Avinash G. Samudrala

Blum Capital Partners LP (Blum Capital) is an independent investment management firm headquartered in San Francisco, California. The firm was founded by Richard C. Blum in 1975. Blum Capital provides investment management services to various private, pooled investment funds. Investors in the funds include corporate and state/local pension and profit-sharing plans, trusts, endowments, foundations, charitable organizations and estates, corporations, limited partnerships, limited liability companies, banks and thrift institutions, and high net-worth individuals.

Restoration Hardware, Inc. engages in the retail and provision of home furnishings. It offers furniture, lighting, textiles, rugs, bathware, decor, outdoor, baby, child, and teen products. The company was founded by Stephen Gordon in 1980 and is headquartered in Corte Madera, CA.

General Atlantic LLC (General Atlantic) is a private equity firm founded in 1980 by Charles F. Feeney. The firm is headquartered in New York.

UBS Securities LLC is an investment bank and registered broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1998 as UBS Warburg LLC. They are a subsidiary of UBS Americas Holding LLC, ultimately held by UBS Group AG (SWX: UBSG, NYSE: UBS) in Switzerland. UBS Securities is a primary dealer in US Government securities and provides a full range of investment banking services which includes corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, trading and sales, fixed-income, equity research, private banking, underwriting and prime brokerage operations. The firm also provides advisory services and access to capital markets for corporate, institutional, intermediary and alternative asset management clients.

Founded in 2007, Moelis & Co. LLC is a registered broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm is a subsidiary of Moelis & Company (NYSE: MC), a global investment bank that provides financial advisory, capital raising and asset management services to corporations, institutions and governments. Moelis & Co. LLC provides an array of trading and execution services for their clients. They do not provide any internal research.

Duke University is an academic university that offers undergraduate, graduate and professional programs. It also has publications and research services. The university was founded in 1838 and is headquartered in Durham, NC.

Peter J. Solomon Co. provides investment advisory services. The company offers corporate finance, restructuring, private financings, merger and acquisitions services. It also offers services to the retail, wholesale, catalogue distribution, consumer products, healthcare and media industries. Peter J. Solomon Co. was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in New York City, NY

Bain & Co., Inc. provides management consulting services. It offers advisory services to the companies on their critical issues and opportunities: strategy, marketing, organization, operations, technology and mergers and acquisitions, across all industries and geographies. The company was founded in 1973 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

The Lek/Alcar Consulting Group, Inc. provides business strategy consulting services. It offers strategy, finance, marketing and sales, operations, and transaction services including business unit strategy, brand management, pricing, alliances and joint ventures, product development, corporate transformation, and operations design. It serves the defense, energy, health, building and construction, aerospace, media, retail, and telecommunications industries. The company was founded by Andrew Kutter in 1983 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

AlpInvest Partners BV (AlpInvest) is a private equity asset subsidiary AP BV, ultimately owned by The Carlyle Group, Inc founded in 2000. AlpInvest Partners BV is headquartered in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Investcorp International, Inc. specializes in the following business lines: corporate investment and technology investment in North America and Western Europe, real estate investment in the U.S., and global asset management. It offers investment products to institutional and individual clients, primarily in the Arabian Gulf. The company is headquartered in New York, NY.

Lion Capital LLP (Lion Capital) is a private equity firm founded in 2004 by Lyndon Lea, Robert Darwent and Neil A. Richardson. The firm is headquartered in London.

Castanea Partners Inc (Castanea Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 2001 by Robert A. Smith and Brian J. Knez. The firm is headquartered in Newton, Massachusetts.

Black Canyon Capital LLC (Black Canyon Capital) is a private equity subsidiary of Canyon Capital Advisors LLC founded in 2004 by Michael K. Hooks and Mark W. Lanigan. The firm is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

Hurley Capital LLC is an independent, SEC-registered financial advisory and investment management firm headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded by Charles Goldblum in 2003. Hurley Capital offers investment management services to affluent business owners and wealthy families and individuals.

Blue River Capital Advisors (India) LLP (Blue River Capital) is a private equity firm founded in 2005 by Muneesh Chawla and Shujaat Khan. The firm is headquartered in Gurgaon, India.

Part of Farringford NV, Trafigura India Pvt Ltd. is an Indian company that wholesales and distributes crude and petroleum products. The company is based in Mumbai, India.

Founded by Siddharth Parekh and Sumeet Nindrajog, Paragon Advisor Partners LLP is a private equity firm.

Front Porch Venture Partners LLC (Front Porch Venture) is a venture capital firm founded by Ethelborg Borg, Gregg M. Bordes and Nikin Shah in 2019. The firm is headquartered in Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina.

Yipit LLC offers data aggregation and analysis. The firm aggregates online data of publicly traded companies to derive operating performance. The company was founded by Vinicius Vacanti and Jim Moran in September 2008 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Breadless Corp. operates as an eating place. The American company was founded by Ahad Khan, LaTresha Howland, Ryan Eli Salter.

Quip NYC, Inc. designs, manufactures, and sells oral health care products. It offers electric toothbrush, toothpaste, and refillable floss. The company was founded by Simon Enever and William Thomas May and is headquartered in Brooklyn, NY.

Hero, Inc. Ltd. operates serviced apartments. The company was founded on April 18, 2017 and is headquartered in Knutsford, the United Kingdom.

Hero Health, Inc. provides medical advisory platform. Its application monitor and notifies users when it's pill time. The company is headquartered in New York, NY.

Brainchild Holdings LLC (Brainchild Holdings) is a venture capital firm founded in 2009 by Kalyan C. Vepuri. The firm is headquartered in Newtown, Pennsylvania.