Kurt W. Florian

Cargill, Inc. engages in the provision of food, agricultural, financial, and industrial products and services. It specializes in food service, agriculture, meat and poultry, transportation, pharmaceutical ingredients, and beauty products. The company was founded by William Wallace Cargill in 1865 and is headquartered in Minneapolis, MN.

First Trust Advisors LP (FTA) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Wheaton, Illinois. The firm was founded in 1991 and is a direct subsidiary of Grace Partners of Dupage LP. Their general partner is The Charger Corp. FTA provides discretionary investment management services to institutional and individual clients who principally include open and closed-end mutual funds, collective investment funds (CIFs), exchange-traded funds, variable annuity sub-accounts and funds in countries other than the US. Investment management services are offered to individual clients through separate managed accounts (SMAs), either directly or through wrap fee programs sponsored by unaffiliated investment advisors.

TimeSys Corp. provides embedded Linux solutions. Its services include design review and consulting, jump start service, kernel, bootloader, and device driver development and porting, board bring up, application development, boot time optimization, power management optimization, system development, and android porting and development. The company was founded by Raj Rajkumar, Bala Kumar, and Srini Srinivasan in 1995 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA.

NYSE Group, Inc. operates multiple securities stock exchange. It through its subsidiaries operates multiple securities market centers, including the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and NYSE Arca (formerly known as the Archipelago Exchange and the Pacific Exchange). It provides securities listings, market information products and services. It offers a range of investment vehicles and order execution services. It operate as electronic platform used to trade securities and security-related financial instruments. It is headquartered in New York, NY.

OptionsHouse LLC operates as an online stock and option broking company. It offers trading platforms for retail and institutional options traders and investors. The firm offers trading platform, mobile trading, and virtual trading services. The company was founded by Danny Rosenthal and David Budworth in 2005 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

TruMarx Data Partners, Inc. provides web-based electronic marketplace services. It offers electronic negotiation and execution platform that allows subscribers to publish, negotiate, and finalize customized transactions. The company was founded in 2006 by Jon B. Olson, Michael Mackey, Glenn Smart and Chuck Reese and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

BlueCava, Inc. provides cross-screen and cross-device technology. It offers audience association platform enables cross-screen audience management and measurement for brands, agencies and Adtech. The firm’s platform addresses ID reconciliation, mobile device recognition and cross-screen association and cross-screen data management and deployment. The company was founded by John Sherrod and David Norris on July 1, 2010 and is headquartered in Irvine, CA.

MediaCrossing, Inc. operates as an independent digital media trading firm. The firm operates Mx Platform, a comprehensive, digital media trading and data management platform made up of three critical components: Mx Trader, Mx Data and Mx Datalytics. Its managed service platform precisely identifies prospective and in-market audiences, values available inventory on a per impression basis. The company was founded by William Arnold Lederer, Michael K. Kalman and Theodore M. Yang in December 2012 and is headquartered in Stamford, CT.

Jefferies LLC is a global investment bank and institutional securities firm headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1962 and is a subsidiary of Jefferies Group LLC, ultimately held by Jefferies Financial Group, Inc. (NYSE: JEF). Jefferies provides corporate clients with research and execution services in equity, fixed income, and foreign exchange markets, as well as a full range of investment banking services such as underwriting, mergers and acquisitions, restructuring and recapitalization, and other advisory services, with all businesses operating in the Americas, Europe and Asia.

McKinsey & Co., Inc. provides management consulting services. It specializes in design, marketing and sales, analytics, operations, transformation and restructuring, risk, strategy and corporate finance, and sustainability and resource productivity. The company was founded by James O. McKinsey in 1926 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Asset Allocation & Management Co. LLC (AAM) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. The firm was founded in 1982 and is principally owned by Securian AAM Holdings LLC, ultimately owned by Minnesota Mutual Cos., Inc. AAM provides discretionary and non-discretionary investment advice to insurance companies across all business segments of the industry including Property and Casualty, Life, Health and Captive insurers.

CreditSights, Inc. is an independent investment research firm headquartered in New York City. The firm was co-founded by Paul Ciasullo, Reena Mithal, Glenn Reynolds and Peter Petas in 2000. They are a subsidiary of Fitch Group, Inc., ultimately owned by The Hearst Family Trust. CreditSights provides fundamental, in-depth credit research for buy-side decisionmakers, sell-side intermediaries and wealth managers and private banks globally. The firm actively covers more than 5,000 companies in North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific representing over 56 countries.

VSA Partners, Inc. provides brand activation and marketing services. Its services include brand strategy, brand architecture and naming, identity design, expression systems, launch and implementation programs, and brand centers and retail environments. The company was founded by Robert Vogele on November 22, 1982 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL. ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^

PGIM Private Capital is a private equity firm, a subsidiary of Prudential Capital Group, founded in 1998. The firm is headquartered in Illinois, Chicago.

NYSE Euronext operates financial markets and provides trading solutions. It offers an array of products and services in cash equities, futures, options, swaps, exchange-traded products, bonds, clearing operations, market data, commercial technology solutions and carbon trading, all designed to meet the evolving needs of investors, issuers, financial institutions and market participants. The company was founded by Jean-François Théodore in 2007 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

FX Alliance LLC operates as a holding company with interest in providing electronic foreign exchange trading solutions. Its proprietary technology platform enables it to deliver reliable FX price discovery, trade execution and automation of pre-trade and post-trade transaction workflow with access to a deep pool of liquidity from banks and other liquidity providers. FX Alliance comprehensive suite of electronic FX trading products, including FX spot, FX forwards, FX swaps and non-deliverable forwards are used by asset managers, banks, broker-dealers, corporations, hedge funds, prime brokers and other institutions worldwide. The company's platform supports the over-the-counter trading of gold and silver on a spot, forward or swap basis and provides access to bank deposits. FX Alliance offers single point access to multiple execution mechanisms, including collaborative trading, request for stream, continuous streaming prices, and an anonymous electronic communication network, as well as execution mechanisms proprietary to specific liquidity providers. It offers institutional clients with 24-hour direct access, five days per week to the foreign exchange market, which is a liquid financial market. The company was founded on September 22, 2006 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

The Episcopal Charities operates as a religious organization. It provides community services. The company was founded in 1960 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Virtus Partners LLC engages in the provision of financial services and technology. It offers managed services solution which delivers front, middle and back office services, including fund administration, loan agency, and trade settlements. Its product include SunGard’s VPM for portfolio accounting and Misys FusionBanking Loan IQ for core loan agency functions. The company was founded by Chadwick Kelly Faykus, Joseph U. Elston, Mirna Herr, and Robert Tomicic in 2005 and is headquarterd in Houston, TX.

PulsePoint, Inc. provides digital media marketing and publishing services. The firm offers programmatic and content marketing solutions. The company was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Virtus Partners Holdings, LLC operates as a holding company that provides client-based solutions for asset managers, banks, hedge funds and investors. The company is headquartered in Austin, TX.

MMKT Exchange LLC provides a platform that streamlines the loan syndication and trading process for institutional buyers and originators. It works as a forum where lenders who have originated commercial loans and institutional buyers interact with one another. The company is headquartered in New York, NY.

Siepe LLC provides financial data management and information technology solutions. The firm cloud based solutions offers flexible front, middle, and back office components. The company was founded by Michael Pusateri in 2012 and is headquartered in Dallas, TX.