Phil A. Pendergraft

Lenovo EMC Ltd. engages in the provision of server message block storage services. The company is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Cargill Investor Services, Inc. provides trading and execution services. It also performs securities research, foreign exchange & risk management services, as well as outsourced facilities and technology management. The company has seven offices in the United States, Europe and Singapore. Cargill was founded in 1973 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

OneChicago LLC engages in providing electronic exchange services. It focuses on futures on individual stocks, narrow-based indexes, and ETFs. The firm offers single stock futures exchange services to invest and trade equity products for traders, brokers, and investors. It also provides market data, including quotes, list of market data vendors, market data vendor fees and licensing and various products. The company was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

MF Global Holdings Ltd. provides execution and clearing services for exchange-traded and over-the-counter derivative products. It offers customized solutions in global cash and derivatives markets. The firm also provides research and market commentary to help clients make trading decisions, as well as providing client financing and securities lending services. The company was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Southern Methodist University is a private university near the center of Dallas, SMU offers undergraduate, graduate, and professional programs through seven schools in the humanities and sciences, business, the performing, visual, and communication arts, engineering, education and human development, law, and theology.

NYSE Chicago, Inc. offers technology based national securities exchange services. It provides business to transact in all equity securities traded on NYSE, AMEX, NASDAQ, or other national securities exchanges. CHX acts as a venue for hedge funds, options market markers, quantitative, professional and active individual traders that require immediate and automated execution. The firm provides services through its technology products including CHXBD, CHX SHARE and SNAP. The company was founded in 1882 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corp. provides clearance, settlement and information services. The firm offers institutional trade processing, clearing, settlement and asset, wealth management, repository and derivatives and data services. The company was founded in 1999 is headquartered in New York, NY.

VarTec Telecom, Inc. provides local and long-distance telecommunications services to business and residential customers in the US, Canada and Europe. It has its own switching and network infrastructure in the U.S. and Europe. The company was founded by A. Joe Mitchell Jr. in February, 1989 and is located in Carrollton, TX.

Operation HOPE, Inc. operates as non-profit organization that provides credit counseling, case management, economic education, loan preparation and outreach services to the community. The company was founded by John Hope Bryant in 1992 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

Ernst & Young provides accounting services. Its services include auditing, accounting, tax and transaction services, assurance and advisory business, online transaction advisory and a wide range of financial services. The company was founded by Arthur Young and Alwin C. Ernst in 1881 and is headquartered in Kansas City, MO.

Hilltop Securities, Inc. (dba HilltopSecurities) is a broker/dealer firm headquartered in Dallas, Texas. The firm was founded in 1946 as Southwest Securities, Inc. and they a subsidiary of Hilltop Securities Holdings LLC. Hilltop Securities provides a full array of trading and execution services for their clients.

Founded in 1987, SAMCO Capital Markets, Inc. is a broker/dealer headquartered in Austin, Texas with additional offices in Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, New York City and Edmund, Oklahoma. The firm specializes in serving financial institutions. Their expertise lies in public finance and trading, institutional sales, taxable fixed-income trading, high yield and public funds management. SAMCO provides advisory services to issuers of municipal debt in the Southwest and Southeast U.S. Their traders and underwriters make primary and secondary markets in municipal bonds on a national basis. The firm provides advisory services to issuers of municipal debt in the Southwestern and Southeastern U.S. SAMCO's institutional sales department provides coverage of both tier-one national accounts, regional banks and trust departments. They are a leading distributor in the Southwestern U.S. for bank-qualified new issuances. The firm is active in trading and positioning taxable fixed-income securities, including U.S. Treasuries, Agencies, mortgage backed securities, collateralized mortgage obligations, corporate securities and municipal bonds, including high yield. SAMCO's public funds management group specializes in investment, financial management and banking for public entities such as counties, cities and school districts.

Part of Enviro-Serv, Inc., Omnitrix Technologies, Inc. develops a suite of wireless software products for next generation computing. The company is based in San Jose, CA. Omnitrix Technologies was acquired by Enviro-Serv, Inc. on April 10, 2002 for $1.92 million.

Chicago Board of Trade provides trade derivative facilities. It allows speculators throughout the world to interpret economic data, news, and other information. The company was founded on April 3, 1848 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

The Executives Club of Chicago operates as a premier membership organization and business forum. The non-profit company is based in Chicago, IL.

The Society of Actuaries is an organization that provides research and industry news on various topics such as health care, predictive analytics, climate change, risk management, life insurance, modeling, pension and retirement, public policy, law and regulation. The private company is based in Schaumburg, IL. The company aims to help individuals advance their careers.

Service Life & Casualty Insurance Co. provides life insurance services. The company is headquartered in Austin, TX.

Part of Service Group, Service Lloyds Insurance Co. is a nationwide privately owned company that specializes in workers' compensation. The company is based in Austin, TX. Service Lloyds is rated A- (Excellent) by AM Best and is known for providing quality workers' compensation products with exceptional support and personal service. The company's approach involves not only providing agents and policyholders with a quality workers' compensation product but also with the support and personal service that makes Service Lloyds a leader in the industry. The company's underwriting, claims, audit, marketing, and loss control staff are all very professional and easy to work with, according to agents who have partnered with Service Lloyds. J. Kelly Gray has been the CEO of the company since 1986.

National Futures Association is a self-regulatory organization for the derivatives industry. The non-profit company is based in Chicago, IL. The company's focus is on providing innovative and effective regulatory programs. The company was founded by Leonid Adolfovich Melamed.

Tactico, Inc. (Tactico) is a venture capital firm founded in 2007 by Liam Cheung. The firm is headquartered in Montreal,Canada.

Sun Holdings LLC operates as a holding company. The company was founded on February 2, 2005 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Moka Financial Technologies, Inc. engages in the provision mobile personal finance platform. It offers Mylo an investment application. The company was founded by Philip Robert Barrar in 2015 and is headquartered in Montreal, Canada.

Humi, Inc. provides HR software solutions. The firm is a complete cloud-based HR software solution designed and built for companies in Canada. The company was founded by Drew Millington, Kevin Kliman, Simon J. Bourgeois and Matt Loszak and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

Futures Industry Association operates an international swaps and derivatives association. The non-profit company is based in Washington and has subsidiaries in the United States. Walt Lukken has been the CEO of the American company since 2012.