John J. Premus

Borland Software Corp. designs open application lifecycle management solutions. The firm's products include required management, change management, software testing, test management, automated testing and performance testing. The company was incorporated in 1983 and is headquartered in Provo, UT.

Genentech, Inc. develops, manufactures and markets pharmaceutical products for life-threatening medical conditions. It studies various areas including oncology, immunology, neuroscience, ophthalmic diseases, microbial pathogenesis, metabolic diseases, cardiovascular diseases, and opportunistic areas. The company was founded by Herb W. Boyer and Robert A. Swanson in 1976 and is headquartered in South San Francisco, CA.

DWS Investment Management Americas, Inc. (DIMA) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in New York City. The firm is a subsidiary of DWS USA Corp., ultimately held by Deutsche Bank AG (ETR: DBK) in Germany. The firm was founded in 1984 and formerly known as Deutsche Investment Management Americas Inc. In 2018, they changed their name into DWS as part of the rebranding of Deutsche Asset Management. DIMA provides discretionary and non-discretionary investment advisory services to various institutional clients. They also provide investment advisory services for its municipal bond strategies through wrap fee programs.

Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc. (DBSI) is a SEC-registered broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1971 and is a wholly-owned investment banking and brokerage arm of DB U.S. Financial Markets Holding Corp., ultimately held by Deutsche Bank AG (NYSE: DB, FRA: DBK) in Germany. DBSI provides securities brokerage and investment advisory services to domestic and international private clients and institutions. They are also a primary dealer in US government securities as designated by the Federal Reserve.

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.

Founded in 1997, Spencer Clarke LLC is a research-based full-service brokerage and investment banking firm headquartered in New York City. The firm offers a full range of services including: equities, fixed-income securities, mutual funds, portfolio and asset allocation, banking and fee-based managed accounts. For clients with a substantial net worth, they also offer a wide range of products and services including access to IPO and secondary stock offerings as well as the ability to participate in private placements. The valuation methods that Spencer Clarke uses are traditional and are based on such commonly utilized metrics as earnings, sales, EBITDA and free cash flow both on an absolute and relative basis. The research team employs a combination of macro-economic, fundamental and technical analysis. They also provide tactical asset allocation and investment diversification services. They perform research on individual equities among multiple, sectors, markets and indexes.

Sentilla Corp. provides data center performance management solutions. It offers alerting/ monitoring, multi data center availability, data center infrastructure integration and cloud and virtualization management platforms. The firm also provides asset management, capcity planning and power availability solutions. The company was founded by Cory Sharp, Joseph Polastre and Robert Szewczyk in 2003 and is headquartered in Redwood, CA.

Act-On Software, Inc. provides marketing software solutions. It offers customized training, consulting and production, email and reputation guidance, design gallery, lead management, trigger programs, analytics, customer relationship management (CRM) integration, and cloud-based integrated marketing automation software that allows companies to manage online marketing efforts, email, mobile, Web, and social networking from a single dashboard. The company was founded by Raghunath Raghavan and is headquartered in Portland, OR.

Sofinnova Investment Inc (Sofinnova Investment) is a venture capital firm founded in 1976 by Jacques F. vallle & Joel F. Martin. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

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.

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.

CIGNA International Corp. provides life, accident, health, fire, marine and casualty insurance services. The company is headquartered in Philadelphia, PA.

Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. is a broker/dealer located in New York City. The firm provides a comprehensive range of equity execution services exclusively to institutional clients worldwide. Their clients include private banks, mutual funds, hedge funds, independent asset managers and investment advisors and other brokers.

Antenna Software, Inc. offers cloud-based enterprise mobility software solutions. Its products are designed to enable information technology professionals and business executives to create and manage mobile applications, website,s and content. The company was founded by Peter Semmelhack in 1998 and is headquartered in Jersey City, NJ.

Makrod Investment Associates, Inc. (MIA) is a registered investment advisor headquartered in Verona, New Jersey and was founded in 1974. MIA provides investment advisory services to high-net worth individuals, individuals, pension and profit-sharing plans, trusts and charitable organizations.

FX Alliance LLC operates as a holding company with interest in providing electronic foreign exchange trading solutions. Its proprietary technology platform enables it to deliver reliable FX price discovery, trade execution and automation of pre-trade and post-trade transaction workflow with access to a deep pool of liquidity from banks and other liquidity providers. FX Alliance comprehensive suite of electronic FX trading products, including FX spot, FX forwards, FX swaps and non-deliverable forwards are used by asset managers, banks, broker-dealers, corporations, hedge funds, prime brokers and other institutions worldwide. The company's platform supports the over-the-counter trading of gold and silver on a spot, forward or swap basis and provides access to bank deposits. FX Alliance offers single point access to multiple execution mechanisms, including collaborative trading, request for stream, continuous streaming prices, and an anonymous electronic communication network, as well as execution mechanisms proprietary to specific liquidity providers. It offers institutional clients with 24-hour direct access, five days per week to the foreign exchange market, which is a liquid financial market. The company was founded on September 22, 2006 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

U.S. Bank NA (Cincinnati Ohio Investment Management) (USB-IM) is the asset management division of U.S. Bank NA, which is ultimately held by the US Bancorp (NYSE: USB). The firm is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota. USB-IM provides tailored investment management services to individuals and institutional investors.

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center operates as a private cancer center. It offers cancer care services to adult; and child and teen patients. Its services include risk assessment and screening; diagnosis and treatment; clinical trials; patient and caregiver education; and pediatric clinical trials. The company was founded by John J. Astor and Charlotte Astor in 1884 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Apexigen America, Inc. is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, which focuses on the discovery and development of innovative antibody-based therapeutics for the treatment of cancer with a focus on immuno-oncology. Its product portfolio includes humanized antibodies, targeting diseases such as cancer, inflammatory diseases and ophthalmic disease. The company was founded by Xiao Dong Yang in July 2010 and is headquartered in San Carlos, CA.

QS Investors LLC (QSI) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded and formed in August 2010 through an MBO of the Quantitative Strategies Group within DB Advisors, the institutional asset management division of Deutsche Asset Management. QSI is a wholly-owned subsidiary of QS Investors Holdings LLC, ultimately owned by Franklin Resources, Inc. (NYSE: BEN). The firm provides investment advisory and sub-advisory services to a diverse array of institutional and retail clients and funds.