Jim A. Allred

Horsley Bridge Partners LLC (HBP) is a private equity firm, founded in 1983 by Phillip Horsley and Gary Bridge. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California with additional offices in London and Beijing.

The Stephens Group LLC (Stephens Group) is an independent Private Equity firm founded in 2006 by W. R. Stephens and Elizabeth Stephens Campbell. The firm is headquartered in Little Rock, Arkansas.

Bessemer Investment Management LLC (BIM) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 2001 and is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Bessemer Trust Co., NA (BTNA), a national banking association, which in turn, is a wholly owned subsidiary of The Bessemer Group, Inc. (BGI). BIM provides advisory services to investment companies and banking institutions.

Systematic Financial Management LP (SFM) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Teaneck, New Jersey. The firm was founded by Joe K. Joshi in 1982 and they are a subsidiary of Titan NJ LP Holdings LLC, ultimately owned by Affiliated Managers Group, Inc. (NYSE: AMG). SFM provides investment management services to institutional investors and private clients.

Truist Securities, Inc. is a registered broker-dealer headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. The firm was founded in 1894 as SunTrust Robinson Humphrey, Inc. In 2020, the firm was renamed following the integration of SunTrust Robinson Humphrey and BB&T Capital Markets. The firm is a subsidiary of Truist Financial Corp. (NYSE: TFC) and is an active market maker in equity and fixed-income products. Truist Securities delivers a comprehensive range of strategic advisory, capital raising, risk management, and financing solutions, as well as a dynamic suite of sales, trading, and research services in both fixed-income and equity. Their strategies are carefully tailored to meet the needs and vision of their clients.

EnCap Investments LP (EnCap Investments) is a private equity firm founded in 1988 by Gary Peterson and Robert Zorich and The firm is headquartered in Houston, Texas.

Founded in 2009, ABN AMRO Securities (USA) LLC is an SEC-registered broker/dealer located in New York City. The firm is a subsidiary of ABN AMRO Holding USA LLC and their ultimate parent in Netherlands-based ABN AMRO Group NV. ABN AMRO Securities (USA) LLC is a member of FINRA.

Southern Methodist University is a private university near the center of Dallas, SMU offers undergraduate, graduate, and professional programs through seven schools in the humanities and sciences, business, the performing, visual, and communication arts, engineering, education and human development, law, and theology.

Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. is a broker/dealer located in New York City. The firm provides a comprehensive range of equity execution services exclusively to institutional clients worldwide. Their clients include private banks, mutual funds, hedge funds, independent asset managers and investment advisors and other brokers.

Founded in 1999 by the late Thomas Watson, Janney Montgomery Scott LLC (JMS) is a full-service financial services firm and registered broker/dealer headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The firm is a subsidiary of Independence Square Properties LLC, itself a subsidiary of Penn Mutual Insurance Co. Their ultimate parent is Harleysville Mutual Insurance Co. JMS is a member of the NYSE, the SIPC and FINRA. The firm provides comprehensive financial advice and services to individual, corporate and institutional investors. Their primary coverage verticals include the consumer, technology, financials and infrastructure sectors.

The Illinois State Board of Investment (ISBI) is a pension fund manager headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. They manage the defined benefit assets of the State Employees’ Retirement System, the General Assembly Retirement System, the Judges’ Retirement System of Illinois, the Illinois Power Agency, as well as the State of Illinois Deferred Compensation Plan.

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

Founded in 1962, Raymond James Financial, Inc. (NYSE: RJF) is a diversified holding company headquartered in St. Petersburg, Florida. The firm provides services to individuals, corporations and municipalities through their wholly-owned subsidiaries: Raymond James & Associates, Raymond James Financial Services and Raymond James Ltd. Raymond James operates through eight segments: Private Client Group (PCG); Capital Markets; Asset Management; Raymond James Bank (RJ Bank); Emerging Markets; Securities Lending; Proprietary Capital; and Other. The Private Client Group segment provides securities transaction and financial planning services to client accounts through the branch office systems of the company's subsidiaries. The Capital Markets segment's activities consist primarily of equity and fixed income products and services. The Asset Management segment provides asset management services for individual investment portfolios and mutual funds. The RJ Bank segment provides corporate, residential and consumer loans, as well as Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. insured deposit accounts, to clients of the company's broker-dealer subsidiaries and to the general public. The Emerging Markets segment operates securities brokerage, investment banking, asset management and equity research businesses. The Securities Lending segment conducts its business through the borrowing and lending of securities from and to other broker-dealers, financial institutions and other counterparties. The Proprietary Capital segment consists of the company's principal capital and private equity activities, including various direct and third-party private equity and merchant banking investments. Raymond James' capital markets reach within the financial institutions segment focuses on community and regional banks and thrifts including equity research, sales, trading and investment banking resources and services. Raymond James is one of the largest research organizations in the brokerage industry and serves institutional investors domestically and abroad. The firm's capital markets activities are based on insightful, timely and comprehensive equity research. They publish research on over 1,000 companies in their core industries. Raymond James seeks attractive niches within broader industries and then covers these sectors deeply to develop differentiated sector expertise and relationships. Although their focus is mid- and small-cap companies, their coverage includes large, medium and small companies across each sector. Raymond James' Institutional Trading division is organized into 3 specialty departments: Sales Trading, Principal trading and Agency Trading. Their Sales Trading division covers over 800 domestic and 1,300 international financial institutions throughout North America and Europe. The firm's Principal Trading division consists of industry-focused teams and their OTC Principal Trading department makes markets in over 680 domestic stocks, 85% of which are covered by Raymond James Institutional Research department. Their Agency Trading department services the trading needs of over 5,500 financial advisors located in 2,500 retail offices across the US.

Wells Fargo Securities LLC (WFS) is the broker/dealer subsidiary of EVEREN Capital Corp., ultimately owned by Wells Fargo & Co. (NYSE: WFC). Headquartered in New York, WFS delivers a comprehensive suite of banking, capital markets and advisory solutions, such as a full complement of sales, trading and research capabilities, to corporate, government and institutional clients.

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.

AmplifAI Solutions, Inc. provides frontline supervisors and employees with personalized performance dashboards, data-driven coaching and recognition, performance-driven micro-learnings and engagement-enhancing gamification. The company was founded by Sean Minter in 2014 and is headquartered in Plano, TX.

MyCarrier LLC is a shipping management platform that connects shippers directly to their carriers using innovative API technology. MyCarrier is based in Scottsdale, AZ and was founded in 2017 by Michael L. Bookout and Chris Scheid. The platform offers a seamless end-to-end shipping process and provides unrivaled data that leads to easier shipping management, cost savings, and increased efficiencies. MyCarrier empowers LTL shippers to quote, book, and track freight in less time and for less money through one easy-to-use integrated shipping platform. The company has partnered with the industry's largest carriers to provide unprecedented efficiencies and value-based visibility. Michael L. Bookout has been the CEO since 2017.

Volition Capital LLC (Volition Capital) is a venture capital & private equity firm founded in 2010 by Larry Cheng, Roger Hurwitz, Geraldine Alias, Sean Cantwell and Rob Ketterson. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Part of EmergeTech LLC, Emergetech, Inc. develops a platform for freight procurement processes. The company is based in Scottsdale, AZ. The company was founded in 2017 by Andrew J. Leto. Andrew J. Leto has been the CEO since 2017.

Flutterwave, Inc. provides technology, infrastructure and services to enable global merchants, payment service providers. Its solutions include checkout, card issuing, store, invoice, payments links, and consumers. The company was founded by Iyinoluwa Aboyeji and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

EmergeTech LLC develops and offers transportation management solutions. Its features include tracking trucks in real-time, build loads in seconds, create and send quotes, award tenders and analytics and reporting. The company was founded by Andrew J. Leto and Michael Leto on March 3, 2017 and is headquartered in Scottsdale, AZ.

Greycroft LLC is a private equity & venture capital firm founded by Alan J. Patricof, Dana R. Settle and Ian Sigalow. The firm is headquartered in New York. They also have an office in Los Angeles, California.

Bliss Experiences, Inc. provide travel tour services. The company was founded by Jaime Getto and Heather Stupi and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Apptegy, Inc. engages in the development of publishing platform for schools. It offers Thrillshare, a mobile application that creates and distributes content from mobile application. The company was founded by Jeston George and Dan Pariente in 2015 and is headquartered in Little Rock, AR.

RBC Capital Markets LLC is a full-service brokerage and financial services firm headquartered in New York City. They are a direct subsidiary of RBC USA Holdco Corp. and a wholly-owned indirect subsidiary of Royal Bank of Canada (TSE, NYSE: RY). Founded in 2010, the firm is comprised of 3 major business lines: the Private Client Group, the Fixed-Income Group and the Clearing and Execution Services Group. The Private Client Group serves individual investors, while the Fixed-Income Group provides services to institutions, municipalities and non-profit organizations. The Clearing and Execution Services Group is a provider of clearing and execution services to independent brokers/dealers throughout the US. RBC Capital Markets focuses on the following sectors: communications, media, consumer/retail, diversified industries, energy, financial institutions, forest products, healthcare, infrastructure finance, mining & metals, real estate, social infrastructure, technology and the US municipal markets.