Ronald Guenther

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.

RSM US LLP engages in the provision of accounting services. It offers audit, tax, consulting, and wealth management services. The firm serves the energy, government, life sciences, manufacturing, private equity, and real estate and construction industries. The company was founded by Ira B. McGladrey in 1926 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

The Northern Trust Co. provides investment management, asset, fund administration, fiduciary and banking solutions. The company is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Mesirow Financial Investment Management, Inc. (MFIM) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. The firm was established in 1986 and their sole shareholder is Mesirow Financial Services, Inc., which is wholly-owned by Mesirow Financial Holdings, Inc., a Chicago-based financial services firm that was founded in 1937. MFIM provides advisory services to individuals, corporations or other businesses, pension and profit-sharing plans, non-qualified plans, state or municipal government entities, and charitable organizations.

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.

Biomedical Acoustics Research Co. develops acoustic technologies for medical diagnoses. The firm focuses on gastrointestinal diseases, including intestinal obstruction, delayed gastric emptying, and gastrointestinal perforation. The company was founded in 1990 and is located in Evanston, IL.

Illinois Ventures LLC (Illinois Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2000. The firm is headquartered in Champaign, Illinois.

Part of TIAA Board of Governors, Teachers Insurance & Annuity Association of America is a company that provides retirement planning, asset and investment management services. The company is based in New York, NY. The company was founded in 1918 by Andrew Carnegie. The CEO is Thasunda Brown Duckett.

Visual Management Systems, Inc. engages in the provision of electronic security solutions. It offers a full range of protective technology products and services to a host of businesses and industries. The company develops, produces, markets and installs digital surveillance systems, digital video recording devices and network video recording devices. Its products include virtual manager, true hybrid and satellite. The company was founded by Jason Gonzalez in March 2004 and is headquartered in Toms River, NJ.

TIAA Board of Overseers engages in the provision of financial services. It offers investing, banking and loans, and insurance products. Its services include workplace investing, personal investing, individual advisory services, managed accounts, charitable giving, and trusts and estate planning. The company was founded by Andrew Carnegie in 1918 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

TIAA-CREF Life Insurance Co. provides insurance services. The firm offers retirement plans, IRAs, mutual funds, retirement annuities, brokerage & trading, 529 education savings, managed investment accounts and TIAA personal portfolio. The company was founded on March 04, 1918 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. was founded in 1920. The non-profit company is based in Cambridge, MA. The company provides investment research.

TIAA Real Estate Account is an insurance company, which offers individual and group accumulating annuity contracts. It also offers individual lifetime and term-certain variable payout annuity contracts including the payment of death benefits to beneficiaries. The company was founded on February 22, 1995 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Teachers Insurance & Annuity Association of America-College provides financial products and services. It offers retirement plans, mutual funds, annuities, life insurance, brokerage and trading services, managed accounts and education savings. The company was founded by Andrew Carnegie in 1918 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

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.

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.

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.

Filtration Group Corp. engages in manufacture of air purification and filtration products. It offers GeoPleat, Filtrair, and HEPA filters which are used in hospitals, electronics, nuclear, pharmaceuticals, laboratories, aerospace, food processing, optics, and industrial applications. The company was founded by George C. Nolen in 1942 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

Airxchange, Inc. manufactures energy recovery ventilation products and components. It supplies rotary energy recovery components to original equipment manufacturers in the heating, ventilating and air conditioning industry. The company was founded by Donald F. Steele in 1982 and is headquartered in Rockland, MA.

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP provides legal services. The firm specializes in corporate, financial services, litigation, real estate, commercial finance, intellectual property, trusts and estates, antitrust, bankruptcy, international trade, employee benefits and executive compensation, employment, environmental, public finance and tax. The company was founded in 1974 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Robert W. Baird & Co., Inc. operates as a wealth management, capital markets, private equity and asset management firm. It offers equity research, corporate restructuring, mergers and acquisitions, public financing and fixed income services. The firm serves individual, corporate, institutional and municipal clients. The company was founded by Robert Wilson Baird in 1919 and is headquartered in Milwaukee, WI.

Madison Capital Partners Corp. (Madison Capital Partners) is an Independent Private Equity firm founded in 1994 by Larry W. Gies. The firm is headquartered in Chicago.

Sora Investors LLC (Sora) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. The firm was co-founded by Karl Richter, Bill Dauphinais and Larry Ge in 2021 and is owned by Sora Investment Management LP. Sora intends to offer discretionary investment advisory services to both separate investment accounts maintained by its advisory clients and, in the future, to collective investment vehicles sponsored by the firm.

Citadel Advisors LLC is a SEC-registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in Miami, Florida. The firm was founded in 1990 by Kenneth Griffin and is wholly-owned by Citadel Advisors Holdings LP, ultimately held by GFH HFEVA LLC. Citadel Advisors manages private investment funds that are offered exclusively to sophisticated investors.

Credit Suisse (New York Securities Branch) is based in New York, NY. Part of UBS Group AG, Credit Suisse (New York Securities Branch) is a company that provides investment banking and asset management services.

JPMorgan Securities LLC (JPMS) is a securities brokerage firm headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1985 and is a subsidiary of JPMorgan Broker-Dealer Holdings, Inc., ultimately held by JPMorgan Chase & Co., Inc. (NYSE: JPM). JPMS provides research on fixed income, credit, derivatives, emerging markets, foreign exchange, structured finance, technical analysis and bond indices. Their equity analysts cover equities throughout North America, EMEA, Asia/Pacific and the emerging markets. The firm's fixed income team formulates trading and portfolio recommendations for investors in global bonds and other fixed-income markets based on valuations, analytics and market dynamics.

KB Partners LLC (KB Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 1996 by Keith Bank and Byron Denenberg. The firm is headquartered in Highland Park, Illinois.

Balyasny Asset Management LP (BAM) is a multi-strategy hedge fund manager and SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. The firm’s predecessor, Balyasny Capital Management LLC (BCM), was founded in 2001 by Dmitry Balyasny, Scott Schroeder and Taylor O'Malley. In 2003, BCM converted from a limited liability company to a limited partnership. Then, in January 2004, their name was changed to Balyasny Asset Management LP. They are a subsidiary of Balyasny Asset Management Holdings LP. BAM provides investment advisory services to high net-worth individuals and institutional clients through privately offered pooled investment funds.

Accenture LLP provides management consulting, technology, and outsourcing services. Its services encompass customer relationship, finance, human resources, service, supply chain, information management, business process, and infrastructure outsourcing services. The company was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Verb Surgical, Inc. designs and manufactures surgical equipment. The company was founded in August 2015 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.