John May

Deere & Co. (Investment Management) is the pension fund management arm of Deere & Co. (NYSE: DE), a machinery manufacturing firm headquartered in Moline, Illinois. The firm is a subsidiary of Insight Investment Group LLC in Russia. Deere & Co. maintains a defined benefit pension plan, known as the Salaried Pension Plan.

John Deere Capital Corp. provides and administers financing for retail purchases of new equipment manufactured. It operates through the following segments: Production and Precision Agriculture, Small Agriculture and Turf, Construction and Forestry, Products and Services, and Financial Services. The Production and Precision Agriculture segment defines, develops, and delivers global equipment and technology solutions to unlock customer value for production-scale growers of large grains, small grains, cotton, and sugarcane. The Small Agriculture and Turf segment focuses on the dairy and livestock producers, high-value crop producers, and turf and utility customers. It includes certain mid-size and small tractors, as well as hay and forage equipment, riding and commercial lawn equipment, golf course equipment, and utility vehicles. The Construction and Forestry segment refers to earthmoving, forestry, and roadbuilding production systems. Its products include crawler dozers and loaders, four-wheel-drive loaders, excavators, skid-steer loaders, milling machines, and log harvesters. The Products and Services segment produced by the segments above are marketed primarily through independent retail dealer networks and major retail outlets and, as it relates to roadbuilding products in certain markets outside the U.S. and Canada, primarily through John Deere-owned sales and service subsidiaries. The Financial Services segment consists of operations of the company and additional operations in the U.S., Canada, Brazil, China, India, Russia, and Thailand. The company was founded in 1958 and is headquartered in Madison, WI.

The Business Roundtable advocates public policies that ensure economic growth. It considers public policy issues which contains groups like the construction users anti-inflation roundtable, a group devoted to containing construction costs; and the labor law study committee, made up of labor relations executives of major companies. The Business Roundtable was founded in 1972 and is headquartered in Washington, DC.

The Council on Competitiveness is a nonpartisan organization that has been advocating for a competitiveness agenda for over three decades. The non-profit company is based in Washington. The organization aims to attract investment and talent, spur the commercialization of new ideas, and enhance productivity to raise the standard of living for all Americans. The council's members include CEOs, university presidents, labor leaders, and national lab directors who provide real-world perspective to policymakers. The council believes that with the right policies, the strengths and potential of the economy far outweigh the current challenges the nation faces on the path to higher growth and greater opportunity for all Americans. Deborah L. Wince-Smith has been the CEO of the American company since 1993.

John Deere Ltd. engages in the manufacturing of farm machinery and equipment. Its products include: ride-on mowers, tractors, 100 series ride-on mowers, compact utility tractors, gator utility vehicles, utility tractors, hay & forage, specialty tractors, residential ZTrak mowers, cotton harvesting, precision Ag technology, combine harvesters, 8R/8RT series row-crop tractors, 7Rseries row-crop tractors, 5M series (Euro spec) utility tractors, 5E series utility tractors and residential ZTrak zero-turn mowers. The company was founded in 1837 and is headquartered in Crestmead, Australia.

John Deere Health Care, Inc. provided health insurance services and products in Illinois, Iowa, Tennessee and Virginia. It also provided behavioral health, disease management, pharmacy management and wellness services. The company was founded in 1985 and was headquartered in Moline, IL.

John Deere (Tianjin) Co. Ltd. provides power transmission systems. The company was founded in May 2005 and is headquartered in Tianjin, China.