Julie Leschke

Nicholas Co., Inc. is a privately-owned, SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The firm was founded by Albert Nicholas in 1967 and they provide investment advice to individuals, institutions, trusts, estates and charitable organizations, corporations and other business entities, pensions and profit sharing plans, and investment companies.

The State of Wisconsin Investment Board (SWIB) is a state-owned pension fund management firm headquartered in Madison, Wisconsin. SWIB was founded in 1951 and is responsible for managing the assets of the Wisconsin Retirement System (WRS), the State Investment Fund (SIF) and other state trust funds. The WRS includes the Core Retirement Investment Trust Fund (Core Fund) and the Variable Retirement Investment Trust Fund (Variable Fund).

Allspring Global Investments LLC (Allspring) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina. Prior to November 1, 2021, the firm was known as Wells Capital Management, Inc. They are a direct wholly-owned subsidiary of Allspring Global Investments Holdings LLC, ultimately held by Allspring Group Holdings LLC. Allspring provides investment management services to mutual funds, private funds, collective investment trusts (CITs), pooled vehicles, and other institutional clients and high net-worth individuals.

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.

Piper Sandler & Co. (Broker) (PSC-Broker) is the full-service brokerage division of Piper Sandler & Co., a financial service firm headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota. They are a subsidiary of Piper Sandler Companies (NYSE: PIPR). The firm was founded in 1969 and previously known as Piper Jaffray & Co. They became Piper Sandler & Co. when Piper Jaffray Companies and Sandler O’Neill & Partners, L.P. merged to become Piper Sandler Companies in 2020. PSC-Broker provides brokerage and investment banking services to financial institutions, corporations and other financial investors. Their core focus sectors are Agriculture, renewables & cannabis, Business services, Chemicals & Materials, Consumer, Diversified industrials & services, Energy, Financial services, financial sponsors, Healthcare, and Technology.

VertiFlex, Inc. operates as a medical device company. It offers minimally invasive solutions for the treatment of lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS), which is the cause of spinal surgery in the elderly. The firm specializes in minimally invasive, motion preservation, spine and medical device. The company was founded by Moti Altarac in 2005 and is headquartered in San Clemente, CA.

Part of Greenhill & Co., Inc., Greenhill & Co. LLC is a company that provides financial advice services. The company is based in New York, NY.

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.

Government of South Korea provides news about Korea, Korean government policy, information on Korean history, Korean culture, and traveling in South Korea. It is composed of executive, legislative, and judiciary branch, independent organizations, and local governments.

BMO Capital Markets Corp. (Broker) is the broker/dealer division of BMO Capital Markets Corp., a full-service North American financial services provider headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1998 and is a subsidiary of BMO Financial Corp., which is owned by Bank of Montreal (NYSE, TSX: BMO) in Canada. BMO Capital Markets offers corporate, institutional and government clients access to a variety of products and services including equity and debt underwriting, corporate lending and project financing, merger and acquisitions advisory services, merchant banking, securitization, treasury and market risk management, debt and equity research and institutional sales and trading.

Golden Angels Investors LLC (Golden Angels Investors) is a venture capital firm founded in 2002 by Timothy J Keane. The firm is headquartered in Brookfield, Wisconsin.

Robert W. Baird & Co., Inc. (Broker) (Baird-Broker) is the broker-dealer division of Robert W. Baird & Co., Inc., an investment bank and financial services company headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The firm was founded in 1919 and is ultimately owned by Baird Financial Group, Inc. Baird-Broker offers a full suite of comprehensive trading services for institutional clients.

Atland Fund Manager LLC (Atland Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2015 by Sourish Ghosh, Harshil Chahal, David Brown and Samuel Bagley. The firm is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

YellowDog Corp. (YellowDog) is an independent venture capital firm headquartered in Seoul, Korea. The firm is established in 2016.

Norwest Mezzanine Partners (Norwest Mezzanine Partners) is a private equity subsidiary of Norwest Venture Capital Management Inc. founded in 2000 and headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota with an office in Florida.

KPMG US LLP operates as an audit, tax, and advisory firm. The company is headquartered in Charlotte, NC.

Walton Street Capital LLC is a Private Equity firm, a subsidiary of Walton Capital Advisors LP founded in 1994. Walton Street Capital LLC is headquartered in Chicago.

Kroll LLC provides global advisory services. It offers valuation advisory; governance, risk, investigation, and disputes; kroll cyber risk, corporates finance, and compliance and regulatory consulting. The company was founded by William Duff and George Phelps in 1932 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Northwestern Mutual Capital LLC (Northwestern Mutual Capital) is a private equity firm founded in 1980. The firm is headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Envisioning Partners LLC(Envisioning Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 2021. The firm is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea.

William Blair & Co. LLC (William Blair) is a SEC-registered broker/dealer firm headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. The firm was founded by William McCormick Blair in 1935 and is a subsidiary of WBC Holdings LP. Until 1941, they were known as Blair, Bonner & Co. William Blair provides broking services to individual, institutional and issuing clients.

Digi-Key Corp. distributes electronic components. It also distributes semiconductors, discrete, electromechanical parts. Its products include audio products, batteries, cable assemblies, capacitors, computer & video accessories, connectors, crystals & oscillators, discrete semiconductor products and many more. The company was founded by Ronald A. Stordahl in 1972 and is headquartered in Thief River Falls, MN.

Madison Dearborn Partners LLC (Madison Dearborn Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 1992 by John A. Canning Jr., Paul J. Finnegan, Samuel M. Mencoff, Robin P. Selati, James N. Perry Jr. and Timothy P. Sullivan. The firm is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

Harrison Street Real Estate Capital LLC is a Private Equity/Venture Capital firm, a subsidiary of Colliers International Group, Inc. founded in 2005 by Christopher Nelson Merrill, Chris B. Galvin and Mike P. Galvin. Harrison Street Real Estate Capital LLC is headquartered in Chicago.

Newstone Capital Partners LLC (Newstone Capital Partners) is an independent private equity firm founded in 2006 by Timothy P. Costello and John C. Rocchio. The firm is headquartered in Dallas, Texas.

WestPark Capital, Inc. (Securities) (WPC-Broker) is the securities brokerage division of WestPark Capital, Inc., a full-service investment banking firm headquartered in Los Angeles, California. The firm was founded in 1999 and is principally owned by Westpark Capital Group LLC. WPC-Broker provides a full array of trading and execution services to serve the needs of both private and public companies worldwide, as well as individual and institutional investors.

New York Life Insurance Co. engages in the provision of insurance products and services. It offers life insurance, retirement income, long term care, investments, and premier services. The company was founded on April 12, 1845 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Kopernik Global Investors LLC (Kopernik) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Tampa, Florida. The firm was founded by David Iben in 2013 and is principally owned by Kopernik Holdings LLC. Kopernik provides investment advisory services to individual and institutional clients on a discretionary and non-discretionary basis.

ShoreView Industries LLC (ShoreView Industries) is a private equity firm founded in 2002 by Robert Davis, Jeffrey Mudge, and David Wakefield. The firm is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

AVP Management Services, Inc. (AVP Management Services) is a private equity/venture capital firm firm founded in 1979 by Joseph Charles Aragona, Ken Paul DeAngelis and Jeff C. Garvey. The firm is headquartered in Austin, Texas.

Crescent Capital Group (Private Equity) is a private equity arm of Crescent Capital Group LP founded in 1991 by Jean-Marc Chapus. The firm is headquartered in Los Angeles.

Atalaya Capital Management LP (Atalaya Capital) is a private equity firm founded in 2006 by Ivan Q. Zinn. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Nine Four Ventures (Nine Four Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2018 by Jeffrey Elowe. The firm is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

Vensana Capital Management LLC (Vensana Capital) is a venture capital and growth equity investment firm founded in 2019 by Peter Klein Justin & Kirk G. Nielsen. The firm is headquartered in Saint Paul, Minnesota.