Dimitris J. Bertsimas

RiverSource Investments LLC, formerly American Express Financial Corp., is a registered investment advisor and mutual fund manager headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota with offices in New York City, Maryland, Massachusetts and California. The firm is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Ameriprise Financial Services, Inc. (NYSE: AMP). RiverSource Investments provides investment management services to the RiverSource Investments family of funds (formerly the American Express Funds). The firm also provides investment management services for institutional clients, alternative investments, insurance assets and a managed account program.

Dynamic Ideas LLC provides quantitative analysis and portfolio optimization consulting services. The firm publishes books with ideas in the areas of analytics, operations research, and their applications. The company was founded by Dimitris J. Bertsimas and is headquartered in Belmont, MA.

D2Hawkeye, Inc. provides healthcare data services. The firm offers integrated medical and financial databases, applying proprietary evidence-based medical rules, and provides an intuitive, easy-to-use ASP-based interface for medical analytics and reporting. The company was founded by Christian J Kryder in July 2001 and is headquartered in Waltham, MA.

Tri-Continental Corp. is a diversified, closed-end management investment company, which invests primarily for the longer term. Its objective is to produce future growth of both capital and income while providing reasonable current income. The company was founded on January 14, 1929 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Columbia Management Investment Advisers LLC (CMIA) is a registered investment advisor and mutual fund manager headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. The firm is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Ameriprise Financial, Inc. (NYSE: AMP). The firm was formed in 2010 as the result of Ameriprise Financial Services' (AFS) acquisition of the long-term asset management business of Columbia Management Group (CMG) from Bank of America. AFS merged CMG's long-term asset management business with their subsidiary, RiverSource Investments LLC, under the name Columbia Management Investment Advisors. CMIA offers equity and fixed-income retail and institutional investment products for various types of clients.

SilkRoute Global, Inc. designs engineering solution software. It offers rapid implementation and integration approach solutions in the manufacturing, distribution, and retail industries by providing products such as SkyLight, skypulse, OmniSky and SkyPrize. The company was founded on June 13, 2008 and is headquartered in Troy, MI.

Part of The National Academies of Science, the National Academy of Engineering operates as a professional membership organization. The company is based in Washington.

Benefits Science LLC develops cloud-based software platform to help employers’ decisions. It offers consulting services, healthcare cost management, and population health and well-being analytics. The company was founded by Dimitris J. Bertsimas, Stephen Sofoul, and Sid Mann in 2012 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

SAVVI Financial LLC operates as an investment advisor. The company was founded by Dimitris Bertsimas, Gina Mourtzinou, Steve Kokkotos, Alex Sauer-Budge and Adrian Becker in 2013 and is headquartered in Waltham, MA.