Martha Shear

Informa Media, Inc. publishes trade magazines. It provides tools and information that help business professionals to do their jobs better. Its products include fleet discovery, aviation week application, delicious living newsletter, and in-article video. The company was founded in 1886 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

IndexIQ Advisors LLC (IndexIQ) is a SEC-registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 2007 and is wholly owned subsidiary of IndexIQ LLC. They became an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of New York Life Insurance Co. in 2015. IndexIQ provides a broad array of investment advisory services to registered investment advisers, broker-dealers, Registered Funds operating as ETFs and Mutual Funds, and other clients. The firm offers its services to UMA, Wrap, and other advisory programs of third-party sponsors.

ETF.com LLC provides news, analysis and events for exchange-traded funds. It operates different publications in the field of ETFs and index-related investments. The firm which also provides conferences and events in the ETF space is majority-owned by its managing partners. The company was founded by James Wiandt in 2001 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Rafferty Asset Management LLC (RAM) is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor and mutual fund manager headquartered in New York City. Founded in 1997, the firm provides investment advisory services to registered investment companies and subsidiaries of registered investment companies. RAM also serves as the investment advisor and provides advisory services to the Direxion Funds (formerly the Potomac Funds), the Direxion Insurance Trust (formerly the Potomac Insurance Trust) and the Direxion Shares ETF Trust.

Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC (GS&Co.) is a securities brokerage firm headquartered in New York City. Founded in 1927, the firm is a subsidiary of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE: GS). GS&Co. provides services to help hedge funds manage risk, monitor portfolios, maintain liquidity and build their businesses. They offer clients access to global equity and derivatives markets, as well as foreign exchange, commodities, European Lefts, rates and credit across the Americas, Europe and Asia. The firm proactively monitors capital markets, searching for pockets of liquidity and news that may require changes to those strategies. Integration with the Goldman Sachs network gives clients access to the firm's sectored block trades and their insights into price discovery. Their electronic trading program provides clients with tools to manage their trades from pre-trade analytics to post-trade analysis.

New York Life Insurance Co. engages in the provision of insurance products and services. It offers life insurance, retirement income, long term care, investments, and premier services. The company was founded on April 12, 1845 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Bowdoin College is an independent, nonsectarian, coeducational residential, undergraduate liberal arts institution founded in 1794. It is located in Brunswick, ME.

Metamarkets Group, Inc. provides price data and predictive analytics to publishers and web companies. It offers inventory discovery, marketplace monitor, and bid monitor. The company was founded by David Soloff and Michael E. Driscoll in 2010 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Lore, Inc. provides online educational services. The company was founded by Joseph Cohen, Daniel Getelman and Jim Grandpre in June 2010 and is headquartered in Flanders, NY.

Part of Rafferty Asset Management LLC, Direxion Investments is a Chinese company that provides investment services. The company is based in Hong Kong, Hong Kong.

EquBot LLC is an investment management company that utilizes machine learning and artificial intelligence to help investment professionals make better decisions. The company is based in San Francisco, CA and has subsidiaries in India. The company's proprietary platform, equbot, allows users to create or analyze portfolios using their machine learning algorithms and IBM Watson's natural language processing. EquBot was founded by Christopher Natividad, Art Amador, and Chida Khatua, with Chida Khatua serving as CEO since incorporation.

Bitwise Asset Management, Inc. (Bitwise) is an independent crypto asset management firm headquartered in San Francisco, California. The firm was founded by Hunter Horsley and Hong Kim in 2017. Bitwise manages the crypto index fund (OTCQX: BITW) and pioneer products spanning bitcoin, Ethereum, DeFi, and crypto-focused equity indexes.

Bitwise Ethereum Fund LLC provides investing services. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Part of Bitwise Asset Management, Inc., Bitwise Uniswap (UNI) Fund provides investment services. The company is based in San Francisco, CA. The CEO of the company is Hunter Horsley.

Advisor Circle, Inc. is a media and events company that uses technology to serve the wealth management and wealthtech industries. Advisor Circle is based in Marlborough, MA. The company connects financial advisors, investors, fund managers, and wealthtech companies through in-person and digital events, one-to-one meetings, and networking programs. Advisor Circle provides data insights, analysis, research, and thought leadership to help financial professionals make informed buying decisions. The company was founded in 2020 by Matthew Middleton, John Swolfs, and Matthew Hougan, who have a successful track record of driving meaningful events for the financial advice and ETF industries over the last decade. Matthew Middleton has been the CEO since incorporation.

Bitwise Bitcoin ETP Trust is an exchange traded fund. Its investment objective is to seek to provide exposure to the value of bitcoin held by the Trust, less the expenses of the Trust's operations. The fund is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.