Naumdar Akhavan

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.

Washington Capital Management, Inc. (WaCap) is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Seattle, Washington. Founded in 1977, WaCap provides both privately offered commingled pooled investment funds (including feeder funds) and separately managed accounts. The firm serves as an investment manager primarily for institutional investors and accounts, such as pension and profit-sharing plans, corporations, charitable organizations, and governmental entities.

Google LLC engages in the operation of internet portal and search index website. It provides online advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing, and software solutions. The company was founded by Lawrence E. Page and Sergey Mikhaylovich Brin on September 4, 1998 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

Part of Data Analysis, Inc., William O'Neil & Co., Inc. is a financial services company based in Los Angeles, CA. The company specializes in providing financial research, analysis, and investment advisory services to individual and institutional investors. The CEO of the company is Steven L. Birch.

Equitable Advisors LLC is a SEC-registered investment adviser and wealth management firm headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1999 and is a subsidiary of Equitable Distribution Holding Corp., ultimately held by Equitable Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: EQH). Equitable Advisors provides investment advisory services to individuals, trusts, estates, charitable organizations, banks or thrift institutions, corporations and other business entities, and pension and profit-sharing plans.

Founded in 1993, First Allied Securities, Inc. is an independent, SEC-registered broker/dealer headquartered in San Diego, California. The firm is a member of FINRA, the NASD and the SIPC. First Allied Securities Inc. was previously a subsidiary of Advanced Equities Financial Corp. In April 2006, Advanced Equities Financial Corp. acquired First Financial Planners and merged it with First Allied Securities. In 2008, the firm acquired First Montauk Securities Corp. from First Montauk Financial Corp. In 2011, Lovell Minnick Partners LLC and the management team of First Allied Advisory Services acquired the firm from Advanced Equities Financial Corp. First Allied Securities is affiliated with First Allied Advisory Services, Inc., a registered investment advisor. The firm provides a full array of trading and execution services for their clients. They do not provide any internal research.

Glass, Lewis & Co. LLC (Glass Lewis) is an independent investment research firm headquartered in San Francisco, California. The firm was founded in 2003 by Kevin J. Cameron & Gregory P. Taxin. Glass Lewis provides investment research and advice on proxy votes to institutional investor and?publicly listed?companies. Their clients include pension plans, mutual funds, and asset managers.

ROTH Capital Partners LLC is a broker/dealer headquartered in Newport Beach, California. The firm was founded in 2001 and is a subsidiary of CR Financial Holdings, Inc. They offer institutional sales and trading services. Their broad institutional coverage includes investors in North America, Canada, UK, Europe and other international territories.

Deloitte & Touche LLP engages in the provision of audit, advisory, financial advisory, tax, and consulting services. The company was founded on March 7, 1995 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Monster, Inc. operates internet job search engine. Its services include job ads, career information tips on resume writing, interviewing, and salary negotiation. The company was founded by Jeffrey C. Taylor in 1994 and is headquartered in Maynard, MA.

The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants provides vocational education in accounting. The company provides services to the accounting community, regulatory bodies, and other organizations. It also operates in Jersey City, Washington, and Lewisville. It was founded in 1887 and is headquartered in New York City, NY.

Aspiriant LLC is an independent, wealth management firm and SEC-registered investment advisor firm headquartered in Los Angeles, California. The firm was founded by Robert J. Francais as Kochis Fitz/Quintile LLC through the merger between Kochis Fitz Tracy Fitzhugh and Quintile Wealth Management in 2008. Aspirant provides investment advisory and wealth planning services primarily to individuals with substantial wealth, including corporate executives, business owners, affluent individuals, foundations, family partnerships, limited partnerships, the Aspiriant Affiliated Mutual Funds and other individuals. They also provide investment management and consulting services to pension plans, trusts, and charitable institutions, such as foundations that are often connected to, and created by individual clients, but not in all cases.

Port Street Investments LLC is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Newport Beach, California. The firm was founded in 2013 and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Beacon Pointe Holdings LLC. Port Street Investments serves as investment manager of the Port Street Quality Growth fund (PSQGX), a high active share, value driven, opportunistic equity fund.

Beacon Pointe Advisors LLC (Beacon Pointe) is the asset management subsidiary of Beacon Pointe Advisors Holdings LLC, headquartered in Newport Beach, California. The firm was founded in 2002 by Matthew Cooper, Shannon Eusey, Mollie Rosing, Douglas Allison, Felix Lin, and Garth Flint, and is ultimately held by KKR North America XIII (Polyphony) Blocker LLC. Beacon Pointe offers discretionary and non-discretionary investment and non-investment-related consulting services and investment advisory services to institutional and individual clients.

BlueCrest Capital Management (New York) LP (BCM) is a hedge fund manager headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1998 and is a subsidiary of BC Capital Management Services Ltd. BCM provides investment advisory and management services to high-net-worth clients.

Jade Capital Advisors LLC (Jade Capital) is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in Essex Fells, New Jersey. The firm was founded by Robert McHugh and James Stanley in 2018. Jade Capital provides discretionary investment advisory and sub-advisory services to one sub-advised account.

LD Micro is an investment research firm headquartered in San Ramon, California. The firm was founded in 2006 by Chris Lahiji. In 2023, they were acquired by Freedom US Markets LLC, a subsidiary of Freedom Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: FRHC). LD Micro provides intraday information for the benefit of everyone in the small and microcap universe.

Phantom Auto, Inc. operates as a teleoperation platform which remotely operates and monitors vehicles. The company was founded by Elliot Katz, Ohad Dvir and Shai Magzimof in 2017 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

Terner Housing Innovation Labs (Terner Housing Innovation Labs) is a venture capital subsidiary of Terner Housing Innovation Labs Inc. The firm is headquartered in United States.

Betaworks Studio LLC builds and operates real time software, services and media distribution platform. It operates an online platform that offers media products. The firm's products include Digg, Dots, Bloglovin and Giphyt. The company was founded by John K. L. Borthwick and Andrew Weissman in 2007 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Betaworks Investments LLC (Betaworks Investments) is a venture capital firm, a subsidiary of Betaworks Studio LLC founded in 2007 by John Borthwick and Andy Weissman. The firm is headquartered in New York.

VSC Ventures (VSC Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2021 by Vijay Chattha. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Bond, Inc. is a shopping platform app that connects creators, brands, and consumers. The company is based in Los Angeles, CA. The company was founded in 2022 by Maddie Raedts and Sam Robinson. Maddie Raedts has been the CEO since 2022.

Scale AI, Inc. develops software to help customers. The firm focuses on human microtasks such as image annotation, transcription, categorization, comparison, phone calls or data collection. Its products include image recognition, audio transcription, categorization, comparison, phone calls, and data collection. The company was founded by Alexander Wang and Lucy Guo in 2016 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Zenda Capital (Zenda Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 2021 by Esteban Reyes. The firm is headquartered in Miami, Florida.

NewView Capital Management LLC (NewView Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 2018. The firm is headquartered in Burlingame.