Lauren Fine

Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. provided wealth management, securities trading and sales, corporate finance and investment banking services. Merrill Lynch was a global trader and underwriter of securities and derivatives across a range of asset classes and serve as a strategic advisor to governments, institutions and individuals worldwide. The company was founded in 1913 and was headquartered in Charlotte, NC.

National Semiconductor Corp. develops and manufactures analog intensive and mixed-signal integrated circuits. The firm’s product portfolio includes power management circuits, audio and operational amplifiers, analog-to-digital or digital-to-analog converters, communication interface circuits, lighting and display circuits, adaptive voltage scaling circuits, and radio frequency integrated circuits, as well as power references, regulators, and switches. The company was founded by Arie Brish on June 29, 1959 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, Inc. (MLPFS) is the SEC-registered broker/dealer subsidiary of Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc., ultimately held by Charlotte-based Bank of America Corp. (NYSE: BAC). The firm was founded in 1958 and is headquartered in New York City. In 2010, Banc of America Securities LLC merged with MLPFS and the firm uses the trade name Bank of America Merrill Lynch. MLPFS's global strategy and economics team serves institutional and individual investors using a wide range of macroeconomic disciplines. Their analysis of global issues provides clients with investment ideas, market forecasts, macro overviews and specific sector recommendations across asset classes, regions and disciplines. Their equity research team conducts fundamental analysis on companies globally and provides institutional and retail clients with industry-specific and in-depth research and analysis on numerous industries. The firm's global fixed-income and equity-linked research focuses on fixed-income and equity derivatives, fixed-income strategy, convertibles, commodities, high-yield, mortgages, municipals and global foreign exchange.

Sally Gries founded Gries Financial LLC in 1978 with the objective of providing investment management services that offered superior growth of clients' assets with a moderate level of risk. Located in Cleveland, Ohio, the firm manages assets for individuals and institutional clients, including pension and profit sharing plans, foundations, endowments and corporations.

Language Line Holdings, Inc. provides over-the-phone interpretation services. The firm provides language, technology, and document translation services. It serves government, healthcare, telecom, financial services and insurance companies. The company was founded in December 1999 and is headquartered in Monterey, CA.

Language Line Services has met the over-the-phone language interpretation and document translation needs of virtually all types of organizations. If, like so many other financial organizations, more of your customers are limited English speakers, you should know that Language Line Services interpreters are trained in financial terms, concepts and procedures. So, not only are they some of the finest in business of professional telephone interpretation, they also know just how important accuracy, neutrality and confidentiality are to you and to your valued customers.

The Dolan Co. provides professional and business information services to legal, financial and real estate sectors. It operates websites and produces events for targeted professional audiences. The firm also provides specialized information services covering legislative and regulatory activities and transcription, media monitoring and translation services. The company was founded by James P. Dolan in 1992 and is headquartered in Minneapolis, MN.