Melissa I. Mennella

UBS Asset Management (Americas) LLC (UBS AM) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 2000 as UBS Global Asset Management (Americas), Inc. They are a wholly owned subsidiary of UBS Americas, Inc., ultimately owned by UBS Group AG (SIX: UBSG; NYSE: UBS) in Switzerland. UBS AM provides investment products and services to corporate and public pension plans, financial institutions and advisors, central banks, charities, foundations and individual investors around the world.

Omega Advisors, Inc. is an independent family office headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded by Leon G. Cooperman in 1991 as a hedge fund firm and converted into a family office in 2018.

BNY Mellon Investment Adviser, Inc. (BNYMIA) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1951 and formerly known as The Dreyfus Corp. They are a wholly-owned subsidiary of MBC Investments Corp., ultimately held by The Bank of New York Mellon Corp. (NYSE: BK). BNYMIA serves as an investment advisor to mutual funds, such as the BNY Mellon Family of Funds and The BNY Mellon Funds Trust, and as sub-investment advisor to non-affiliated mutual funds. Formed in 2009, Dreyfus Cash Investment Strategies (Dreyfus) is a division of the BNYMIA that offers money market strategies to US and non-US institutional investors.

PGIM, Inc. is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Newark, New Jersey. The firm was founded in 1984 and is a direct subsidiary of PGIM Holding Co. LLC, ultimately owned by Prudential Financial, Inc. (NYSE: PRU). PGIM provides institutional clients with investment solutions worldwide. It is comprised of autonomous asset management businesses each specializing in a particular asset class with a focused investment approach: PGIM Institutional Advisory & Solutions (provides advisory services to institutional clients located in the US and outside of the US), PGIM Fixed Income (an adviser primarily focused on public fixed income investments), PGIM Real Estate (a provider of real estate investment advisory services) and PGIM Capital Group (a private fixed income investment adviser, also known as Prudential Capital Group).

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

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.

A.G.P. / Alliance Global Partners Corp. (AGP) is a FINRA-registered broker-dealer headquartered in Westport, Connecticut. Formerly known as Euro Pacific Capital, Inc., the firm was founded by Peter Schiff in 1997 and is a subsidiary of Alliance Global LLC. AGP provides prime brokerage services to hedge funds, family offices, professional traders and top tier small/mid-cap investment funds. It offers multi-clearing, cloud based, high-touch client service solutions tailored to each client’s business needs.

OnePak, Inc. engages in cloud-based aggregation and integration of logistics services to facilitate equipment returns. It also provides handling, packing, tracking, and reporting for: leasing companies, equipment lessees, remarketers and recyclers, and anyone who needs to ship something back. The company was founded by Steven V. Andon and Charles A. Andon on March 30, 2005 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Miura Global Management LLC is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded by Francisco “Pasco” Alfaro in 2004 and provides advisory services to pooled investment vehicles.

Mellon Investments Corp. is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. Founded in 1983, the firm is a subsidiary of MBC Investments Corp., ultimately held by the Bank of New York Mellon Corp. (BNY Mellon Corp.) (NYSE: BK). In 2018, two other indirect subsidiaries of BNY Mellon Corp., the Boston Company Asset Management LLC (TBCAM) and Standish Mellon Asset Management Company LLC, merged into Mellon Capital Management Corp. and the firm was renamed BNY Mellon Asset Management North America Corp. In 2019, BNY Mellon Asset Management North America Corp. was renamed Mellon Investments Corp. Mellon Investments provides discretionary and non-discretionary investment advice to both individual and institutional clients.

Pacific Investment Management Co. LLC (PIMCO) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Newport Beach, California. Founded in 1971, the firm is a subsidiary of Allianz Asset Management of America LP and their ultimate parent is Allianz SE (ETR: ALV), a German global insurance company. PIMCO provides discretionary investment management services to a global client base.

PIMCO Europe Ltd. (PIMCO-Europe) is the Great Britain-based subsidiary of PIMCO Global Advisors LLC, ultimately held by Allianz SE (FR: ALV; ADR: AZSEY) in Germany. Established in 1997, PIMCO-Europe is headquartered in London with additional branches in Europe and global offices in Asia, Australia, and the Americas. The firm provides fixed-income investment management services to clients in Great Britain, Europe and the Middle East. In addition to corporate pension funds, their clientele includes foundations, endowments, public retirement plans, central banks and corporate treasury departments. They also serve retail and high-net worth individuals. PIMCO Europe manages discretionary accounts, institutional funds and mutual funds. The firm is involved in the institutional wholesale business, and sub-advises portfolios for third-party fund-of-fund managers.

WHI Capital Partners (WHI Capital Partners) is a private equity subsidiary of William Harris Investors, Inc. founded in 2001 by Adam H. Schecter. The firm is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

PGIM Private Capital is a private equity firm, a subsidiary of Prudential Capital Group, founded in 1998. The firm is headquartered in Illinois, Chicago.

Veridiam, Inc. manufactures precision engineered metal tubes and tubular components. It offers services to the medical, nuclear, aerospace, dental and industrial markets. The company was founded in 1961 and is headquartered in El Cajon, CA.

Oberon Securities LLC provides financial advisory services. The firm addresses the financial needs of small and midsize companies in all industries. It also provides guidance on mergers and acquisitions, private placements, management buyouts, recapitalization, divestitures and sales, IPO's, cross border transactions, joint ventures, financings, restructurings, and valuations. The company was founded by Elad Epstein and Nicole Schmidt in 2001 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Clinical Resource Network LLC engages in the provision of in-home and alternate-site clinical services. It also offers consulting, laboratory, courier, and supply acquisition and management. The company was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Vernon Hills, IL.

Pacific Investment Management Co. LLC (Private Equity) (Pacific Investment) a subsidiary of Pacific Investment Management Co. LLC founded in 1994 by William Hunt Gross. The firm is headquartered in Newport Beach, California.

CompanyFirst LLC (Consumer Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in the year 2017 by Jason Starr. The firm headquartered in Hinsdale, Illinois.

Newton Investment Management North America LLC (NIMNA) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. The firm was founded in 2021 and is a subsidiary of MBC Investments Corp., ultimately owned by The Bank of New York Mellon Corp. (NYSE: BK). NIMNA provides discretionary and non-discretionary investment advice to institutional clients, including US and global pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, trusts, central banks, endowments, foundations, insurance companies, registered mutual funds, other pooled investment vehicles and other institutions.

Vista Capital Advisors LLC operates as a financial product innovative company. It offers eBonds, a form of corporate bond. The company was founded by Richard K. MacAilliams and John Andrew McQuown and is headquartered in New York, NY.