Andrew F. St. Pierre

Founded in 2005, Merestone Capital Management LLC is a hedge fund manager located in Boston, Massachusetts. The firm is a subsidiary of GID Hedge Fund Holdings LLC which is principally owned by Windsor Advisers Securities LLC, Andrew St. Pierre and John Garofalo. They provide investment advisory services and portfolio management on a discretionary basis to private pooled investment vehicles and a separately managed account.

Founded by Jason Hammerman in 2001, Hammerman Capital Management LLC is a hedge fund manager located in Lafayette, California.

Boston-based John Hancock Advisers, Inc. (JHA) is the mutual fund affiliate of John Hancock Financial Services, Inc. and manages the John Hancock family of retail and institutional mutual funds, as well as separate equity portfolios for private accounts and retirement plans for individual and institutional investors. In 2003, Manulife Financial Corp. (TSX, NYSE: MFC) and John Hancock Financial Services, Inc. (NYSE: JHF) announced that they would merge and would thus create a leading global insurance franchise. The combined company will market products and services under multiple brands including John Hancock in the US and Manulife in Canada and the US.

Harvard Management Co., Inc. (HMC) is the investment arm of President & Fellows of Harvard College, which is owned by Harvard University, a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The firm was founded in 1974 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. HMC manages Harvard’s endowment, a dedicated and permanent source of funding that maintains the teaching and research mission of the University. HMC invests these funds as a single entity, the revenue from which contributes more than one-third of the University's annual operating budget.