Matthew Bender

Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC (Credit Suisse Securities USA) is the broker/dealer division of Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, an investment banking company headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1998 and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Credit Suisse (USA), Inc., ultimately owned by Credit Suisse Group AG (SWX: CSGN) in Switzerland. Credit Suisse Securities USA offers a suite of equities, solutions and credit products and services which includes global securities sales, trading and execution, prime brokerage and comprehensive investment research. Their clients include financial institutions, corporations, governments, institutional investors, such as pension funds and hedge funds, and private individuals around the world.

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.

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.

Cornell University is an educational institution that offers undergraduate and post graduate programs. It was founded in 1865 and is based in Ithaca, NY.

Founded in 1958, Merrill Lynch Piece Fenner & Smith, Inc. is an SEC registered broker/dealer located in New York City. The firm is a subsidiary of BAC North America Holding Co. and their ultimate parent is Bank of America Corp. (NYSE BAC).

Barclays Capital, Inc. is a registered broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1997 and is a subsidiary of Barclays Group US, Inc., ultimately owned by Barclays plc (LON: BARC) in Great Britain. Barclays Capital provides large corporate, government and institutional clients a full spectrum of prime brokerage services which includes equities and fixed income financing, OTC Clearing, Futures and Foreign Exchange Prime Brokerage and access to industry insights and analytics from their Strategic Consulting team.

Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. LLC is a registered broker-dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1967 and is a subsidiary of Alliance Capital Management LLC, ultimately held by Equitable Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: EQH). Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. provides trading and executions services to their clients.

The Boston Consulting Group, Inc. engages in the provision of management consulting services. It specializes in automotive and mobility; biopharmaceuticals; consumer products; education; oil and gas; power and utilities; engineered products and infrastructure; financial institutions; and health care payers, providers, and services. It offers big data and advanced analytics; change management; client learning and enablement; and corporate development and financial services. The company was founded by Bruce Doolin Henderson in 1963 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Cowen & Co. LLC is a SEC-registered broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 2004 and is a subsidiary of Cowen Holdings, Inc., ultimately owned by The Toronto-Dominion Bank (TSE: TD) in Canada. Cowen & Co. offers industry-focused investment banking for growth-oriented companies, domain knowledge-driven research and a sales and trading platform for institutional investors. Their institutional sales and trading business serves both equity and fixed-income clients. Sales and trading execution platform is structured around the following key verticals: (1) healthcare (2) technology, telecommunications and media (TMT) (3) REITs and financials (4) aerospace and defense (5) consumer and (6) alternative energy.

Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc. (DBSI) is a SEC-registered broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1971 and is a wholly-owned investment banking and brokerage arm of DB U.S. Financial Markets Holding Corp., ultimately held by Deutsche Bank AG (NYSE: DB, FRA: DBK) in Germany. DBSI provides securities brokerage and investment advisory services to domestic and international private clients and institutions. They are also a primary dealer in US government securities as designated by the Federal Reserve.

Harbinger Capital Partners LLC (Harbinger) is a SEC-registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded by Philip Falcone in 2001 and is a subsidiary of Harbinger Holdings LLC. Harbinger provides advisory services on a discretionary basis to private investment funds (Harbinger Funds).

GoingVC Partners LLC (GoingVC) is a venture capital subsidiary of GoingVC, Inc. founded in 2016 by John Gannon and Arno Niazi. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

BEMAVEN designs and develops a personal brand building platform for executives and entrepreneurs. The firm offers Bemaven which offers personal brand kickoff, idea generation, professional and engaging blogging, automated publishing and sharing, and automated email newsletter. The company was founded by John Gannon, Amol R. Serva, and Steve Cheung and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Wallaroo Labs, Inc. operates an online platform to build and develops real time application. It offers Sendence Wallaroo technology. The company was founded by Vidyut Jain in 2015 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Fox Sports Interactive Media LLC develops new media initiatives for FOX Sports and FOX Sports Net. It operates a Website that acts as an online source of sports news, information, listings, games, and special features about programming on FOX Sports, FOX Sports Net and FOX Sports Radio. The company is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

Part of Deutsche Bank AG, Bankers Trust & Co. is a company that provides trust services. The company is based in New York, NY.

Turbonomic, Inc. develops a hybrid cloud management platform. It offers assure application performance, digital transformation, accelerate and de-risk cloud migrations, optimize public cloud spend, accelerate consolidation and refresh projects, optimize container platforms, and unleash devops agility solutions. The firm serves the education, financial services, government, and healthcare. The company was founded by Shmuel Kliger, Yuri Rabover, Shai Benjamin, Yechiam Yemini, and Danilo Florissi in 2009 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Chart Venture Partners is a Venture Capital firm, a subsidiary of The Chart Group LP founded in 2006 by Matt J. McCooe and Tim N. Teen. Chart Venture Partners is headquartered in New York.

Quantopian, Inc. develops online platform for building, developing and testing quantitative trading algorithms. It provides tools, infrastructure and a community for users to learn, test, and trade algorithmic strategies. The firm's users create and test algorithmic trading strategies in Python using an application programming interface and then can choose to trade with the strategies by connecting to a brokerage. The company was founded by John Fawcett and Jean Bredeche in 2011 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP engages in the provision of legal services. Its practices include: antitrust and competition; banking and finance; capital markets; copyright, trademark and false advertising; cyber, privacy and data innovation; employment law and litigation; energy; financial services litigation; global compliance and regulatory, infrastructure; intellectual property; patents; public finance; real estate; securities litigation; supreme court and appellate; tax advocacy; technology transactions; trials; and white collar, investigations, securities litigation and compliance. The company was founded by John R. Garboe in 1863 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Part of SVB Financial Group, MoffettNathanson LLC is a company that provides investment research. The company is based in New York, NY. The company was founded in 2013 by Michael Brian Nathanson, Craig Eder Moffett.

Stephens, Inc. is a full-service investment bank and brokerage firm headquartered in Little Rock, Arkansas. The firm was founded in 1933 and is a subsidiary of Susi Holdings, Inc., which is owned by Stephens Financial Services LLC. Stephens provides comprehensive securities sales and trading services, including customized solutions for clients in North America and abroad.

Grain Management LLC (Grain Management) is a private equity firm founded in 2007 by David Grain. The firm is headquartered in Washington, Columbia.

Alltel Communications LLC provides telecommunications equipment and services. It provides the connections for wireline, wireless, cable, broadcast and enterprise networks around the world. The company's network infrastructure equipment and professional services enable internet, data, video and voice services to residential, business and mobile subscribers. Alltel Communications was founded in 1943 and is headquartered in Little Rock, AR.

PowerBridge LLC develops and manages electric transmission lines and other energy infrastructure projects. It offers electric transmission, renewable energy, project finance, contracts and agreements, real estate, engineering and construction, permitting and regulatory compliance, and operations and administration. The company was founded in 2005 is headquartered in Fairfield, CT.

DigitalOcean LLC engages in the provision of videos web hosting platform services and development of cloud computing infrastructure. Its products include droplets,spaces, marketplaces, load balancers, block storage, pricing, and documentations. The company was founded by Ben Uretsky, Moisey Uretsky, Mitchell Wainer, Alec Hartman, and Jeff Carr in 2011 and is headquartered in New York, NY.