Jeff L. Tomasulo

Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC (Credit Suisse Securities USA) is the broker/dealer division of Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, an investment banking company headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1998 and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Credit Suisse (USA), Inc., ultimately owned by Credit Suisse Group AG (SWX: CSGN) in Switzerland. Credit Suisse Securities USA offers a suite of equities, solutions and credit products and services which includes global securities sales, trading and execution, prime brokerage and comprehensive investment research. Their clients include financial institutions, corporations, governments, institutional investors, such as pension funds and hedge funds, and private individuals around the world.

Wellington Management Co. LLP (WMC) is a registered investment advisor and mutual fund manager headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. The firm was founded in 1928 and is a subsidiary of Wellington Investment Advisors Holdings LLP, ultimately held by Wellington Management Group LLP. WMC offers investment management services for a fee to separate account clients and mutual funds sponsored by unaffiliated parties, as well as to investment vehicles that the firm sponsors.

Xerox Corp. engages in the integration of paper and digital products. The firm offers home, office, office laser, multifunction and all in one printer, digital sheet-fed printing presses and scanner. The company was founded in 1906 and is headquartered in Norwalk, CT.

Kennedy Capital Management LLC (KCM) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri. The firm was founded by Gerald Kennedy and Richard Sinise in 1980 as Kennedy Capital Management, Inc. In November 2022, the firm converted from “Kennedy Capital Management, Inc.”, a Missouri S corporation, to “Kennedy Capital Management LLC”, a Delaware limited liability company. They are a subsidiary of KCM Holdings, Inc. KCM manages assets for institutional and high-net-worth clients.

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.

Eaton Vance Management (EVM) is a registered mutual fund manager headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. The firm was founded in 1979 when Eaton & Howard merged with Vance, Sanders & Co. Prior to March 2021, they were a wholly-owned subsidiary of Eaton Vance Corp. Their direct owner is Morgan Stanley Domestic Holdings, Inc., ultimately held by Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS). EVM provides investment advice to institutional clients, mutual funds, other pooled investment vehicles, and retail separately managed accounts.

Novartis Corp. manufactures pharmaceuticals, vaccines, consumer health, generics, eye care and animal health products. It manufactures drugs for oncology, hypertension, diabetes, cancer and cardiovascular diseases. The company was founded on November 15, 1996 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Part of Stiftelsen Det Norske Veritas, PV Evolution Labs LLC is the leading reliability and performance testing lab for downstream solar project developers, financiers, and asset owners around the world. The company is based in Berkeley, CA. PV Evolution Labs provides a suite of technical services for mitigating risk, optimizing financing and improving system performance throughout the project lifecycle. The company's flagship product qualification program has replaced assumptions about PV module performance with quantifiable metrics, and connected manufacturers with a network of 400+ downstream partners. PV Evolution Labs is the leading independent lab for the downstream solar and energy storage market and a member of the Kiwa Group. PV Evolution Labs was founded in 2010 by Jenya Meydbray, Rajeev Singh. Jenya Meydbray has been the CEO since 2010.

Lua Technologies, Inc. provides mobile workforce services. The firm empowers mobile workforces by giving access to the people and information needed to get the job done from the field or the office. It also enables users to access various departments and custom groups, simplify real-time conversations with messaging and conference calling, and pinpoint who has read the messages, and receive confirmation. The company was founded by Michael Keoni DeFranco, Eli Bronner, and Jason Krigsfeld in February 2010 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Socure, Inc. provides online identity verification application. It develops ways to mitigate identity fraud risks for businesses. The firm's Social Biometrics technology applies artificial intelligence and machine-learning techniques with online/offline data intelligence from email, phone, address, IP, social media and the broader Internet to authenticate identities in real-time. The company was founded by Johnny Ayers and Sunil Madhu in 2012 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Empower Benefits, Inc. provides a software platform for companies to connect their employees with voluntary benefits, discount and reward programs. It offers supplemental health benefits and auto insurance quotes. The company was founded by Zach Malone and Neil Vaswani in 2006 and is headquartered in Naples, FL.

Conjur, Inc. provides access control solutions for IT applications and cloud computing. Its cloud based privileged access security platform secures, manages and monitors secrets and access controls for cloud and web based environments. Its solutions include automated access management, Security for DevOps, Compliance for modern IT, hybrid cloud security, microservice authorization, secrets management and source control orchestration and authorization for windows cloud. The company was founded by Elizabeth Lawler and Kevin Gilpin in 2012 and is headquartered in Waltham, MA.

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.

Moody's Investors Service, Inc. is a credit rating and investment research firm headquartered in New York City. They are a subsidiary of Moody's Corp. (NYSE: MCO). The firm performs international financial research and analysis on commercial and government entities and provides a variety of analytic tools for assessing credit risk. Their clients include creditors, investment banks and commercial banks.

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

Cornell University is an educational institution that offers undergraduate and post graduate programs. It was founded in 1865 and is based in Ithaca, NY.

Rochester Institute of Technology is a privately endowed, coeducational university with ten colleges emphasizing career education and experiential learning. It was founded in 1829 and is headquartered in Rochester, NY.

Federated Global Investment Management Corp. (FGIM) is a SEC-registered investment advisor and registered commodity pool operator headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1995 and is also known as Federated Clover Investment Advisors. They are a wholly-owned subsidiary of FII Holdings, Inc., which is wholly-owned by Federated Hermes, Inc. (NYSE: FHI). FGIM is a multi-strategy investor that manages portfolios of equity and fixed-income investments for institutional and private clients.

Bases Loaded provides baseball and softball equipment and uniforms. The firm’s products include bats, glove, apparel, footwear, bags, catchers, batting gloves and helmets, sunglasses, protective gear, training aids, coaches and scorekeeping, field equipment, umpire equipment and apparel, balls bases loaded products, and clearance corner. The company was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Rancho Cordova, CA.

Green Flower Media, Inc. manufactures cannabis. It specializes in medical cannabis education, cannabis education, medical marijuana education, hemp education. The company was founded by Max Simon and Stephanie Graziano in January 2015 and is headquartered in Ventura, CA.

Abundance Ventures LLC (Abundance Ventures) is a venture capital subsidiary of Abundance Partners LLC founded by Vladimir Efros in 2003. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Think Capital LLC is an independent hedge fund manager headquartered in New York City. The firm manages a private equity fund for high net-worth clients.