Joseph D. Apgar

Carnegie Mellon University is an American school that operates as a college or university. It is located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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.

BlackRock Advisors LLC is a SEC-registered investment advisor and mutual fund manager headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1994 and is a subsidiary of BlackRock Capital Holdings, Inc., ultimately held by BlackRock, Inc. (NYSE: BLK). BlackRock Advisors manages assets for US-registered investment companies and 529 Plans.

Citigroup Global Markets, Inc. (Broker) (CGMI-Broker) is the broker/dealer division of Citigroup Global Markets, Inc., an investment bank headquartered in New York City with additional offices across the US. The firm was founded in 2004 and is a subsidiary of Citigroup Financial Products, Inc., ultimately held by Citigroup, Inc. (NYSE: C). CGMI-Broker covers all market capitalizations of the major global indices and provides macro and quantitative analysis of global markets and sector trends. Their core focus of the group is to help investing clients make informed decisions by providing value-added, independent, insightful analysis.

Ernst & Young LLP engages in the provision of accounting, assurance, tax, transaction, and advisory services. It specializes in the actuarial, analytics and big data, cyber security, accounting compliance and reporting, center for board matters, international financial reporting standards, country tax advisory, global trade, tax accounting, and climate change and sustainability. The company was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Global Factory, Inc. provides collaborative manufacturing execution systems. The firm's software gather, organize & analyze demand, production & quality data from various sources and monitor key indicators & execute business processes to control, manage & optimize distributed manufacturing operations. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

University of Houston System offers higher education degrees and job training or vocational study programs. It offers about 280 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in fields such as business, education, humanities and law. It was founded in 1927 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

Duke University is an academic university that offers undergraduate, graduate and professional programs. It also has publications and research services. The university was founded in 1838 and is headquartered in Durham, NC.

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.

Necessary Ventures LLC (Necessary Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2020 by Neil Devani. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Vorys, Sater, Seymour & Pease LLP provides legal services such as commercial law, corporate, litigation, real estate, tax, and bankruptcy services. The company was founded in 1909 by Lowry F. Sater, Augustus T. Seymour, Edward L. Pease, and Arthur I. Vorys and is headquartered in Columbus, OH.

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

Sand Hill Angels Inc (Sand Hill Angels) is an angel investment firm founded in 2000. The firm is headquartered in Mountain View, California.

Prealize Health, Inc. engages in the development of machine learning solutions for improving healthcare focusing on predicting impending medical conditions. It specializes in data sciences and healthcare. The company was founded by Arnold Milstein and Nigam Shah in 2013 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

Friendly Finances, Inc. develops mobile applications for investment advisory services. It offers Penny, a mobile software application that provides personal finance management, financial security and additional services, including monitoring for unwanted and unauthorized charges for credit card accounts, bank accounts and other financial accounts specified by the user and others. The company was founded by Mitchell Lee and Alex Quach in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Atropos Health, Inc. is a healthcare and life science organization based in the United States. The company is based in New York, NY. Atropos Health is the developer of the first physician consultation service powered by research-grade real-world data. The company uses hundreds of millions of anonymized patient records to help providers answer clinical questions that have fallen through the cracks of the evidence-based literature. Atropos Health is also the developer of Geneva OS™, the operating system for rapid healthcare evidence across a robust network of real-world data. The company works with healthcare and life science organizations to close evidence gaps from bench to bedside, improving individual patient outcomes with data-driven care, expediting research that advances the field of medicine, and more. The company was founded in 2020 by Sharath Reddy, Brigham Hyde, Nigam Shah, and Saurabh Gombar, with Brigham Hyde serving as the CEO since then.

CHP Management Inc (Cardinal Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 1996 by John K Clarke, Brandon H Hull and John J Park. The firm is headquartered in Princeton, New Jersey.

Stanford Health Care provides healthcare services. It services includes cardiac care, cancer treatment, neurosciences, surgery and organ transplants. The company was founded in 1956 and is headquartered in Stanford, CA.

Providence Capital Advisors LLC provides investment advice. The private company is based in Charlotte, NC. The company was founded in 2015 by Thomas Michael Searson.

EverPower Wind Holdings, Inc. engages in the development and operation of utility grade wind projects. The company was founded by James Spencer in 2002 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA.

Renovus Capital Partners LP (Renovus Capital Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 2010 by Brad L. Whitman, Atif U. Gilani, and Jesse D. Serventi. The firm is headquartered in Wynnewood, Pennsylvania.

PennantPark Investment Advisers LLC (PennantPark) is a private equity firm founded in 2007 by Art Penn. The firm is headquartered in Miami, Florida with additional offices in New York, Chicago, Houston and Los Angeles.

Torchlight Consulting LLC provides scientific and technical consulting services. The private company is based in Lac Du Flambeau, WI.

Tissue Analytics, Inc. engages in the development of mobile application for health care services. Its solutions enable home health agencies, nursing homes and practices to send patient photographs and wound analysis. The company was founded by Kevin Keenahan, Gabriel Brat and Joshua Budman in 2013 and is headquartered in Baltimore, MD.

UBS Securities LLC is an investment bank and registered broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1998 as UBS Warburg LLC. They are a subsidiary of UBS Americas Holding LLC, ultimately held by UBS Group AG (SWX: UBSG, NYSE: UBS) in Switzerland. UBS Securities is a primary dealer in US Government securities and provides a full range of investment banking services which includes corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, trading and sales, fixed-income, equity research, private banking, underwriting and prime brokerage operations. The firm also provides advisory services and access to capital markets for corporate, institutional, intermediary and alternative asset management clients.

Jefferies LLC is a global investment bank and institutional securities firm headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1962 and is a subsidiary of Jefferies Group LLC, ultimately held by Jefferies Financial Group, Inc. (NYSE: JEF). Jefferies provides corporate clients with research and execution services in equity, fixed income, and foreign exchange markets, as well as a full range of investment banking services such as underwriting, mergers and acquisitions, restructuring and recapitalization, and other advisory services, with all businesses operating in the Americas, Europe and Asia.

Founded in 1958, Merrill Lynch Piece Fenner & Smith, Inc. is an SEC registered broker/dealer located in New York City. The firm is a subsidiary of BAC North America Holding Co. and their ultimate parent is Bank of America Corp. (NYSE BAC).

Founded in 1990 by Mark Peterson, Bridgeway Capital, Inc. is a private equity firm located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Boenning & Scattergood, Inc. (Broker) (Boenning & Scattergood-Broker) is the registered broker-dealer division of Boenning & Scattergood, Inc., a financial services firm headquartered in West Conshohocken, Pennsylvania. The firm was founded by Henry D. Boenning in 1914. Boenning & Scattergood-Broker provides retail investors, municipal clients, and institutions a full complement of financial services, including retail brokerage, investment advisory, equity research, equity and fixed income sales and trading, investment banking, public finance, and option strategy.