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Board of Supervisors of Louisiana State University A & M is an elite and historic university that offers academic excellence, financial aid, scholarships, and a vibrant community with lots of ways to get involved. The private company was founded in 1860 and is based in Baton Rouge, LA. The university has various centers for advising, counseling, disability services, and student health. LSU also offers campus safety, residential life, university recreation, campus dining, and events calendar. The university has subsidiaries in the United States. The Board of Supervisors of Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College manages the university, which is tasked as the state’s research leader, offering degrees at the highest level of learning, providing educational and business services to the people of the state, and overseeing the state’s safety net hospital system.

Based in Baton Rouge, Louisiana State Employees' Retirement System (LASERS) was created in 1946 to provide retirement allowances and other benefits for state officers and employees and their beneficiaries.

Pennington Biomedical Research Center is a medical research center affiliated with Louisiana State University. The center is located in state-of-the-art research facilities on a 222-acre campus. The non-profit company is based in Baton Rouge, LA. The center conducts basic, clinical, and population research to understand the triggers of obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, cancer, and dementia. With over 500 employees, the research enterprise includes a network of 40 clinics, research laboratories, and 13 highly specialized core service facilities.

Vinson & Elkins LLP provides legal services. It maintains civil practice, covering areas such as litigation, public policy, transaction, and energy law. The firm serves the clients including companies from the aviation, energy, financial services, health care, and technology industries. The company was founded in 1917 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

MRE Consulting Ltd. provides information technology services, business consulting and staffing solutions. It offers information technology (IT) consulting services, such as architecture and technical applications design and integration, custom applications development, systems integration, disaster planning, recovery, development of Websites and Web services. The company was founded by Michael K. Short and Shane J. Merz in 1994 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

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.

Part of Holland & Knight LLP, Thompson & Knight LLP is a full-service law firm that provides legal solutions to clients and communities around the world. The company is based in Dallas, TX. Established in 1887, Thompson & Knight has approximately 300 attorneys and has been recognized in the Best Lawyers in ® for 10 consecutive years. Thompson & Knight was acquired by Holland & Knight LLP on August 01, 2021.

Piper Sandler & Co. (Broker) (PSC-Broker) is the full-service brokerage division of Piper Sandler & Co., a financial service firm headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota. They are a subsidiary of Piper Sandler Companies (NYSE: PIPR). The firm was founded in 1969 and previously known as Piper Jaffray & Co. They became Piper Sandler & Co. when Piper Jaffray Companies and Sandler O’Neill & Partners, L.P. merged to become Piper Sandler Companies in 2020. PSC-Broker provides brokerage and investment banking services to financial institutions, corporations and other financial investors. Their core focus sectors are Agriculture, renewables & cannabis, Business services, Chemicals & Materials, Consumer, Diversified industrials & services, Energy, Financial services, financial sponsors, Healthcare, and Technology.

Northwestern University is a private institution founded in 1851 to serve the Northwest Territory, an area that now includes the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and parts of Minnesota. Northwestern has three campuses

Truist Securities, Inc. is a registered broker-dealer headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. The firm was founded in 1894 as SunTrust Robinson Humphrey, Inc. In 2020, the firm was renamed following the integration of SunTrust Robinson Humphrey and BB&T Capital Markets. The firm is a subsidiary of Truist Financial Corp. (NYSE: TFC) and is an active market maker in equity and fixed-income products. Truist Securities delivers a comprehensive range of strategic advisory, capital raising, risk management, and financing solutions, as well as a dynamic suite of sales, trading, and research services in both fixed-income and equity. Their strategies are carefully tailored to meet the needs and vision of their clients.

T3 Trading Group LLC operates as a securities brokerage dealer. The firm specializes in technical analysis to develop trading strategies. The company was founded by Sean Hendelman, Scott Redler, Marc Sperling, Nadav Sapeika and Evan Lazarus and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Founded in 1987, Johnson Rice & Co. LLC is an institutional research and brokerage firm located in New Orleans, Louisiana. In 1991, the firm began offering investment banking services. Johnson Rice & Co. focuses primarily on the energy and specialty retail sectors

Meridian Development Group provides real estate investing services. It specializes in acquisition, development, and management of office properties in major markets throughout the eastern half of the United States. The company was founded by Steven Kossoff in 2000 and is headquartered in Tampa, FL.

New Iberia Healthcare LLC provides hospital services. The firm's services include cardiovascular, general surgery, orthopedics, emergency care, outpatient surgery, and rehabilitation services. The company was founded in 1920 and is located in New Iberia, LA.

St. Martin Hospital, Inc. owns and operates hospitals. Its services include cancer, cardiovascular, emergency medicine, neuroscience, pediatrics, primary care and pulmonology. The company was founded in 1969 and is headquartered in Breaux Bridge, LA.

Audubon Engineering Co. LLC provides engineering consulting services with expertise in process design, detail engineering, automation and project management in the upstream, midstream and downstream markets. It offers the advantage of single-source efficiency throughout the entire project and along the entire vertical, from the wellhead to the refinery. The company was founded in 1997 by Ryan Hanemann, Robert Rosamond and J. Denis Taylor and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

Wells Fargo Securities LLC (WFS) is the broker/dealer subsidiary of EVEREN Capital Corp., ultimately owned by Wells Fargo & Co. (NYSE: WFC). Headquartered in New York, WFS delivers a comprehensive suite of banking, capital markets and advisory solutions, such as a full complement of sales, trading and research capabilities, to corporate, government and institutional clients.

Dentgroup Group LLC, do-business-as Dent Wealth Advisors (DWA), is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor and wealth management firm headquartered in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The firm was founded by Fred Dent III in 1997. DWA provides advisory services to individuals, high net-worth individuals, pension and profit-sharing plans, charitable organizations and corporations or other businesses.

Greater Baton Rouge Food Bank provides food for charitable agencies. It distributes food to a variety of community agencies such as pantries, meal sites, homes, shelters and soup kitchens which serve the people in need. The company was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in Baton Rouge, LA.

Part of Bank of Cyprus Holdings Plc, Kermia Ltd. provides real estate development services. The company is based in Nicosia, Cyprus.

Pat Williams Construction Inc. provides general contracting and pre-construction services. Its primary focus is on public bid work, military and governmental construction, churches, private and commercial construction, multi-family housing (HUD and private), hotel and motel projects, schools and university projects, and high end residential work. The company was founded by Patrick L. Williams in 1978 and is headquartered in Leesville, LA.

Auvest Capital Management Ltd. is a private company based in Nicosia, Cyprus. The Cypriot company was founded by Marios S. Kalochoritis.

Institute of Directors Cyprus operates as a consulting company. The company is headquartered in Nicosia, Cyprus.

Part of ABH Holdings SA, ALTBANK PJSC is an international commercial bank. The company is based in Kiev, Ukraine. ALTBANK PJSC was acquired by ABH Ukraine Ltd. from Bank of Cyprus Public Co. Ltd. on January 22, 2016 for $274.66 million.

The Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers, Inc. is a non-profit organization that owns and operates technical professional association. It provides membership and services, societies and communities support, publication services, and conferences and events. The company was founded in 1884 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Loggerhead Partners engages in the provision of advisory & management consulting services, and human capital solutions to improve financial and operational performance for both private individuals and institutional clients. The company was founded by Marios S. Kalochoritis in 2014 and is headquartered in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.