Andrew P. Male

The California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) is a state-owned pension fund management firm headquartered in Sacramento, California. Founded in 1932, the firm has long been at the forefront of shareholder activism in the US. CalPERS provides retirement and health benefit services to private individuals and employers, specifically active, inactive and retired employees of California state and local public agencies. They routinely put pressure on companies to achieve better corporate performance corporate governance.

KeyBanc Capital Markets, Inc. is a registered investment bank and broker/dealer headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio. The firm was founded in 1983 and is a subsidiary of KeyCorp. (NYSE: KEY). KeyBanc Capital Markets provides investment banking, commercial lending, treasury management, derivatives, foreign exchange, equity and debt underwriting and trading and syndicated finance products and services to large corporations and middle-market companies.

Ernst & Young LLP engages in the provision of accounting, assurance, tax, transaction, and advisory services. It specializes in the actuarial, analytics and big data, cyber security, accounting compliance and reporting, center for board matters, international financial reporting standards, country tax advisory, global trade, tax accounting, and climate change and sustainability. The company was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

University of Miami (Florida) is a private research university with students from around the world that is focused on teaching and learning, the discovery of new knowledge, and service to the South Florida region and beyond. The university was founded in 1925 and it is headquartered in Coral Gables, FL.

University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center provides medical services. It operates medical, clinical and research centers including cancer, pediatrics, women's health, orthopedics spine, radiology, radiation oncology, neurosurgery, neuroscience, cardiology, cardiovascular surgery, organ transplantation and human genetics. The company was founded in 1866 and is headquartered in Cleveland, OH.

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.

Case Western Reserve University provides educational services. It offers a variety of undergraduate degree courses and graduate and professional options such as arts and sciences, dentistry, engineering, law, management, medicine, nursing, social work, and more. The firm also offers dual-degree programs. The company was founded in 1826 and is headquartered in Cleveland, OH.

Greater Cleveland Food Bank, Inc. supplies food used in local hot meal sites, shelters, and food pantries. It works closely with other Northeast Ohio hunger relief organizations, providing food and nonfood products to hunger centers administered by the Hunger Network of Greater Cleveland, the Catholic Hunger and Shelter Network, and the Salvation Army, among others. The company was founded in 1979 and is headquartered in Cleveland, OH.

The Association of the Bar of the City of New York is a voluntary association of lawyers and law students. The organization was founded in 1870 and it is headquartered in New York, NY

The French-American Chamber of Commerce (FACC) is a non-profit, member-driven organization founded in 1985. The non-profit company is based in Atlanta, GA. The FACC is part of a network of 18 French-American chambers representing over 5,000 companies nationwide in all major industries. The company is also a proud member of CCI International, an international network of 124 French chambers of commerce in 95 countries, representing over 37,000 members worldwide. The FACC's mission is to promote, support, and enhance business opportunities among the French-American business community throughout the Southeast of the United States. The company provides opportunities for members to network, connect, collaborate, and learn from one another through events and programs. The FACC is the main professional forum and business resource for French companies and their leaders doing business in and with the Southeast of the United States, and for companies in the Southeast of the United States doing business in and with France. The company also provides a range of trade services to their local members and to French businesses and entrepreneurs seeking to develop their business in the Southeast of the United States.

National Futures Association is a self-regulatory organization for the derivatives industry. The non-profit company is based in Chicago, IL. The company's focus is on providing innovative and effective regulatory programs. The company was founded by Leonid Adolfovich Melamed.

Harris Williams & Co. provides investment advisory services. It offers investment banking, sell-side mergers and acquisitions, capital raising, fairness opinion, and restructuring advisory services. The company was founded by H. Hiter Harris III and Christopher H. Williams in 1991 and is headquartered in Richmond, VA.

myVBO LLC provides consumer shopping price engine for online shoppers. It offers cloud-based solution for business that combines business reports, purchasing functionality and social media in one unified interface. The company was founded by Robert F. Wilkins in 2008 and is headquartered in Peterborough, NH.

BrandMuscle, Inc. develops marketing automation solutions that enable companies with distributed marketing channels to design and produce localized cross-media marketing campaigns. It offers local marketing platforms, local marketing execution and support, and local channel program management. The company was founded by Philip Alexander in 2000 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Central Hockey League operates a professional minor league hockey teams playing in small to medium-sized markets primarily in central and southwestern US states. The league, which was started in 1992, is managed and operated by WPHL, a subsidiary of Global Entertainment Corporation.

Rosetta Marketing Strategies Group LLC offers media research and interactive marketing services. The firm offers their services in healthcare, consumer products and retail, financial services, consumer technology, business to business, and travel and hospitality industries. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Hamilton, NJ.

Buffalo Games LLC manufactures board games, jigsaw puzzles, and card games. It offers portfolio of board, table and party games including titles such as watch ya mouth, brain games, the voting game, skee-ball, silly street, and plingpong. The firm also offers party and educational games for children. The company was founded by Paul A. Dedrick and Eden Scott Dedrick in 1986 and is headquartered in Buffalo, NY.

Pacon Corp. engages in converting and printing of art and education papers. It offers construction paper, drawing and sketch paper, poster board, presentation board (corrugate/foam), ruled handwriting paper, dual surface and fade-resistant paper products. The firm’s brands include Array, Art Street, Bordette, Creative Cut-ups, Decorol, Ecology, GoWrite, Tru-Ray, Riverside, and Peacock. It offers goods in sheeted packages, wire bound books, tape bound pads, and rolls. The company was founded by Jerry Van Hoof in 1951 and is headquartered in Appleton, WI.

Thayer Capital Partners LP is a private equity firm. The private company is based in Washington and has subsidiaries in Canada. The American company was founded by Fred V. Malek.

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.

Founded in 1978, State Street Global Advisors' Advanced Research Center is the research arm of State Street Global Advisors. The firm is a subsidiary of State Street Corp. (NYSE: STT), a leading provider of financial services to institutional investors including corporations, retirement plans, public funds, endowments, foundations and third-party distributors. They provide quantitative research and develop quantitative models for active strategies in equities, fixed-income, asset allocation and currencies

Morgan Stanley Investment Management, Inc. (MSIM) is an investment management firm headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1975 and is a subsidiary of Morgan Stanley Domestic Holdings, Inc., ultimately held by Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS). MSIM provides discretionary and non-discretionary investment management services and products to institutional clients and individual investors. The firm also advises clients as to the appropriate allocation of assets among multiple separate accounts and/or investment companies or other pooled vehicles that the firm advises.

JumpStart Ventures /Ohio/ (JumpStart Ventures) is a venture capital subsidiary of JumpStart, Inc. founded in 2004 by David Lasner. The firm is headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio.

Rural American Fund (Rural American Fund) is a private equity firm founded in 2007 by Thomas Karlson. The firm is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.