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Advent International LP (Advent) is an independent private equity firm founded in 1984 by Henry H. Haight. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP provides legal services. The firm's areas of practice includes appellate, litigation, business and commercial litigation, dispute resolution, government contracts, internal investigations, labor and employment, oil and gas patent, trademark and copyright infringement, product liability and toxic tort securities litigation. The company was founded in 1971 and is headquartered in Washington, DC.

Morgan Stanley Investment Management, Inc. (MSIM) is an investment management firm headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1975 and is a subsidiary of Morgan Stanley Domestic Holdings, Inc., ultimately held by Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS). MSIM provides discretionary and non-discretionary investment management services and products to institutional clients and individual investors. The firm also advises clients as to the appropriate allocation of assets among multiple separate accounts and/or investment companies or other pooled vehicles that the firm advises.

Citadel Enterprise Americas LLC (Citadel Enterprise) is an independent hedge fund management firm headquartered in Miami, Florida. The firm was founded by Kenneth C. Griffin and Reade Griffith in 1990 and formerly known as Citadel LLC. Citadel Enterprise provides investment banking, institutional trading and fund administration services to many types of US and non-US domiciled clients.

Breaking Media, Inc. provides network of websites, e-newsletters, events and social media channels for influential, affluent business communities. It offers research, build a website or blog or create custom content, and event marketing. The company was founded by Justin B. Smith and S. Carter Burden III in 2007 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Roc Global LLC is an international investment bank that provides bespoke capital raising and advisory services to corporate clients, project developers, and financial sponsors regarding all forms of sustainable metals & mining in the Americas and clean energy. Roc Global is based in New York, NY, and was founded by Joe Garofoli. The private company draws on a depth of transactional experience to develop creative, tailor-made financing solutions for its clients and maintains a robust network of investors. Roc Global's senior team members have many years of cross-border corporate finance experience, including M&A advisory, capital raising, project finance, capital markets, and risk management. The company's differentiated platform focuses on the independent forces driving the growth in clean energy and sustainable metals & mining across the Americas, as well as the strong links that bind them together. Joe Garofoli has been the CEO since incorporation.

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.

Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe (WCAS) is a private equity firm founded in 1979 by Patrick Welsh, Russ Carson and Bruce Anderson. The firm is headquartered in New York.

ArcLight Capital Holdings LLC (ArcLight Capital) is a private equity firm founded by Dan R. Revers and Robb Eric Turner in 2000. The firm is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Alliance Consulting Group, Inc. provides e-business strategy consulting. The firm offers services in the areas of business process redesign, customer needs and segmentation analysis, innovation and new product development, market and competitive analysis. The company was founded by Hans Michael Norkus in 1986 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Northwestern University is a private institution founded in 1851 to serve the Northwest Territory, an area that now includes the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and parts of Minnesota. Northwestern has three campuses

PricewaterhouseCoopers International Ltd. operates as an international association of accounting and consultancy firm. The company was founded on June 24, 1998 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Union Square Ventures LLC (USV) is a venture capital firm founded by Brad R. Burnham and Frederick R. Wilson in 2003. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Center for Strategic & International Studies, Inc. provides strategic insights & policy solutions to decision makers in government, international institutions, the private sector, and civil society. Its projects focus on areas such as AIDS, arms control, conflict resolution, NATO, the environment, immigration, intelligence, trade, health care, OPEC, space policy, and terrorism. The company was founded in 1962 by David M. Abshire and Admiral Arleigh Burke and is headquartered in Washington, DC.

SFW Capital Partners LP (SFW Capital Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 2007 by Thomas P. Salice, Roger C. Freeman, David Webb and Norman Wells. The firm Is headquartered in Rye, New York.

O-Web Technologies Ltd. provides mobile and online ordering software and services to the restaurant industry. The company was founded by Oleg Fridman, Stan Garber and Brad Kleinman in 2003 and is headquartered in Cleveland, OH.

Betterment Holdings, Inc. provides financial, technology, trading, law, and marketing services. It offers financial planning, retirement, IRAS, Trusts, and tax loss harvesting. The company was founded by Eli David Broverman and Jonathan Babcock Stein in 2007 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

AIM Software AG provides data management software solutions for the financial community managing and servicing assets. It develops products that simplify the analysis of financial data and the pricing of instruments. The firm's solutions include software for reference data management, portfolio pricing, and corporate actions announcement capture. The company was founded by Martin Buchberger in 1999 and is headquartered in Vienna, Austria.

Bregal Partners (Bregal Partners) is a private equity firm, a subsidiary of Bregal Investments LLP founded in 2012 by Scott A. Perekslis and Robert A. Bergmann. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Ropes & Gray LLP provides legal and private equity services. Its practice areas include asset management, banking, business and commercial litigation, business restructuring, capital markets and corporate governance and compliance. The company was founded in 1865 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Carbon Analytics Holdings LLC operates as a holding company with interest in designs and develops cloud computing solutions for carbon emissions management. The company is headquartered in New York, NY.

ZappiStore Ltd. develops online market research tools to help clients in their decision making process. Its products include kantar millward brown, pointlogic, added snapshot, brainjuicer, MMR impact lite and conversionmodel express. The company was founded on August 20, 2012 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.