Mike J. Piechalak

Raymond James & Associates, Inc. (RJA) is a registered broker-dealer headquartered in St. Petersburg, Florida. The firm was founded in 1962 and is a subsidiary of Raymond James Financial, Inc. (NYSE: RJF), a diversified holding company. RJA offers a full array of capital markets services, strategic advice and planning for institutional investors.

Overhill Farms, Inc. manufactures and sells of frozen food products. It product lines includes poultry, meat and fish specialties, pastas, soups, sauces, certified organic and vegetarian offerings. The firm serves retail, foodservice, meat and chicken, seafood, pasta, soups and sauces. The company was founded in 1968 and is headquartered in Vernon, CA.

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLC provides assurance, tax and advisory services. Its services include audit and assurance, consulting, deals, human resources, legal, tax, and family business. The firm also offers accountability, risk management, structuring, mergers and acquisitions, and performance and process improvement. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Buffalo, NY.

William Blair & Co. LLC (William Blair) is a SEC-registered broker/dealer firm headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. The firm was founded by William McCormick Blair in 1935 and is a subsidiary of WBC Holdings LP. Until 1941, they were known as Blair, Bonner & Co. William Blair provides broking services to individual, institutional and issuing clients.

University of Miami (Florida) is a private research university with students from around the world that is focused on teaching and learning, the discovery of new knowledge, and service to the South Florida region and beyond. The university was founded in 1925 and it is headquartered in Coral Gables, FL.

Trail Post Ventures Management LLC (Trail Post Ventures) is an venture capital firm founded in 2017 by Will J. Schmitt and Nicolas Mindel. The firm is headquartered in Sausalito, California.

Miroma Ventures Ltd. (Miroma Ventures) is a venture capital subsidiary of Miroma Group founded in 2003 by Marc Jason Boyan. The firm is headquartered in Fitzrovia, United Kingdom.

Miroma Group Ltd. engages in the provision of end-to-end marketing and communication services. It offers commercial media trading, planning based on real-time data and insights, production and editing of content, and cultural creative production. The company was founded by Marc Jason Boyan on October 27, 2009 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Natureza Management LLC (Natureza Growth Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 2019. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Founded in 2008 by Adam Forste and Kevin Marchetti, Bay Grove Capital LLC is a private equity firm located in San Francisco

Aura Financial Corp. engages in development of loan and lending platform. It offers Lendify, a cloud-based platform available to organizations that helps brands offers their customers loan products. The company was founded by James Gutierrez, Randy Wong, and Kevin Kang in 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Upstart Network, Inc. operates as an online lending platform. It allows clients to raise capital in exchange for a small portion of client’s future income. The company was founded by David Joseph Girouard, Anna Mongayt Counselman and Paul Gu in 2012 and is headquartered in San Mateo, CA.

Part of Rakuten Group, Inc., Rakuten Europe SARL provides a variety of services through the internet, including online shopping, publishing, golf, consulting, security brokerage, consumer finance, travel agency, employment agency, and insurance services. The company is based in Luxembourg, Luxembourg.

Azimo Ltd. provides online money transfer services. It also launches Facebook integration to help consumers facilitate money transfer via the social network and is used by the population of foreign-born residents in many countries who send money overseas. The company was founded by Michael David Fletcher Kent, Marta Krupinska, Frederick Samuel Knox and Marek Wawro in 2012 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Rakuten Medical, Inc. operates as a clinical stage biotechnology company which develops tumor-targeted precision therapies. It develops new anticancer therapies based on the photoimmunotherapy platform. The company was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

PPC Investment Partners LP (PPC Investment Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 2002 by Tony N. Pritzker and Jay Robert Pritzker. The firm is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

Rakuten Securities, Inc. engages in the business of brokerage services. It products include spot trading, domestic Exchange-Traded Fund (ETF) & Exchange-Traded Note (ETN), real estate investment trust, stock lending services, Initial Public Offering (IPO) shares, domestic and foreign bonds etc. The company was founded on March 24, 1999 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

Vista Advisors LLC provides insurance agency services. The private company is based in Dallas. The American company was founded by Robert C. Froetscher. Kenneth Winterhalter has been the CEO of the company since 2019.

Part of Enron Dissolution Corp., PG&E Energy Services operates a retail electric and gas commodities business. PG&E Energy Services was acquired by Enron Energy Services Operations, Inc. from PG&E Corp. on June 30, 2000 for $85 million.