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MacKay Shields LLC is a registered investment advisor headquartered in New York City. The original predecessor to the firm, MacKay-Shields Economics, was founded in 1938 as an economic consulting firm and it became MacKay Shields Financial Corp. (MSFC) in 1969. In 1984, MSFC was purchased by New York Life Insurance Co. (NYLIC). NYLIC established New York Life Investment Management Holdings LLC (NYLIM Holdings) in 1999 and transferred ownership of MSFC to NYLIM Holdings. In 1999, MSFC was converted to MacKay Shields LLC. The ownership, control and management of MacKay Shields did not change as a result of this conversion. The firm is wholly owned by NYLIM Holdings, which is wholly-owned by NYLIC. MacKay Shields provides discretionary investment management services primarily to institutional clients. The firm is a signatory of the United Nation Principles for Responsible Investment (UNPRI).

HSBC Global Asset Management (USA), Inc. (AMUS) is the US-based wholly-owned investment advisory and fund management subsidiary of HSBC USA, Inc., and is indirectly owned by HSBC Holdings Plc (LON: HSBA, NYSE: HBC) in Great Britain. The firm was founded in 1986 and is headquartered in New York City. AMUS provides discretionary and non-discretionary advisory services to clients in several major markets and is a multi-product provider of investment and fund management services. For institutions, the firm provides active and tailored portfolio management on a global, regional, asset-class and country specific basis. They also serve as investment adviser to US registered investment companies. AMUS is a signatory to the UN-supported Principles of responsible Investment (UNPRI).

Founded in 1999, Credit Suisse Asset Management LLC (CSAM) is a registered investment advisor headquartered in New York City. The firm is an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Credit Suisse Group AG (NYSE: CS), a publicly owned foreign bank holding company based in Switzerland.

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.

ClearShares LLC is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Marco Island, Florida. The firm was founded by Thomas “Tom” Deegan and is majority-owned by Deegan Holdings LLC. ClearShares provides investment and strategic advice, investment solutions, and related advisory services to Registered Investment Companies (RICs).

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.

Part of Zenkel Schoenfeld LLC, Global Credit Services LLC provides business credit information and credit risk management software. The company is based in New York, NY. Douglas Newman has been the CEO of the company since 2010. Global Credit Services was acquired by Zenkel Schoenfeld LLC on March 19, 2008.

Founded in 2009, Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC (MSSB) is a registered investment adviser, a registered broker-dealer, a registered futures commission merchant, and a member of the New York Stock Exchange. Headquartered in Purchase, New York, MSSB is one of the largest financial services firms in the US with branch offices in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. The firm was initially owned by a joint venture company which was indirectly owned 65% by Morgan Stanley and 35% by Citigroup, Inc. On June 28, 2013, Morgan Stanley purchased Citi’s 35% interest in MSSB. As such, the firm is now a direct subsidiary of Morgan Stanley Smith Barney Holdings LLC and they are a wholly-owned indirect subsidiary of Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS).

Tiptree Advisors LLC is a SEC-registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded by Michael Barnes and Arif Inayatullah in 2003 as Tricadia Capital Management LLC. They are wholly owned by Tiptree Advisors Holdings LP. Formerly known as Corvid Peak Capital Management LLC, Tiptree Advisors provides discretionary portfolio management and advisory services to institutional investors. They also manage certain assets on behalf of Tiptree, Inc.

ATX Venture Partners (ATX Venture Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 2014 by Chris R. Shonk and Danielle Weiss Allen, Brad Bentz. The firm is headquartered in Austin, Texas.

NCH Capital, Inc. is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in New York City. It was founded in 1993 by George Rohr and Moris Tabacinic. The firm is a subsidiary of Russian-based NCH Advisors, Inc. NCH Capital provides investment supervisory and management services on a discretionary basis to clients that are pooled investment funds intended for institutional and other sophisticated investors.

Cerberus Capital Management LP (Cerberus) is a private equity firm founded in 1992 by Stephen A. Feinberg and William L. Richter. It is headquartered in New York.

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.

SQN AIF V GP LLC provides investment services. The private company is based in Portsmouth. The CEO of the American company is Claudine Aquillon.

SQN Investment Advisors LLC, through its subsidiary Arboretum Commercial Finance, offers financing solutions tailored to the energy, healthcare, construction, and infrastructure sectors. The private company is based in Portsmouth, NH, and the CEO of the company is Claudine Aquillon. The company provides asset-backed financing solutions to help growing companies acquire the assets they need to thrive. The Arboretum Group, LLC, a full-service organization providing fund management, asset financing, servicing, and distribution, is the parent company of Arboretum Commercial Finance.

CreditSights, Inc. is an independent investment research firm headquartered in New York City. The firm was co-founded by Paul Ciasullo, Reena Mithal, Glenn Reynolds and Peter Petas in 2000. They are a subsidiary of Fitch Group, Inc., ultimately owned by The Hearst Family Trust. CreditSights provides fundamental, in-depth credit research for buy-side decisionmakers, sell-side intermediaries and wealth managers and private banks globally. The firm actively covers more than 5,000 companies in North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific representing over 56 countries.

Cowen Investment Management LLC (Cowen Investment Management) is a venture capital subsidiary of Cowen, Inc. founded in 1997. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Gladly, Inc. is a customer service software company that uses AI to provide personalized customer service at scale. The company is based in San Francisco, CA and has subsidiaries in the United States. The company's platform includes voice, email, SMS, chat, social messaging, and self-service channels to create a lifelong conversation stream with customers. Gladly helps commerce brands understand their customers and match them with the right agent, resulting in no missed conversation history and no time wasted on channel switching. Many well-known brands, such as Allbirds, Bombas, Crate&Barrel, and Ulta Beauty, partner with Gladly to transform their customer service and build lifelong loyal customers. The company was founded by Kevin Jennison and Alexander Groth, with Alexander Groth serving as CEO since incorporation.

SQN Capital Management LLC (SQN) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 2007 by Jeremiah Silkowski and Neil Roberts. They are a subsidiary of SQN Capital Partners LLC, a subsidiary of SQN Capital Corp. SQN provides investment advisory and management services to alternative investment funds as well as to separate managed accounts for institutions. The firm manages or advises on funds domiciled in the US, Great Britain, the Channel Islands and the Cayman Islands.

SQN Alternative Investment Fund III LP owns and invests leased equipment and related financings. It purchases equipment and leases it to the third-party end users. The firm sells its equipment directly to its leasing customers. The company was founded on March 10, 2010 and is headquartered in New York, NY.