Brian Waterman

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

Founded in 2010 by George Gosbee, AltaCorp Capital Inc. is an institutional financial advisory and brokerage firm headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The firm offers a full spectrum of value-added financial and advisory services to corporations in across various stages of development. Their products and services include corporate mergers and acquisition advisory, equity financings, asset acquisitions and divestitures advisory, institutional sales and trading and institutional equity research. AltaCorp Capital focuses on key drivers of the Western Canadian economy that are global in scope including energy, agri-industry and diversified industries, with overlap into interdependent subsectors. The firm's research includes macro analysis, theme pieces, daily notes, corporate reviews, quarterly and annual overviews and other relevant market/sector issues. AltaCorp Capital's Institutional Sales and Trading team has expertise in both national and global trading markets and are fully integrated within an expansive network of long-standing relationships with institutional clients. They offer execution in trading securities and relevant and timely placing of new offers/issues. The firm also offers execution in institutional block trading and an industry leading technical platform. AltaCorp maintains a strategic relationship with ATB Financial, a full-service financial institution headquartered in Edmonton, Alberta.

CIBC Securities, Inc. is a fund distributor located in Toronto, Ontario. The firm is a subsidiary of the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (NYSE: CM). The firm is the principal distributor of the CIBC Mutual Funds and the CIBC Family of Managed Portfolios. The CIBC Family of Managed Portfolios consists of CIBC Managed Portfolios and CIBC U.S. Dollar Managed Portfolios, which are mutual funds that invest primarily in CIBC Mutual Funds.

National Bank Financial, Inc. (NBF) is a Canadian mutual fund manager headquartered in Montréal, Quebec. The firm was founded in 1902 and is a direct subsidiary of National Bank Acquisition Holding, Inc., ultimately owned by National Bank of Canada (TSX: NA). NBF is an integrated firm that combines retail advisory and brokerage services with institutional brokerage, investment banking, corporate finance and securities clearing services for third parties.

TD Securities, Inc. is a Canadian broker/dealer headquartered in Toronto, Ontario. The firm is a subsidiary of The Toronto-Dominion Bank (NYSE, TSE: TD). TD Securities provides a wide range of capital market products and services to corporate, government and institutional clients. Their services also include the underwriting and distribution of new debt and equity issues, providing advice on strategic acquisitions and divestitures and executing daily trading and investment needs. The firm’s equity group provides research coverage of various sectors. Their fixed-income group provides a full range of underwriting sales and trading products for Canadian, US and European debt issuers and investors.

Novacap Management, Inc (Novacap Management) is a Private Equity firm founded in 1981 by Marc Beauchamp. The firm is headquartered in Brossard, Quebec.

RBC Europe Ltd. is the Great Britain-based broker/dealer subsidiary of RBC Europe Ltd., itself a subsidiary of Royal Bank of Canada (TSE: RY) in Canada. Headquartered in London, the firm was founded in 1970 and provides a full spectrum of brokerage services specifically tailored for both retail and institutional investors. The firm is active in several markets, exchanges, and electronic trading platforms.

Part of Rothschild Concordia SAS, N.M. Rothschild & Sons Canada Ltd. is a provider of banking and financial services. The company is based in Montréal, Canada.

Canaccord Genuity Corp. (CGC) is the broker/dealer subsidiary of Canaccord Genuity Group, Inc., (TSE: CF; OTCMKTS: CCORF) in Canada. The firm was founded in 2010 and is locally known as Financière Canaccord ltée. Headquartered in Vancouver, CGC offers corporate and institutional clients with versatile and responsive sales and execution services that range from Institutional Equities and International Equities to Electronic Trading and Fixed Income. Their sales & trading team execution capabilities encompass a wide range of products and services such as Equities, ADR’s, OTC, ETF’s, Fixed Income, Options, Preferreds, Investment Companies.

Echelon Wealth Partners, Inc. (Echelon) is a Canadian-owned and operated full-service broker-dealer headquartered in Toronto, Ontario. The firm was founded by Robert Furse and David Cusson in 2010 as Euro Pacific Canada, Inc. They are owned by 1-UP Holdings Corp., a holding company. Echelon offers superior investment advice and efficient trade execution for their institutional and retail clients. In 2023, Echelon and PI Financial Corp. (now known as Ventum Financial Corp.) have agreed to combine in a merger of equals to create an investment advisory, wealth management, and capital markets firm.

Pinnacle Wealth Brokers, Inc. is an exempt market dealer and portfolio manager that provides private investment opportunities to qualifying Canadians through a network of trained, registered dealing representatives throughout the country. The private company is based in Edmonton, Canada, and has subsidiaries in Canada. Established in 2006, the Canadian company believes in a diversified approach to investing, combining both private and public investments within clients' portfolios. The company actively seek out unique investment opportunities to help clients achieve their financial goals. The CEO of the company is Darvin Zurfluh.

SpringBig, Inc. develops an application that provides marketing and customer engagement services to local merchants. It offers marketing, marketing through social media and data analytics. The company was founded by Jeffrey Harris and Michael Gross in 2013 and is headquartered in Boca Raton, FL.

Part of Société Générale SA, the company is a clearing services provider based in New York, NY.

Tuatara Capital LP (Tuatara Capital) is a private equity/venture capital firm, a subsidiary of Tuatara Capital GP LLC founded in 2014 by Mark Zittman and Albert Foreman. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Part of Echelon Wealth Holdings, Inc., Dundee Securities, Inc. is a Canadian company that provides investment services. The company is based in Toronto, Canada.

Nicola Wealth Management Ltd. (Private Equity) is a Private Equity, a subsidiary of Nicola Wealth Management Ltd. founded in 2012 by John Michael Nicola. The firm is headquartered in Vancouver, the United States.

Maple Rock Capital Partners, Inc. (Maple Rock) is an alternative investment manager headquartered in Toronto, Canada. The firm was founded in 2014 by Xavier Majic and Lennard Kipp. They are a subsidiary of Three Sisters Holdings, Inc. Maple Rock provides discretionary investment advisory services to pooled investment vehicles operating as private investment funds.

Origin Merchant Partners operates as an investment bank. It provides value added corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions and merchant banking services. The firm serves the agriculture, consumer products, financial services, healthcare, industrials, media, mining, oil and gas, power and utilities, real estate, technology, telecommunications and transportation industries. The company was founded by W. Glenn Shyba in 2011 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

Ashler Capital LLC is a registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in Chicago, Illinois with additional offices in New York, San Francisco, and Boston. Founded in 2018, the firm is a subsidiary of Citadel Advisors Holdings LP, ultimately held by GFH HFEVA LLC. Ashler Capital offers a range of investment strategies to various investors.