May 1991. The firm is headquartered in Pennsylvania with additional offices located in London, Hong Kong, Rio de Janeiro, San Francisco, San Diego, New York, Ft. Lauderdale, Tel Aviv, Tokyo, Las Vegas and Seoul.

Spotlight Asset Group, Inc. (Spotlight) is an independent registered investment advisor headquartered in Oakbrook Terrace, Illinois. The firm was founded by Stephen “Steve” Greco in 2016. Spotlight provides portfolio management services to individuals as well as businesses, corporations, and other entities.

Northern Trust Investments, Inc. (Investment Management) (NTI-IM) is the asset management division of Northern Trust Investments, Inc., ultimately held by Northern Trust Corp. (NASDAQGS: NTRS), a multi-bank holding company established in 1889. The firm was founded in 1988 and headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. NTI-IM provides a wide range of discretionary and non-discretionary investment advisory and sub-advisory services to individual and institutional clients.

Breakwater Capital Management LLC is an independent hedge fund manager headquartered in Los Altos, California. The firm was founded by John Naporano and provides investment advice to high net-worth individuals and institutional investors.

Allstate Investments /Private Equity(Allstate Investments) is a private equity division of The Allstate Corporation. The firm is headquartered in Northbrook, Illinois.

Ocean Tomo LLC provides opinion, management and advisory services. It offers address financial expert testimony, valuation, technical insights, strategy, ratings, risk management, venture development, investments and transaction brokerage. The company was founded by James E. Malackowski and Andrew W. Carter in 2003 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Part of Reinsurance Group of America, Inc., RGA Investment Advisors LLC is a fiduciary and fee-only investment advisory company based in Stamford, CT. The private company looks for companies that treat shareholders, employees, and customers as stakeholders, with an ownership culture and a history of profitability. The company targets 25 total positions, with a standard deviation of 5, and their top 10 positions consistently account for around half of their portfolio. The company sometimes builds individual positions with more than one security, though they view this as one position, not two, for the purposes of their 25 position target. The company provides a quarterly newsletter that does not constitute as investment advice and adheres to a strict principle of client privacy. Founded in 2009, the company focuses on building long-term portfolios through deeply researched investments.

William Blair Investment Management LLC (William Blair) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. The firm was founded in 2014 and is a wholly-owned subsidiary of WBC Holdings LP. William Blair provides investment solutions to corporations, pension funds, governments and public agencies, endowments, foundations, Taft-Hartley plans, and other institutional investors across the globe.

Citigroup Global Markets, Inc. (Broker) (CGMI-Broker) is the broker/dealer division of Citigroup Global Markets, Inc., an investment bank headquartered in New York City with additional offices across the US. The firm was founded in 2004 and is a subsidiary of Citigroup Financial Products, Inc., ultimately held by Citigroup, Inc. (NYSE: C). CGMI-Broker covers all market capitalizations of the major global indices and provides macro and quantitative analysis of global markets and sector trends. Their core focus of the group is to help investing clients make informed decisions by providing value-added, independent, insightful analysis.

RCP Advisors LLC (RCP Advisors) is a private equity subsidiary of P10 Holdings, Inc. founded in 2001 by William Souder, Jeff Patrick Gehl, Thomas Patrick Danis Jr., Charlie Keydel Huebner and Timothy Jerome Danis. The firm is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

JB Investment Co., Ltd. (JB Investment) is a venture capital subsidiary of JB Financial Group Co., Ltd. Founded in 2012. The firm is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea.

KB Investment Co., Ltd. is a private equity/venture capital subsidiary of KB Financial Group, Inc. founded in 1990. The firm is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea.

BioProtect Ltd. designs, develops and commercializes balloon systems. Its patented technology allows for the design and manufacture of implantable biodegradable balloon products that support a wide range of clinical applications in oncology and surgery. The company’s balloon implant, indicated for prostate cancer patients. BioProtect was founded by Shaul Shohat, Adrian Paz and Abraham Domb in 2004 and is headquartered in Kfar Saba, Israel.

RM Global Partners Ltd (RMGLOBAL) is a venture capital subsidiary of RM Global Partners LLC founded in 2012 by Bruce E. Roberts. The firm is headquartered in Hertzliya, Israel.