Nathan R. Wallace

Congress Asset Management Co. LLP (Congress Asset) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. The firm was founded by Alfred Lagan in 1985 and is majority owned by the Lagan Holding Company Trust. Congress Asset provides discretionary and model portfolio investment management services to individual and institutional clients who include charitable organizations, pension and profit-sharing plans, including plans subject to the Taft-Hartley Act and the Employee Retirement and Income Security Act (ERISA), state and municipal government entities, corporations, taxable and tax-exempt institutions, high net worth individuals and commingled investment vehicles such as mutual funds.

Founded in 1969, HSBC Securities (U.S.A.) Inc. is an SEC-registered brokerage firm and registered futures commission merchant located in New York City. The firm is a wholly-owned subsidiary of HSBC North America Holdings, Inc. and their ultimate parent is HSBC Holdings Plc. (NYSE: HBC). HSBC Securities (U.S.A.) is a member of FINRA, the NYSE and the SIPC. Their securities and annuity products are provided by registered representatives and insurance agents of HSBC Securities (U.S.A.). In California, HSBC Securities (U.S.A.) conducts insurance business as HSBC Securities Insurance Services. Insurance products are offered through insurance agents of HSBC Insurance Agency (U.S.A.) Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of HSBC Bank U.S.A. NA and an indirectly wholly-owned subsidiary of HSBC Holdings plc. The company also engages in investment banking underwriting, dealing and brokering of debt and equity securities and futures contracts and is a primary dealer in U.S. Government and federal agency securities.

University of Southern California is a private research university that mainly offers undergraduate, graduate & other higher education. The university was founded in 1880 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

APG Asset Management US, Inc. (APG US) is a SEC-registered investment advisor and pension fund manager headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1998 and is a subsidiary of APG Asset Management NV (APG NL), ultimately held by Stichting Pensioenfonds ABP, the pension fund for Dutch government employees and other civil service employees. APG US provides investment advisory services to ABP and other Dutch pension funds directly and/or through the Dutch pension funds’ participation in various “fondsen voor gemene rekening” (funds for the joint account of the participants and referred to herein as, “FGRs”) sponsored and controlled by APG NL.

Algert Global LLC is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in San Francisco, California. The firm was founded by Peter Algert in 2002 as Algert Coldiron Investors LLC. Algert Global manages global absolute return and active long-only strategies for institutional investors.

O'Reilly Media, Inc. publishes books and magazines online. Its solutions are used for teams, enterprise, individuals, government, and education. The company was founded by Timothy F. O'Reilly in 1978 and is headquartered in Sebastopol, CA.

CNBC LLC provides television programming services. It focuses on different sectors such as sports, automotive, technology, real estate, and energy. The company was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in Englewood Cliffs, NJ.

Smallthought Systems, Inc. provides web based data management solutions. The firm offers a Web-based application that lets users to create reports, sort and group data, collaborate with others, filter data, create formulas and subtotals, pivot tables, design forms, share and collect data, prepare calendars, charts and maps. The company was founded by Andrew Catton and Avi Bryant on February 2, 2005 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.

SK Ventures Management LLC (SK Ventures Management) is a venture capital firm founded in 2011 by Eric Norlin. The firm is headquartered in Siesta Key, Florida.