Jennifer Gross

Allied Capital Corp, a business development company, invests in private middle market companies located in the US. The fund target companies across a broad range of sectors with an EBITDA of $5 - $150 million. It provides debt and equity financing for buyout transactions and also makes minority equity co-investments. It also invests in private equity and debt funds.

T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc. (Price Associates) is a registered investment advisor and mutual fund manager headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland. The firm was founded by Thomas Rowe Price, Jr. in 1937. They are a subsidiary of the T. Rowe Price Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: TROW), which was formed in 2000 as the publicly traded parent holding company of Price Associates and their affiliated entities. Price Associates offers a variety of mutual funds, sub-advisory services and separate account management for individual and institutional investors, retirement plans and financial intermediaries.

Charles Schwab Investment Management, Inc. (dba Schwab Asset Management®) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in San Francisco, California. The firm was founded in 1989 and is a wholly-owned subsidiary of The Charles Schwab Corp. (NASDAQ: SCHW). Schwab Asset Management is the investment adviser for Schwab Funds, Schwab ETFs, and separately managed account strategies.

Metron, Inc. provides scientific consulting services. The firm specializes in statistical inference, operations research, physical modeling and software development. It offers advanced mathematics applications, systems and analysis, operations analysis and simulation sciences and cyber analysis. The company was founded by Thomas L. Corwin in 1982 and is headquartered in Reston, VA.

LPL Financial LLC is a SEC-registered investment advisor and wealth management firm headquartered in Fort Mill, South Carolina. The firm was founded in 1989 as Linsco/Private Ledger Corp. They are a direct subsidiary of LPL Holdings, Inc., owned by LPL Financial Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: LPLA). LPL Financial offers various types of advisory services and programs to individual and institutional clients.

Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC is a registered broker-dealer subsidiary of Morgan Stanley Domestic Holdings, Inc., ultimately owned by Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) in the US. Headquartered in New York City, the firm was founded in 1987 and provides debt and equity services including underwriting, M&A advice, securities dealing and brokerage and trade execution. Their client base ranges from large global institutional investors to hedge funds at the cutting edge of innovation in the industry.

Bridgewater Associates LP (Bridgewater) is a SEC-registered investment advisor and fund of hedge funds manager headquartered in Westport, Connecticut. The firm was founded by Ray Dalio in 1975. They are a subsidiary of Bridgewater Associates Intermediate Holdings LP, which is owned by Bridgewater Associates Holdings, Inc. Bridgewater provides discretionary investment management services to pooled investment vehicles and single investor funds, and managed account clients.

Harris Williams & Co. provides investment advisory services. It offers investment banking, sell-side mergers and acquisitions, capital raising, fairness opinion, and restructuring advisory services. The company was founded by H. Hiter Harris III and Christopher H. Williams in 1991 and is headquartered in Richmond, VA.

ABS Capital Partners, Inc. (ABS Capital Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 1990 by Don Bruce Hebb and Tim Thaddeus Weglicki. The firm is headquartered in Washington, DC.

Harris Williams & Co. /Management/ is a private company based in Richmond, VA. The company is led by the management of Harris Williams & Co.

The Boy Scouts of America provides a program for young people that builds character, trains in the responsibilities of participating citizenship, and develops personal fitness. The company was founded in 1910 and is headquartered in Irving, TX.

PJM Interconnection LLC monitors and coordinates the movement of wholesale electricity. The company was founded in 1927 and is headquartered in Audubon, PA.

Edison Electric Institute provides reference materials and information resources on the electricity industry to its members. It offers public policy leadership, strategic business intelligence, and essential conferences and forums. The company was founded in 1933 and is headquartered in Washington, DC.

ReliabilityFirst Corp. preserves and enhances electric service reliability and security of the interconnected electric system. It provides technical and marketing support to its members. The company was founded in January 2006 and is headquartered in Canton, OH.

The Maryland Chamber of Commerce is a chamber of commerce organization. The non-profit company is based in Annapolis, MD.

Farmers & Mechanics Mutual Insurance Co. was founded in 1877 and is based in Martinsburg, WV with subsidiaries in the United States. The private company offers a 24-hour claims service for easy claim submissions and have an agent locator to find an agent in the most convenient location for their customers. The company provides reliable coverage for farm, home, renters, landlord, and auto insurance. The company prioritizes their members and aim to provide respectable customer service and quality policy coverages. The company has taken COVID-19 precautions by frequently sanitizing contact surfaces and high touch surfaces. The company also sponsors hospice and has a blog for news and testimonials.

Southeastern Electric Exchange operates as a non-profit organization. It is non-political trade association of investor-owned electric utility companies. The company was founded in 1933 and is headquartered in Atlanta, GA.

The Capon Valley Bank is a commercial bank, which focuses on providing banking products and services. Its offerings includes Internet banking, mobile banking, popmoney, ATMs, safe deposits, calculators, cashier checks, wire transfer, currency exchange and debit cards. The company was founded on July 30, 1918 and is headquartered in Wardensville, WV.

The Grant County Bank operates as a state chartered commercial bank. The firm provide financial services and products to families, small businesses and the agricultural community. The company was founded on August 6, 1902 and is headquartered in Petersburg, WV.

AccessBank Tanzania Ltd. provides commercial banking services. It offers current, saving, savings plan, and student accounts; fixed term deposits and money transfers; and micro and SME loans. The firm provides microfinance services to micro, small and medium-sized and the general lower and middle income clients. The company was founded in November 2007 and is headquartered in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

Brown Advisory LLC is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland. The firm is a subsidiary of Brown Advisory Management LLC and their ultimate parent is Brown Advisory, Inc. The firm was founded and launched in 1993 as an investment management division of Alex. Brown & Sons, a Baltimore-based investment bank founded in 1800. In 1998, they became independently owned through an employee-led buyout. Brown Advisory provides investment management services to individuals and institutions.

UGAFODE Microfinance Ltd. provides financial services. Its product offers loans, ordinary and target savings account, fixed deposit, groupsave, junior saving, and institutional savings account. The firm also provides mobile, money transfer, mobile money services, and bill payments. The company was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Kampala, Uganda.

ChemImage Corp. produces hyperspectral imaging instrumentation and software for chemical and biological applications. It offers analytical, instrumentation and training services. The firm serves the biomedical, forensics, pharmaceutical and threat detection markets. The company was founded by Patrick Treado in 1994 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA.

MFX Solutions, Inc. provides hedging products and risk management education to entrepreneurs in low-income countries. Its products includes currency forward contracts, cross currency swaps, currency options, spot transactions and currency delivery and portfolio risk management. The company was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Washington, DC.

Founded in 2009, Ernst & Young Capital Advisors LLC is an SEC-registered broker/dealer headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. The firm is affiliated with Ernst & Young LLP. Ernst & Young Capital Advisors provides an array of trading and execution services for their clients. They do not provide any internal research.

MicroVest Capital Management LLC (MicroVest Capital) is a private equity subsidiary of DAI Global LLC founded in 2003 by Gill Crawford and W. Bowman Cutter. The firm is headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland.

IEEE Power & Energy Society develops standards and empowers the development of technology, software. It provides electric power engineering services. The company is headquartered in New Jersey, NJ.

United Way of Central Maryland, Inc. provides social services. It empowers families to become self-sufficient by focusing on education, employment, housing and health. The company was founded in 1925 and is headquartered in Baltimore, MD.