Rick Ecklord

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.

Icahn Associates Holding LLC is an independent hedge fund manager headquartered in New York City. The firm is affiliated with Icahn Enterprises LP (NASDAQ: IEP), a Delaware master limited partnership and diversified holding company engaged in seven primary business segments: Investment, Energy, Automotive, Food Packaging, Real Estate, Home Fashion and Pharma. Icahn Associates Holding manages the assets of high net-worth clients.

AAIPharma, Inc. provides product development services to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device industries. Its services include drug delivery technologies, contract manufacturing, clinical packaging and distribution and bioanalytical services. The company was founded in 1979 and is headquartered in Wilmington, NC.

Citigroup Alternative Investments LLC (CAI) is a SEC-registered asset management firm headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 2002 and is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Citigroup Investments, Inc., which is owned by Citigroup, Inc. (NYSE: C). CAI provides advisory services to private investment companies, such as private equity funds and funds of one or more private equity and real estate funds. The investors in the funds advised by the firm are institutional investors, funds of funds, high-net worth individuals and employees, and former employees of Citigroup, Inc.

Suntrust Equity Funding LLC (Suntrust Equity Funding) is the private equity and mezzanine investing arm of SunTrust Robinson Humphrey which is founded in 1995 by Robert L. Dudiak. Their ultimate parent is Truist. The firm is headquartered in Atlanta.

TPC Group, Inc. engages in production of value-added products derived from niche petrochemical raw materials such as C4 hydrocarbons. It sells products into a specialty and intermediate markets, including synthetic rubber, fuels, lubricant additives, plastics and surfactants. Its products include butadiene, butane-1, fuel products, polyisobutylene, isobutylene derivative, propylene tetramer and pentamer. The company was founded in 1943 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

Salem Halifax Capital Partners LP, an SBIC Fund, invests in small to medium-sized companies located in the US. The fund focuses with minimum EBITDA of $1.5 million, revenues of $10 - $75 million, products or services with stable demand, defensible market positions, and experienced management teams. It targets companies operating in the field of traditional manufacturing, distribution, and services. The fund makes co-investments and provides financing in the form of preferred, common equity and mezzanine debt with warrants for acquisitions, LBOs, MBOs, recapitalizations, bridge, and expansion financings with an investment size of $2 - $10 million per transaction.

Harvard University engages in the provision of teaching and research. It has twelve degree-granting Schools in addition to the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, offering a global education. The university was founded in 1636 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC (GS&Co.) is a securities brokerage firm headquartered in New York City. Founded in 1927, the firm is a subsidiary of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE: GS). GS&Co. provides services to help hedge funds manage risk, monitor portfolios, maintain liquidity and build their businesses. They offer clients access to global equity and derivatives markets, as well as foreign exchange, commodities, European Lefts, rates and credit across the Americas, Europe and Asia. The firm proactively monitors capital markets, searching for pockets of liquidity and news that may require changes to those strategies. Integration with the Goldman Sachs network gives clients access to the firm's sectored block trades and their insights into price discovery. Their electronic trading program provides clients with tools to manage their trades from pre-trade analytics to post-trade analysis.

Ernst & Young provides accounting services. Its services include auditing, accounting, tax and transaction services, assurance and advisory business, online transaction advisory and a wide range of financial services. The company was founded by Arthur Young and Alwin C. Ernst in 1881 and is headquartered in Kansas City, MO.

Baker Botts LLP provides legal services. Its services include antitrust and compensation law, corporate, enforcement and investigations, environmental law, intellectual property, litigation, projects, real estate and construction, regulatory, and tax. The firm renders its services to banking and finance industry, energy and natural resources, manufacturing, and technological industries. The company was founded by Peter Gray in 1840 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas.

Salem Investment Partners (Salem Investment Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 1999 by Phillip W. Martin. The firm is headquartered in Greensboro, North Carolina.

Applied LNG Technologies USA LLC distributes LNG in the Western US and Mexico. The company is headquartered in Amarillo, TX.

Millennium Management LLC is a SEC-investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded by Israel 'Izzy' Englander in 1989 and is a subsidiary of MLM Trust B LLC, itself a subsidiary of MLM Trust B. Millennium Management provides discretionary investment advisory services to private investment funds.

Applied Natural Gas Fuels, Inc. produces, distributes and sells liquefied natural gas. It sells its products to transportation, industrial, and municipal markets in the western United States and northern Mexico. The firm offers turn-key fuel solutions to its customers that include delivery of clean LNG fuel, equipment storage, fuel dispensing equipment and fuel loading facilities. The company was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in Westlake Village, CA.

CQS (US) LLC (CQS) is a SEC-registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded by Michel Brogard in 2008. They are controlled by its managing member, CQS Management Ltd., ultimately held by CQS Cayman LP in Cayman Islands., CQS provides discretionary and non-discretionary investment services to certain privately offered pooled investment vehicles organized as exempted companies and limited partnerships (or similar structures) under the laws of the Cayman Islands, the state of Delaware, Ireland, and the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.

Millennium Partners Co Ltd (Millennium Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 2006. The firm is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

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