Thomas D. Lyon

TCW Asset Management Co. LLC (TCW) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Los Angeles, California. The firm was founded in 1992 and is wholly-owned by The TCW Group, Inc. In 2013, TCW management and private investment funds affiliated with The Carlyle Group (NASDAQ: CG) acquired TCW Group from Société Générale. TCW provides investment management and advice for a wide array of investment strategies for institutional and individual investors through investment advisory accounts, private open- and closed-end commingled investment funds and structured investment vehicles such as collateralized debt obligations.

TCW Strategic Income Fund, Inc. operates as a diversified, closed-end management investment company. It invests in convertible securities, marketable equity securities, investment-grade debt securities, high-yield debt securities, securities issued or guaranteed by the US Government, its agencies and instrumentalities, repurchase agreements, mortgage related securities, asset-backed securities, money market securities, other securities and derivative instruments. The company was founded on January 13, 1987 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

Founded in 2000, Transamerica Investment Management LLC is a registered investment advisor located in Los Angeles with additional offices in San Francisco and Dayton, Ohio. The firm is a of Transamerica Corp. and their ultimate parent is AEGON NV (NYSE: AEG), a multinational insurance organization headquartered in The Hague, The Netherlands. Transamerica Investment Management provides fee-based investment management to retail and institutional clients. Their institutional clients include corporations, foundations, endowments, hospitals, religious organizations, public funds and Taft-Hartley accounts. The firm also manages 22 mutual funds.

MUFG Union Bank, NA (dba Union Bank) is a private banking firm headquartered in San Francisco, California. The firm was founded in 1953 and in 2021 they became a subsidiary of MUFG Americas Holdings Corp., ultimately held by Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. (TYO: 8306) in Japan. Union Bank provides an array of financial services to wealthy individuals & families, executives, professional service firms, and mission-driven organizations.

Pasadena Angels, Inc. (Pasadena Angels) is an angel investment firm founded in 2000 by DuWayne J. Peterson. The firm is headquartered Altadena, California.

Vinergy, Inc. is based in Bakersfield, CA. The company's mission is to identify industry-specific problems and bridge the gap between manual labor and heavy machinery. The company's short-term goals are to engineer a heavy-duty universal electric platform for application in multiple industries, with a long-term vision to provide autonomous industrial solutions across multiple verticals. Meng and Shaw have more than 30 years of combined experience in manufacturing and finance. Vinergy, Inc. is a company founded in 2019 by Justin Meng, President and CEO, and Jeff Shaw, COO. The CEO of the company is Justin Meng.