Thomas Fay

The Options Clearing Corp. provides equity derivatives clearing services. It provides central counterparty clearing and settlement services to stock exchanges and trading platforms for options, financial futures, security futures and securities lending transactions. The company was founded in 1973 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

General Atlantic LLC (General Atlantic) is a private equity firm founded in 1980 by Charles F. Feeney. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Instinet LLC is a SEC-registered broker-dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm is the equities execution services arm of the Nomura Group. The firm was founded in 1969 and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Instinet Holdings, Inc., which is ultimately owned by Nomura Holdings, Inc. (TYO: 8604) in Japan. Instinet offers the institutional investment community a suite of tailorable solutions, which includes market insights and commentary, full-service trading desks, advanced algorithmic trading strategies, access to unique and specialized liquidity via their array of crossing pools, and a set of workflow solutions.

Schwab Charles & Co., Inc. engages in the provision of investment products and services to retirement and other benefit participants. It offers trading, banking, small business solutions, investment tools and research. The company was founded in 1971 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Ometric Corporation provides innovative solutions to embed analytical technology into industrial processes. Ometric's SpectrInline Processware™ utilizes patented Multivariate Optical Computing™ to perform spectroscopy at the speed of light, thus providing real-time, in-line process control and final product testing to a variety of industries, including pharmaceuticals, chemicals, agriculture, food and beverage, pet nutrition, environmental, plastics, oil and gas, and homeland security.

SynapSense Corp. provides data center infrastructure management solutions. It offers data center optimization platform, environmental monitoring systems, power usage monitoring, active cooling control, data center assessment and thermal mapping and humidity mapping systems. The company was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in Folsom, CA.

LitePoint Corporation designs, develops, and supports wireless testing solutions for developers of wireless devices and consumer electronics, contract manufacturers, and wireless integrated circuit designers. The company offers a range of testing solutions for manufacturing facilities, radio frequency laboratories, and connectivity and cellular chipsets. The company was founded by Benny Madsen, Bouas Spiros and Christian Olgaard in May 2000 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

R2 Semiconductor, Inc. operates as a power management company which specializes in semiconductor chip manufacturing. It develops novel analog semiconductors for applications including mobile devices. The firm also supplies semiconductor devices through wholesale and retail stores. The company was founded by Bret Rothenberg in 2008 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

tastytrade, Inc. owns and operates an online financial network. It provides financial information, investment strategies, and entertainment related to options trading and the stock market. The company was founded by Tom Sosnoff in 2011 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

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.

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.

RBC Capital Markets LLC is a full-service brokerage and financial services firm headquartered in New York City. They are a direct subsidiary of RBC USA Holdco Corp. and a wholly-owned indirect subsidiary of Royal Bank of Canada (TSE, NYSE: RY). Founded in 2010, the firm is comprised of 3 major business lines: the Private Client Group, the Fixed-Income Group and the Clearing and Execution Services Group. The Private Client Group serves individual investors, while the Fixed-Income Group provides services to institutions, municipalities and non-profit organizations. The Clearing and Execution Services Group is a provider of clearing and execution services to independent brokers/dealers throughout the US. RBC Capital Markets focuses on the following sectors: communications, media, consumer/retail, diversified industries, energy, financial institutions, forest products, healthcare, infrastructure finance, mining & metals, real estate, social infrastructure, technology and the US municipal markets.

Natural Soda, Inc. produces sodium bicarbonate products to the food, pharmaceutical, industrial and animal feed markets. The company was founded in 1900 and is headquartered in Rifle, CO.

Part of Nomura Holdings, Inc., Instinet, Inc. provides financial services. The company is based in New York, NY.

Lazard Group LLC provides financial advisory, asset management, and other financial services. The firm offers services related to mergers and acquisitions, strategic advisory, middle market advisory, capital markets and capital structure advisory, sovereign advisory, restructuring, and private fund advisory. The company was founded in 1840 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Sandia National Laboratories develops science based technologies. The company provides research services in nuclear weapons, energy and infrastructure assurance, nonproliferation, and defense systems. The company was founded in 1948 and is headquartered in Albuquerque, NM.

Abilita Therapeutics, Inc. is a biotechnology company that focuses on discovering and developing drugs that target challenging human membrane proteins with high medical impact, such as GPCRs, ion channels, and transporters. The company is based in San Diego, CA. The company's internal drug discovery pipeline is focused on treating cancer and chronic pain. Abilita Bios EMP™ platform fuels research collaborations with pharmaceutical and biotech partners. The company was founded in 2014 by Mauro Mileni, who has been the CEO since 2014.

Instinet Europe Ltd. is a brokerage firm headquartered in London, UK. The firm was founded in 1985 and is a subsidiary of Instinet International Ltd., which is owned by Nomura Holdings, Inc. (TYO: 8604) in Japan. Instinet Europe offers the institutional investment community a suite of tailorable solutions, which includes market insights and commentary, full-service trading desks, advanced algorithmic trading strategies, access to unique and specialized liquidity via the firm’s array of crossing pools, and a set of workflow solutions.

FYR Diagnostics, Inc. is a healthcare company that is revolutionizing the industry by creating diagnostic solutions that use new understandings of disease to develop the next generation of liquid biopsies. The company is based in Missoula, MT. The company uses extracellular vesicles (EVs) and other innovative biomarkers to bridge the gaps between healthcare, patients, and disease. FYR Diagnostics was founded by Braxton Norwood and David Booth, and the CEO is Chris Booth.

Graphiant, Inc. provides cloud connectivity solutions through their edge network, which simplifies provisioning enterprise connectivity solutions with rock-solid security at a fraction of the cost of SD-WAN. The company is based in Fremont, CA. The company's agile, elastic network can be a perfect alternative and SD-WAN replacement, with the performance of and low costs of SD-WAN. The company was founded by Khalid Raza, Stefan Olofsson, and Khalid Raza has been the CEO since incorporation.

Clickatell, Inc. provides mobile messaging services. It offers developers? central, an interface to global short message services (SMS) gateway that allows users to manage various SMS API connections, monitor campaigns, do reporting, make online payments, receive invoices, add sub-users, and more;; provides additional APIs and code scripts for use with various interfaces and support integration with product documents; allows APIs to integrate various systems or applications with global SMS messaging gateway; and adds SMS short codes. The company was founded by Pieter de Villiers, Patrick Lawson, Casper de Villiers and Danie du Toit in June 2000 and is headquartered in Redwood City, CA.

Qwikker, Inc. provides wireless network appliances. It provides solutions for out of home application, such as kiosks, bus shelters and airports; retail application comprising shopping centers, grocery stores, and specialty retail outlets; and event applications, including music festivals, museum openings, sporting games and fashion shows. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in New York, NY.