Rita Zanella Benson

Dow Jones & Co., Inc publishes financial information and news. It offers news through newspapers, newswires, websites, apps, newsletters, magazines, proprietary databases, conferences and more. The firm?s premier brands include The Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones Newswires, Factiva, Barron's, MarketWatch and SmartMoney. The company was founded by Edward Davis Jones, Charles Henry Dow and Charles Milford Bergstresser in 1882 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

eCollege.com provides information services to the postsecondary and K-12 education industries. Its eLearning division designs, builds and supports online degree, certificate/diploma and professional development programs. The company was founded by Bradley N. Cohen in 1966 and is headquartered in Denver, CO.

American Assets Investment Management LLC (AAIM) is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in San Diego, California. Founded in 2002, AAIM offers discretionary investment advisory services exclusively to qualified investors through pooled investment vehicles and separately managed accounts.

Silver Portal Capital LLC is a real estate investment and merchant banking advisory firm that offers strategic and financial advice, as well as capital raising services for private platform operators, public and non-traded REITs. Silver Portal Capital is based in La Jolla, CA. The private company also sponsors targeted real estate discretionary funds and tax-advantaged investment opportunities. The firm has been involved in advising and raising capital for over 150 transactions in the real estate sector.

Upserve, Inc. operates as a restaurant management cloud-software company. Its platform connects social and payment networks facilitating consumers to recommend purchase experiences, and discover new places and products through friends. The firm offers products to the restaurant, bar, liquor, retail, and e-commerce sectors. The company was founded by Angus M. Davis in 2009 and is headquartered in Providence, RI.

Shopcore Properties LP operates as a real estate investment trust. It seeks investment opportunities throughout the U.S., but focuses on the West Coast, East Coast and Sunbelt regions. The firm generally leases anchor space to national and regional supermarket chains, big-box retailers and select national retailers that frequently offer necessity and value oriented items and generate regular consumer traffic. The company was founded on December 16, 2009 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

KPMG LLP engages in the provision of audit, tax, and advisory services. It serves the banking and capital markets, building, construction and real estate, consumer and retail, energy, natural resources and chemicals, financial services, government and public sector, healthcare and life sciences, industrial manufacturing, insurance, media and entertainment, private equity, technology, telecommunications, and venture capital industries. The company was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Optimum Investment Advisors LLC (OIA) is a registered investment advisor headquartered in Chicago, Illinois and was founded in 1989. The firm is a subsidiary of Optimum Investment Group LLC. OIA provides investment advisory services consisting primarily of discretionary asset management through use of equity, fixed income and balanced (between equity securities such as stocks and fixed income securities such as municipal and government bonds) portfolios. Their clients include individual persons, investment companies, pension and profit sharing plans, trusts, estates, charitable organizations, corporations or similar business and governmental entities.

Tavve Software Co. develops security and network management software. Its software allows companies to securely manage applications and devices across firewall partitioned networks. The firm's product include ZoneRanger is an application-layer proxy firewall appliance for management protocol traffic and PacketRanger which is a smart and fast UDP packet director. The company was founded by Tim Clark, Gary Schlachter and Anthony Edwards in 1998 and is headquartered in Morrisville, NC.

Summit Investment Management Ltd. (Summit) is a SEC-registered investment advisor and wealth management firm headquartered in Greenfield, Wisconsin. The Edward J. Gaffney & Elizabeth A. Gaffney Revocable Trust, the Chandler Herrera Family Trust, and Thomas A. Carroll are the principal owners of the firm. Founded in 1987, Summit offers a wide range of investment portfolios for individuals, institutions and businesses.

Katalyst Ventures is a venture capital firm headquartered in Conshohocken, Pennsylvania.

Univa Corp. engages in the development of enterprise-class workload management and containerization solutions. Its solutions include life sciences, manufacturing, oil and gas, electronic design, education and research, government, and transportation. The firm's products include Univa Grid Engine; Navops Launch. The company was founded in 2004 by Steve Tuecke, Ian Foster, Rich Miller, and Carl Kesselman and is headquartered in Hoffman Estates, IL.

The Pritzker Group (Venture Capital) (Pritzker Group Venture Capital) is a venture capital division of The Pritzker Group founded in 1996 by Jay Robert Pritzker and Tony N. Pritzker. The firm is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts, Inc. is an American company that provides an array of industry data prepared by NAREIT staff and other outside sources. The non-profit company is based in Washington. The company specializes in REITs, or real estate investment trusts, which are companies that own or finance income-producing real estate across a range of property sectors. Most REITs trade on major stock exchanges, and they offer a number of benefits to investors. Steven A. Wechsler has been the CEO of the company since 1997.

TicketsNow.com, Inc. operates as an online resale marketplace for sports, concert and theater tickets. Its online marketplace enables buyers to choose and purchase event tickets from licensed brokers and individual sellers. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Rolling Meadows, IL.

Freightwaves, Inc. engages in the provision of market data and analytics, news, and commentary for the trucking and FreightTech space. Its product, SONAR, is a freight market analytics tool which provides data in the transportation and logistics sector. The company was founded by Stephen Craig Fuller and is headquartered in Chattanooga, TN.

HyperQuest, Inc. engages in the provision of software solutions for claims process automation, automotive estimate auditing, alternative parts sourcing, and automated claims systems communications and integration. Its products include HQ Audit, HQ Inspect, HQ Subrogation, HQ Parts, HQ Dispatch, HQ Conversion, HQ Communication, HQ Procurement, and HQ Business Intelligence. The company was founded by Jeffrey J. Hogan in 1998 and is headquartered in Schaumburg, IL.

Ocient, Inc. provides technology for the storage of data to the various companies. The company was founded by Christopher S. Gladwin, Joe Jablonski, and George Kondiles in 2018 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

National Venture Capital Association provides business association services. It facilitates networking opportunities and provides research data to its members. The company is headquartered in Washington, DC.

Plus One Robotics, Inc. develops computer vision software to enable robotic automation in supply chain applications. The company was founded by Erik Nieves, Shaun Edwards and Paul Hvass in 2016 and is headquartered in San Antonio, TX.

Specright, Inc. develops an enterprise software for data management. It allows companies to manage their packaging specification data in real-time. The firm offers real time analytics and reporting, bill of materials, ready-made dashboards, and standard packaging commodity templates. The company was founded by Matthew Wright in 2014 and is headquartered in Irvine, CA.

Alpha Venture Partners LLC (Alpha Venture Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 2013 by Steve B. Brotman. The firm is headquartered in New York.

American Assets Capital Advisers LLC (AACA) is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in San Diego, California. Founded in 2013, AACA manages separate accounts and mutual funds for institutions and individuals. focusing on global real estate securities, which include REITs, real estate operating companies, lodging and gaming, housing, land development and real estate services, and real estate finance.