David Aaron Brask

Aaron's LLC retails consumer electronics, computers, residential furniture, household appliances, and accessories. It engages in the lease ownership, lease and retail sale of products such as widescreen and liquid crystal display televisions, computers, living room, dining room and bedroom furniture, washers, dryers, and refrigerators. The company operates through the following business segments: Progressive Leasing, Aaron’s Business and Vive. The Progressive Leasing segment provides lease-purchase solutions on a variety of products, including furniture and appliance, jewelry, mobile phones and accessories, mattress, and automobile electronics and accessories. The Aaron’s Business segment offers furniture, home appliances, consumer electronics and accessories to consumers with a lease-to-own agreement. The Vive segment offers a variety of second-look financing programs originated through third-party federally insured banks to customers of participating merchants and, together with Progressive Leasing, allows the Company to provide retail partners. The company was founded by R. Charles Loudermilk, Sr. in 1955 and is headquartered in Atlanta, GA.

Raymond James & Associates, Inc. (RJA) is a registered broker-dealer headquartered in St. Petersburg, Florida. The firm was founded in 1962 and is a subsidiary of Raymond James Financial, Inc. (NYSE: RJF), a diversified holding company. RJA offers a full array of capital markets services, strategic advice and planning for institutional investors.

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.

JPMorgan Securities LLC (JPMS) is a securities brokerage firm headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1985 and is a subsidiary of JPMorgan Broker-Dealer Holdings, Inc., ultimately held by JPMorgan Chase & Co., Inc. (NYSE: JPM). JPMS provides research on fixed income, credit, derivatives, emerging markets, foreign exchange, structured finance, technical analysis and bond indices. Their equity analysts cover equities throughout North America, EMEA, Asia/Pacific and the emerging markets. The firm's fixed income team formulates trading and portfolio recommendations for investors in global bonds and other fixed-income markets based on valuations, analytics and market dynamics.

Founded in 2002, Empirical Research Partners LLC (ERP) is an independent investment research firm located in New York City. The firm provides services to institutional clients. ERP's research approach is based on empirical evidence. They seek to combine the macro and micro and the short- and long-run evidence into a comprehensive viewpoint. The firm employs inclusive, proprietary databases and sophisticated stock selection models that are based on judgments about human nature. ERP's ongoing research effort attempts to determine how best to translate those judgments into useful decision-making rules. The firm's portfolio strategy is based on microeconomics and seeks to exploit a variety of anomalies to identify stocks that should outperform the market. These anomalies may include misvaluation, overinvestment or retrenchment by management and excessive extrapolation of trends by investors. ERP employs a proprietary, customized database that contains large quantities of company-level data. The firm looks for situations in which the current state of affairs is untenable and the reward for patience is great. ERP's quantitative research seeks to help active portfolio managers make better decisions by exploiting recurring aspects of human nature. Their tools quantify these variables and combine them into screens or formal multifactor models that identify companies with desirable or undesirable traits. The models balance conflicting signals in a dynamic fashion, putting greater emphasis on the factor with the highest expected return at each point in time. The firm's research approach with respect to the developed markets outside of the U.S. is similar, but not identical, to the process they use in researching U.S. companies. ERP's international research considers the economic, legal, accounting, cultural and historical differences within each region and covers the broad range of issues affecting stocks and markets globally. Their stock-selection models combine measures of valuation, capital deployment, earnings quality and market reaction into a single expected return. They compare each stock to its peers within the global sector, within the geographic region and to all stocks across the entire market.

Duke University is an academic university that offers undergraduate, graduate and professional programs. It also has publications and research services. The university was founded in 1838 and is headquartered in Durham, NC.

Harvard University engages in the provision of teaching and research. It has twelve degree-granting Schools in addition to the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, offering a global education. The university was founded in 1636 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

The Florida Bar operates as professional organization of lawyers. The company is headquartered in Tallahassee, FL.

Reznicsek Fraser Hastings White & Shaffer PA provides legal and litigation services. The company was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Jacksonville, FL.

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP provides legal services. It offers advisory, counseling, corporate, economic development, and other related legal services to individuals and businesses. The company was founded by Patrick Henry Nelson II in 1897 and is headquartered in Columbia, SC.

Community Bankers Association of Georgia involves in business associations. It pools community bank resources for political representation. The company was founded in 1969 and is headquartered in Atlanta, GA.

Bank of America, NA (Private Banking) (Bank of America-PB) is the private banking arm of Bank of America, NA, which is a subsidiary of Bank of America Corp. (NYSE: BAC). Headquartered in New York City, the firm was founded in 1947 and is also known as US Trust, Bank of America Private Wealth Management. Bank of America-PB serves the needs of high net-worth and ultra-high net-worth individuals and families by providing comprehensive wealth management products and services that focuses on wealth structuring (wealth planning, trusts and estates, philanthropy, custody services), investment management (portfolio consulting, asset management, capital markets, specialty asset management) and credit and banking (financial management tools, liquidity services, custom credit, real estate finance).

Part of Berry Global Group, Inc., Global Closure Systems Germany GmbH designs, manufactures and supplies plastic closures. The company is based in Zell, Germany. The CEOs are Jason Kent Greene, Mark William Miles, Roger Hamers. The German company was founded in 2006.

Manchester Capital Management LLC (MCM) is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Manchester Center, Vermont. The firm was founded in 1993 by Edward Cronin Jr. MCM provides advisory services to individuals, family office entities, pension and profit-sharing plans, trusts, estates or charitable organizations, corporations or other business entities, and the Equinox Funds.

Stellar Development, Inc. offers general contracting and construction management services. Its projects ranging from full-scale renovations to new construction of residential, hospitality, institutional, retail, and religious facilities. The company was founded in 2007 Maurice A. Opstal and is headquartered in Bradenton, FL.

Wells Fargo Securities LLC (WFS) is the broker/dealer subsidiary of EVEREN Capital Corp., ultimately owned by Wells Fargo & Co. (NYSE: WFC). Headquartered in New York, WFS delivers a comprehensive suite of banking, capital markets and advisory solutions, such as a full complement of sales, trading and research capabilities, to corporate, government and institutional clients.

TP ICAP Global Markets Americas LLC (TP ICAP) is registered broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1998 and formerly known as Garban Corporates LLC and as ICAP Corporates LLC. They are a wholly-owned subsidiary of ICAP Securities USA LLC, which is ultimately owned by TP ICAP Group Plc (LON: TCAP) in Great Britain. TP ICAP provides comprehensive analysis and insight into market conditions and long-term trends. They combine data, knowledge and intelligence into contextual insight and commercial guidance.

Groundswell Productivity Solutions LLC engages in the development of a software platform for legal practice. Its product, ZenCase, helps lawyers in knowledge management, document automation, work group collaboration, NetDocs integration, task management, business intelligence, QuickBooks integration, and time and billing. The company was founded by Thomas J. Fraser, Jr. in 2013 and is headquartered in Jacksonville, FL.

Ropes & Gray LLP provides legal and private equity services. Its practice areas include asset management, banking, business and commercial litigation, business restructuring, capital markets and corporate governance and compliance. The company was founded in 1865 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Global Closure Systems France 1 SAS manufactures plastic closures for consumer packaging. It offers plastic and metal closures and dispensing systems for the global beverage, food, household and industrial, health care, personal care and wine and spirits markets. The company was founded on September 26, 2005 and is headquartered in Issy-les-Moulineaux, France.

Crum & Forster Holdings Corp. provides commercial property and casualty insurance services. The firm?s products include admitted P&C, accident & health, excess & surplus and industry solutions. The company was founded in 1896 and is headquartered in Morristown, NJ.

Part of Berry Global Group, Inc., Massmould Ltd. is a British company that manufactures plastic closures for consumer packaging. The company is based in Rushden, UK and was founded in 1981.

Part of Berry Global Group, Inc., Promens Germany GmbH is a company that provides financial services. The company is based in Hockenheim, Germany. The CEOs of the company are Andreas Heldt, Jason Kent Greene, Mark William Miles.

Part of Berry Global Group, Inc., Berry Aschersleben GmbH is a company that manufactures and markets microporous breathable films and composites. Berry Aschersleben GmbH is based in Aschersleben, Germany. The CEOs of the German company are Antonius Johanna van der Steenhoven, Jason Kent Greene, Thomas Heß.