Katherine Peralta

Fidelity Management & Research Co. (FMR) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. The firm was founded in 1946 and is a subsidiary of FMR LLC, also known as Fidelity Investments. FMR provides investment supervisory services, which include sub-advisory services, to Fidelity's family of mutual funds and exchange-traded funds, qualified tuition programs, privately offered unregistered investment funds, separately managed account clients, and various other institutional accounts.

Meridian Equity Partners, Inc. (MEP) is a registered, agency-only broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 2004 by Jon Acquafredda and Columb Lytle. MEP provides best-of-breed strategic solutions to the investment community for Equity, Option and Electronic Execution. The firm is a full-service trading on the NYSE floor and has access to all markets and liquidity pools. Their options desk specializes in accessing liquidity through their counterparty network, and also caters to high frequency and quantitative traders.

Strategas Research Partners LLC Provides research services specializing in macro-economic and policy research. Its products include asset management and venture capital. The company was founded by Jason DeSena Trennert, Nicholas Bohnsack and Don Rissmiller in 2006 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Founded in 1994, Bay Crest Partners LLC is an SEC-registered broker/dealer located in New York City. The firm is a member of the NYSE, SIPC, FINRA, NASDAQ, ISE, ARCA. They provide agency execution of equities, equity options and index options. They also offer global execution services.

Seven Points Capital LLC is a proprietary trading firm that provides short term trading. It also provides training program about the foundation and structure of the markets. The company was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

KPMG LLP engages in the provision of audit, tax, and advisory services. It serves the banking and capital markets, building, construction and real estate, consumer and retail, energy, natural resources and chemicals, financial services, government and public sector, healthcare and life sciences, industrial manufacturing, insurance, media and entertainment, private equity, technology, telecommunications, and venture capital industries. The company was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Nomura Securities International, Inc. (NSI) is a registered broker/dealer headquartered in New York City and was founded in 1969. The firm is a division of Nomura Holding America, Inc. and their ultimate parent is Nomura Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: NMR, TYO: 8604, AMS: 8604). NSI provides securities brokerage services, as well as asset management, domestic retail, global markets, global investment banking and global merchant banking services. The firm's fixed-income business consists of bond sales and trading, origination and product supply for securitization deals and real estate-focused asset finance operations (in cooperation with Investment Banking). In the equity markets, NSI offers sales and trading of domestic and foreign stocks on a global basis, primarily for institutional investors.

Cornell University is an educational institution that offers undergraduate and post graduate programs. It was founded in 1865 and is based in Ithaca, NY.

EdVenture, Inc. operates as a business and investment opportunity research company. The company was founded on November 8, 2003 and is headquartered in Columbia, SC.