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Lehman Brothers Holdings, Inc. engages in the provision of securities underwriting and investment services. The company is headquartered in New York, NY.

Carnegie Mellon University is an American school that operates as a college or university. It is located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

LaBranche & Co., Inc. provides securities execution and brokerage services to institutional investors and professional traders. The company was founded by George M.L. LaBranche Jr. in 1924 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Cowen Investment Management LLC (Cowen Investment Management) is a venture capital subsidiary of Cowen, Inc. founded in 1997. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Cowen Investment Advisors LLC is a hedge fund manager headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1997 as Ramius Advisors LLC. In May 2017, they changed their legal name to Cowen Investment Advisors LLC and continues to do business as Ramius Advisors LLC. The firm is a subsidiary of Cowen Investment Management LLC, ultimately owned by The Toronto-Dominion Bank (TSX: TD) in Canada. Cowen Investment Advisors provides discretionary investment management services to private funds, UCITS funds, and to registered investment companies.

Founded in 1997, Willis Securities, Inc. is an SEC-registered broker/dealer located in New York City. The firm is a subsidiary of Willis of Michigan, Inc. and their ultimate parent is Willis Group Holdings Plc. Willis Securities provides an array of trading and execution services for their clients. They do not provide any internal research.

TriplePoint Capital LLC (Triplepoint Capital) is a global specialty debt financing firm founded in 1987 by Jim Labe. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

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.

Ridgecrest Capital Partners, Inc. provides investment banking services. The private company is based in Larkspur, CA. The CEO of the company is Joshua M. Rafner.

Legacy Partners Group LLC provides investment banking services. It provides financial advisory services to healthcare, energy, financial services, retail, and technology sectors. The company was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

GE Capital Equity, Inc. (GE Capital Equity) is a private equity division of GE Capital Americas is founded in 1993. The firm is headquartered in Norwalk, Connecticut.

Turnaround Management Association is a organization that provides turnaround management, corporate restructuring and distressed investing services. Its members include turnaround practitioners, attorneys, accountants, investors, lenders, venture capitalists, appraisers, liquidators, executive recruiters, and consultants, as well as academic, government, and judicial employees. The company was founded by Thomas J. Allison, Jay Alix, C. Charles Bahr, Jacques H. Belet, Donald B. Bibeault, Gary Brooks Gerald, P. Buccino, John Butler, Melanie Rovner Cohen, John M. Collard, Marvin A. Davis, Peter Dusenberre, Timothy F. Finley, Kenneth E. Glass, Frank Grisanti, David Hansing, William J. Hass, Thomas D. Hays, William K. Marrinan, F. Richard Matthews, Kevin McConnaghy, Gilbert C. Osnos, Victor Palmieri, Peter Pellitier, Sanford C. Sigoloff, Jack R. Stone, James Sullivan, Rollie Tillman, Peter Tourtellot, John Whitney and Carl M. Youngman in 1991 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Willis Re is one of the world’s leading reinsurance advisors. Over our 180-year history, the firm has developed a deep insight into all aspects of the global insurance industry. In particular, the company understands how individual insurance companies develop and drive their own unique strategies to achieve goals. The company offers customers with comprehensive service backed by stable, well-trained staff to help customers reach and exceed customer’s specific targets in the most cost-effective fashion. The company has a deep understanding of risk and all the ways it affects capital and customers organization’s financial performance. The company's core focus is to provide customers with a superior understanding of the risks customers face, and then advise them on the best ways to manage extreme outcomes.

Part of Ambac Financial Group, Inc., Everspan Financial Guarantee Corp. provides surety insurance. The company is based in New York, NY.

New York Foundling, Inc. provides child welfare services. It offers services to children in the foster care systems, families struggling with instability, adults with developmental disabilities, youth involved in the juvenile justice systems, infants and toddlers born into difficult circumstances, per-schoolers in head start programs, and young scholars in low income communities. The company was founded by Mary Irene Fitzgibbon on October 11, 1869 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

PennantPark Investment Advisers LLC (PennantPark) is a private equity firm founded in 2007 by Art Penn. The firm is headquartered in Miami, Florida with additional offices in New York, Chicago, Houston and Los Angeles.

The Bachmann-Strauss Dystonia & Parkinson Foundation operates as a non-profit organization. It provides public awareness of diseases, recognizing key scientific discoveries, and incentivizing the work of dedicated researchers. The company was founded by Bonnie Strauss in 1995 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

William Blair Investment Management LLC (William Blair) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. The firm was founded in 2014 and is a wholly-owned subsidiary of WBC Holdings LP. William Blair provides investment solutions to corporations, pension funds, governments and public agencies, endowments, foundations, Taft-Hartley plans, and other institutional investors across the globe.

Benefit Street Partners LLC /Private Debt/ (BSP) is a private debt firm which was founded in 2008, headquartered in New York, with additional offices in Charlotte, Houston, Providence and San Francisco.