Charles James Thomas

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.

Founded in 2007 by David Stemerman, Conatus Capital Management LP is a hedge fund manager located in Greenwich, Connecticut.

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.

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.

Alumni Association of the University of Virginia assists and encourages relation between alumni and students. The company was founded on July 4, 1838 and is headquartered in Charlottesville, VA.

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.

Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC (GS&Co.) is a securities brokerage firm headquartered in New York City. Founded in 1927, the firm is a subsidiary of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE: GS). GS&Co. provides services to help hedge funds manage risk, monitor portfolios, maintain liquidity and build their businesses. They offer clients access to global equity and derivatives markets, as well as foreign exchange, commodities, European Lefts, rates and credit across the Americas, Europe and Asia. The firm proactively monitors capital markets, searching for pockets of liquidity and news that may require changes to those strategies. Integration with the Goldman Sachs network gives clients access to the firm's sectored block trades and their insights into price discovery. Their electronic trading program provides clients with tools to manage their trades from pre-trade analytics to post-trade analysis.

HMC Virginia Inc (HMC Virginia) is a venture capital subsidiary of Harbert Management Corp founded in 1993 by Wayne L. Hunter & William W. Brooke. The firm is headquartered in Richmond, Virginia.

Barclays Capital, Inc. is a registered broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1997 and is a subsidiary of Barclays Group US, Inc., ultimately owned by Barclays plc (LON: BARC) in Great Britain. Barclays Capital provides large corporate, government and institutional clients a full spectrum of prime brokerage services which includes equities and fixed income financing, OTC Clearing, Futures and Foreign Exchange Prime Brokerage and access to industry insights and analytics from their Strategic Consulting team.

UBS Investment Bank provides investment banking and securities brokerage services. Its clients include institutional and corporate clients, intermediaries, governments, and hedge funds. The firm also provides merger and acquisition advisory, private placement, investment research, foreign exchange, equity, and leverage finance advisory services. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

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.

TemperPack Technologies, Inc. manufactures packaging solutions for temperature sensitive goods. It specializes in sustainable packaging, cold chain shipping, e-commerce food, and life sciences shipping. The company was founded by Brian Powers, Charles-Alexandre Vincent, and James McGoff in 2015 and is headquartered in Richmond, VA.

Dentons US LLP provides legal services. The firm provides its services for businesses, nonprofit organizations and individuals. Its practice areas include civil, common, Sharia and Chinese law. The company is headquartered in New York, NY.

Cornell University is an educational institution that offers undergraduate and post graduate programs. It was founded in 1865 and is based in Ithaca, NY.

BB&T Securities LLC, doing business as BB&T Capital Markets, is the broker/dealer subsidiary of BB&T Corp. (NYSE: BBT). The firm is headquartered in Richmond, Virginia. They offer a full array of investment, trading and execution services to middle-market companies. BB&T Capital Markets' sales and trading arm is comprised of 2 groups: Debt Securities Sales & Trading and Equity Sales & Trading. The Debt Securities Sales & Trading group focuses on: (1) Government and agency securities (2) corporate bonds (3) municipal bonds (4) asset-backed securities (5) mortgage-backed securities (6) preferred securities and (7) money market desk (short-term securities including BB&T funding). The Equity Sales & Trading group focuses on: (1) institutional block execution services (2) institutional distribution of proprietary research (3) providing proprietary access to industry leading conferences and management teams (4) serving as a NASDAQ market maker for over 250 securities (5) stock buybacks including 10b-18 and 10b5-1 trading plans and (6) 144 stock sales, individual 10b5-1 trading plans (buy and sell) and employee cashless stock option programs. BB&T Capital Markets provides research coverage of the communications, defense and government services, energy, financial services, furnishings and consumer durables, healthcare, industrial services, retail/consumer durables and transportation services sectors.

Evercore Wealth Management LLC (Evercore Wealth) is a SEC-registered investment advisor and wealth management firm headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded by Jeffrey Maurer and Christopher Zande in 2008. They are majority owned by Evercore Partners Services East LLC, an indirect subsidiary of Evercore, Inc. (NYSE: EVR). Evercore Wealth provides discretionary and non-discretionary investment advisory services to high-net-worth multi-generational families, executives, business owners, foundations, endowments, and other private clients. They also provide services to a registered investment company, the Evercore Equity Fund (EWMCX), and investment sub-advisory services to an insurance dedicated fund, the SALi Multi-Series Fund, LP.

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.

Angelo, Gordon & Co LP (Private Equity Group) (Angelo, Gordon & Co LP) is a private equity subsidiary of Angelo Gordon & Co. LP founded in 1988 by John Michael Angelo and Michael Laurence Gordon. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Founded in 2009 by Antonio Cacorino and Fredrick Chapey, StormHarbour Securities LP is an independent full-service broker/dealer headquartered in New York City with additional offices in London, Singapore, Hong Kong and Geneva. The firm is a subsidiary of StormHarbour Partners LP. StormHarbour Securities focuses on distribution, client solutions and capital markets and has extensive experience in the fixed-income credit and alternatives markets. Their services include execution, sourcing/distribution, primary and secondary, reverse inquiry and buy-backs and full asset/capital structure coverage. StormHarbour Securities' clients include hedge funds/other asset managers, banks/insurance companies, pensions. endowments, SWFs, GSEs and other international financial groups. StormHarbour Securities' credit products include: investment grade corporates, high yield, distressed, convertibles and emerging markets. Their securitized products include: ABS (vanilla and exotic), RMBS (prime, alt-A and sub-prime), CMBS, CDOs, CLOs and synthetic structures.

aPriori Capital Partners LP (aPriori Capital Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 1985 by Susan C. Schnabel and Colin Taylor. The firm is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

Mount Kellett Capital Management LP (Mount Kellett) is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded by Mark McGoldrick and Jason Maynard in 2008. Mount Kellett provides investment management and related services to private pooled investment vehicles (Mount Kellett Funds) and managed accounts for institutional investors.

OCM Distressed Debt Group (OCM) is an private equity firm founded in 1995 by Bruce Allen Karsh and Sheldon Michael Stone. The firm is an operating division of Oaktree Capital Management LP. The firm is headquartered in Los Angeles.

Questa Capital Management LLC (Questa Capital) is venture capital firm founded in 2016 by Ryan Drant . The firm headquartered in Washington, District of Columbia.

Multiplier Capital LLC (Multiplier Capital) is a private equity and venture capital firm founded in 2012 by Ray C. Boone, Ezra M. Friedberg and Kevin P. Sheehan. The firm is headquartered in Washington, District of Columbia.

James River Capital Corp. (James River) is an independent hedge fund manager headquartered in Manakin Sabot, Virginia. The firm was founded in 1986 as KP Futures Management Corp. and served as the alternative investment department of Kidder, Peabody & Co., Inc. They became an independent investment firm in 1995, when Paul Saunders and Kevin Brandt, the two senior officers in the department, acquired the business from Kidder, concurrent with the acquisition of Kidder by Paine Webber. James River sponsors and serves as discretionary investment adviser to private investment funds that are currently offered only to high net-worth, financially sophisticated institutional and individual investors.

Brown Advisory LLC is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland. The firm is a subsidiary of Brown Advisory Management LLC and their ultimate parent is Brown Advisory, Inc. The firm was founded and launched in 1993 as an investment management division of Alex. Brown & Sons, a Baltimore-based investment bank founded in 1800. In 1998, they became independently owned through an employee-led buyout. Brown Advisory provides investment management services to individuals and institutions.

JPMorgan Securities LLC (JPMS) is a securities brokerage firm headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1985 and is a subsidiary of JPMorgan Broker-Dealer Holdings, Inc., ultimately held by JPMorgan Chase & Co., Inc. (NYSE: JPM). JPMS provides research on fixed income, credit, derivatives, emerging markets, foreign exchange, structured finance, technical analysis and bond indices. Their equity analysts cover equities throughout North America, EMEA, Asia/Pacific and the emerging markets. The firm's fixed income team formulates trading and portfolio recommendations for investors in global bonds and other fixed-income markets based on valuations, analytics and market dynamics.

Lazard Group LLC provides financial advisory, asset management, and other financial services. The firm offers services related to mergers and acquisitions, strategic advisory, middle market advisory, capital markets and capital structure advisory, sovereign advisory, restructuring, and private fund advisory. The company was founded in 1840 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Portfolio Advisors LLC (Portfolio Advisors) is a private equity firm founded in 1994. The firm is headquartered in Darien, Connecticut with additional offices in Dallas, London, Zurich, Hong Kong and Singapore.