Adam Eugene Auten

USAA Investment Services Co. (ISCO) is a SEC-registered investment adviser headquartered in San Antonio, Texas. The firm was founded in 1970 as USAA Investment Management Co. (IMCO). They are a direct, wholly-owned subsidiary of USAA Investment Corp. and an indirect, wholly-owned subsidiary of the United Services Automobile Association (USAA), a diversified financial services organization. In 2020, ISCO’s brokerage and advisory businesses, including client accounts, were sold to Schwab Holdings, Inc., an affiliate of The Charles Schwab Corp. (Schwab) (NYSE: SCHW). ISCO’s business is now limited to referring prospective clients to Schwab or Victory Capital, performing certain referral-related marketing activities, and providing advice with respect to saving for retirement and retirement income.

Kempner Capital Management, Inc. (KCM) is an independent registered investment advisor headquartered in Galveston, Texas. The firm was founded in 1982 by Harris L. “Shrub” Kempner, Jr. KCM provides investment advice to individual and institutional clients.

Victory Capital Management, Inc. (Investment Management) (Victory Capital-IM) is the investment management division of Victory Capital Management, Inc., a financial services company headquartered in San Antonio, Texas. The firm was founded in 1894 and formerly known as Key Asset Management, Inc. They are an indirect, wholly owned subsidiary of Victory Capital Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: VCTR). Victory Capital-IM provides specialized investment strategies to institutions, intermediaries, retirement platforms and individual investors.

Seagate Technology (Thailand) Ltd. designs, manufactures and markets hard disc drives. Its products include Gimbal stack, Head Gimbal, drive assemblies. The company is headquartered in Samutprakarn, Thailand

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLC provides assurance, tax and advisory services. Its services include audit and assurance, consulting, deals, human resources, legal, tax, and family business. The firm also offers accountability, risk management, structuring, mergers and acquisitions, and performance and process improvement. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Buffalo, NY.

Ana-Lab Corp. provides environmental testing laboratory services. It provides comprehensive analytical testing of wastewater, groundwater, and solid waste environmental significant parameters including heavy metals, priority pollutants, herbicides, pesticides, and PCBs. The company was founded by Charles H. Whiteside in 1965 and is headquartered in Kilgore, TX.

Part of Envela Corp., ECHG LLC is a company that provides returns management, product refurbishment, consumer trade-ins, and product de-manufacturing services. The company is based in Austin, TX. The CEO of the company is James D. Clem.

Alternative Petroleum Technologies, Inc. provides proprietary emulsion technology for petroleum products. Its products include diesel oil emulsion (DOE), emulsified biodiesel (EBD), fuel oil emulsion (FOE), and residual oil emulsion (ROE). The company is headquartered in Reno, NV.

Delta Connection provides airline services. The private company is based in Atlanta, GA.

Equal Opportunity Ventures LLC (EO Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2019 by Ronald Fryer and William Helman. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Headroom, Inc. provides videoconference solutions by using Artificial Intelligence techniques. It offers transcripts, summaries with highlights, and gesture recognition. The company was founded by Julian Green, Andrew Rabinovich and Tarrence van As and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Part of Paper Education Co., Inc., Readlee, Inc. develops a learning tool that uses artificial intelligence for students. The company is based in San Francisco, CA. Readlee was acquired by Paper Education Co., Inc. on March 14, 2023.

KaiPod Learning, Inc. is an education startup that operates a network of learning pods and microschools, providing academic support, enrichment activities, and socialization opportunities for online learners, homeschoolers, and students from traditional schools. The company is based in Newton, MA and was founded by Amar Kumar, who has been the CEO since incorporation. The company prioritizes parental choice, flexibility, and academic success, and also operates KaiPod Catalyst, the nation's first microschool accelerator, encouraging educators to launch microschools in their communities.

Rethinc, Inc. is an interracial consulting group based in New York, NY that focuses on building inclusive and equitable organizations in the public and private sectors. The company offers a podcast and blog where they bring together organizational, industry, and thought leaders to better understand what makes it hard, what it takes to make it better, and imagine a world in which strong human relationships actually helped us to get things done. Additionally, the Rethinc App allows organizations to capture, visualize, and track their current state of inclusion in real-time, empowering managers to create and sustain organizations where employees feel like they truly belong. The company was founded by Kate Gerson, John E. Deasy, Gina Breedlove, and Kenan Bishop, with Kate Gerson serving as the CEO since incorporation.

Reconstruction US, Inc. develops e-Learning applications. The American company was founded in 2019 by Roland Fryer and Kaya Henderson. Kaya Henderson has been the CEO since 2019.

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.

White Deer Management LLC (White Deer Management) is a private equity firm founded in 2008 by Benjamin Allen Guill and Thomas Jeffery Edelman. The firm is headquartered in Houston, Texas with additional office in New York.

PineBridge Investments LLC (PBI) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 2010 and is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Pinebridge Investments Holdings (US) LLC, ultimately held by Chiltonlink Ltd. in British Virgin Islands. PBI provides investment management/advisory services to US registered investment companies, privately offered pooled investment vehicles (which includes CLOs) and separate advisory accounts for sophisticated institutional and individual clients.

PineBridge Investments Europe Ltd. (PineBridge-UK) is the fund management subsidiary of Pinebridge Investments Holdings (US) LLC, ultimately owned by The Li Family's Northumbrian Water Group Ltd. in Great Britain. The firm was founded in 1987 and formerly known as Landmark Money Management Ltd. and as Law, Dempsey & Co. Ltd. Headquartered in London, PineBridge-UK provides investment advice and markets investment products to clients around the world.

The Association of Certified Fraud Examiners is a global organization that aims to reduce fraud worldwide by empowering anti-fraud professionals with leading-edge training, resources, and professional certification. The organization is based in Austin, TX. The organization offers membership, certification, and recertification programs, as well as fraud resources such as a fraud library, case studies, and a blog.

Texas Society of Certified Public Accountants operates as a society of Certified Public Accountants. The company was founded in 1928 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.