Rob Brown

Becker Capital Management, Inc. (BCM) is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Portland, Oregon and additional office in Seattle, Washington. The firm was founded by Patrick Becker, Sr. in 1976. BCM provides a range of investment management services for high-net-worth individuals, families, institutional investors and nonprofit organizations.

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.

Citigroup Global Markets, Inc. (Broker) (CGMI-Broker) is the broker/dealer division of Citigroup Global Markets, Inc., an investment bank headquartered in New York City with additional offices across the US. The firm was founded in 2004 and is a subsidiary of Citigroup Financial Products, Inc., ultimately held by Citigroup, Inc. (NYSE: C). CGMI-Broker covers all market capitalizations of the major global indices and provides macro and quantitative analysis of global markets and sector trends. Their core focus of the group is to help investing clients make informed decisions by providing value-added, independent, insightful analysis.

Baillie Gifford & Co. is an independent, global investment management firm headquartered in Edinburgh, UK. The firm was founded in 1908 and is wholly-owned by their partners. Baillie Gifford manages assets for pension funds, institutions, corporates, foundations, charities and retail investors. They are a socially responsible investor which works with their fund managers to assess ESG concerns both before and after investing in companies.

Balyasny Asset Management LP (BAM) is a multi-strategy hedge fund manager and SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. The firm’s predecessor, Balyasny Capital Management LLC (BCM), was founded in 2001 by Dmitry Balyasny, Scott Schroeder and Taylor O'Malley. In 2003, BCM converted from a limited liability company to a limited partnership. Then, in January 2004, their name was changed to Balyasny Asset Management LP. They are a subsidiary of Balyasny Asset Management Holdings LP. BAM provides investment advisory services to high net-worth individuals and institutional clients through privately offered pooled investment funds.

Mizuho Securities USA LLC is the US-based securities broker/dealer and futures commission merchant arm of Mizuho Americas LLC, ultimately held by Mizuho Financial Group, Inc. (TYO: 8411, NYSE: MFG) in Japan. Headquartered in New York City, the firm was founded in 1994 and provides institutional and corporate clients access to commodity and financial markets around the world. Mizuho Securities USA covers the following industries: Consumer, Energy, Financial Institutions, Financial Sponsors, Healthcare, Industrial & Diversified Industries, Power, Utilities & Infrastructure, Real Estate, and Technology, Media & Telecom (TMT). The firm and their affiliates hold memberships on all major futures and options exchanges worldwide.

Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC is a registered broker-dealer subsidiary of Morgan Stanley Domestic Holdings, Inc., ultimately owned by Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) in the US. Headquartered in New York City, the firm was founded in 1987 and provides debt and equity services including underwriting, M&A advice, securities dealing and brokerage and trade execution. Their client base ranges from large global institutional investors to hedge funds at the cutting edge of innovation in the industry.

SVM Asset Management Ltd. (SVM) is a privately-owned investment management firm based in Edinburgh, Scotland. Founded in 1990, SVM specializes in UK, European and global equities investments. The firm offers mutual funds (including an SRI fund), hedge funds and investment trusts to institutional and private investors.

Franklin Templeton Investment Management Ltd. (FTIML) is the Great Britain-based global investment management subsidiary of Franklin Templeton Global Investors Ltd., itself a subsidiary of Franklin Resources, Inc. (NYSE: BEN) in the US. Founded in 1985, FTIML is headquartered in London and provides investment advisory and portfolio management services to clients in jurisdictions worldwide, which include registered open-end and closed-end funds and unregistered funds, as well as Separate Accounts for institutional and high net-worth clients.

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.

Autocue Group Ltd. manufactures equipment and develops software for the broadcast industry. The firm offers conference teleprompter packages, teleprompter accessories, multi-user scripting systems, professional teleprompters, teleprompter software, mounting hardware, and robotic conference prompter systems. The company was founded in 1955 and is headquartered in Twickenham, the United Kingdom.

Part of Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria SA, Garanti Yatirim Menkul Kiymetler AS is a brokerage firm based in Istanbul, Turkey. The CEOs are Metin Ar, Utku Ergüder. Garanti Yatirim Menkul Kiymetler provides brokerage services. The Turkish company was founded in 1991 by Ferit Faik Sahenk.

Part of Deutsche Bank AG, Deutsche Bank AG (Hong Kong) is a financial institution that has been connecting worlds for 65 years. The company is based in Hong Kong, Hong Kong, and serves as the hub for corporate and commercial clients. The company's asset management division, DWS, is a market leader in Hong Kong with a broad product offering. Its corporate bank division is an established market leader in transaction banking, with a presence in 60 countries, including an extensive footprint in HK. The investment bank provides strategic advice to corporate and institutional clients, focusing on the bank’s traditional strengths in financing, advisory, fixed income, and currencies, together with a focused equity capital markets business. The private bank focuses on private customers across all segments as well as business clients, and in HK, this division is represented by a highly competitive wealth manager. The Chinese company was founded in 1958, and its CEO is Werner Steinmüller.

Archangel Investors Ltd. is a Private Equity firm, a subsidiary of Riverside Global Partners LLC founded in 1988 by Michael David Rutterford and Barry Edward Sealey. The firm is headquartered in Boston.

Bank of Scotland Plc (New York) is engaged in the provision of banking and asset management services. The company is located in New York, NY.

Mellanox Technologies Belfast Ltd. supplies hardware engines for content and network processing. It offers regular expression processor for application awareness and security processing; and parallel string matcher for high performance network processing related search and lookup functions. The firm’s products are used in various applications, such as stateful packet classification, deep packet inspection, access control list execution, flow classification, TCP and IP header lookup and content and URL inspection and filtering. The company was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Belfast, the United Kingdom.

The Brandtech Group LLC (The Brandtech Group) is a venture capital firm founded in 2015 by David Jones, Nick Emery, and Jean-Marc Antoni. The firm is headquartered in New York with additional offices in Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, Canada, Panama, UK, France, Germany, Switzerland, Greece, Netherlands, Ireland, Italy, Czech Rep, Slovakia, Norway, Poland, Sweden, Turkey, South Africa, India, Hong Kong, China, Taiwan, Singapore, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, Philippines, Australia and Indonesia.

Clearsight Investments AG provides investment management and fund advisory services. The company is headquartered in Pfaffikon, Switzerland.

Garanti Bank SA provides banking services. It focuses on retail, bonus card, small and medium-sized enterprises, and corporate. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Bucharest, Romania.

UK Music Masters Ltd. engages in the provision of musical instrument teaching services. The firm provides teaching, mentoring, financial support, and performance opportunities to musicians between 4 and 25. The company was founded by Victoria Robey and Itzhak Rashkovsky in 2008 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.