Mark G. Lazarus

Kirr, Marbach & Co. LLC (KM) is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Columbus, Indiana. The firm was founded in 1975 by David M. Kirr and Terry B. Marbach. KM manages separate accounts and is the adviser to the Kirr, Marbach Partners Value Fund (KMVAX), an open-end registered investment company.

PNC Bank, NA (Investment Management) (PNC-IM) is the asset management division of PNC Bank, NA, a banking company headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The firm is ultimately held by The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. (NYSE: PNC). PNC-IM manages assets for institutions and high-net worth individuals and provides tailored investments, wealth planning, trust and estate administration and private banking to high-net-worth families and individuals.

Voya Investment Management Co. LLC (Voya IM) is a SEC-registered investment advisor and mutual fund manager headquartered in New York City. Formerly known as ING Investment Management Co. LLC, the firm was founded in 1972 under the name of Aetna Capital Management, Inc. They are a wholly-owned subsidiary of Voya Investment Management LLC, ultimately held by Voya Financial, Inc. (NYSE: VOYA). Voya IM provides investment management services to a wide range of clients and investment vehicles.

Voya Investments LLC (VIL) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona. The predecessor of VIL began business as an investment adviser in 1994. In 2001, the name of the investment adviser changed from Pilgrim Investments, Inc. to ING Pilgrim Investments LLC. They became ING Investments LLC in 2002 and Voya Investments LLC in 2014. The firm is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Voya Funds Services LLC, ultimately held by Voya Financial, Inc. (NYSE: VOYA). VIL serves as an investment adviser for certain open- and closed-end registered investment companies and to certain Cayman Islands-based CLOs.

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.

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.

Robert W. Baird & Co., Inc. (Broker) (Baird-Broker) is the broker-dealer division of Robert W. Baird & Co., Inc., an investment bank and financial services company headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The firm was founded in 1919 and is ultimately owned by Baird Financial Group, Inc. Baird-Broker offers a full suite of comprehensive trading services for institutional clients.

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.

Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. LLC is a registered broker-dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1967 and is a subsidiary of Alliance Capital Management LLC, ultimately held by Equitable Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: EQH). Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. provides trading and executions services to their clients.

William Blair & Co. LLC (William Blair) is a SEC-registered broker/dealer firm headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. The firm was founded by William McCormick Blair in 1935 and is a subsidiary of WBC Holdings LP. Until 1941, they were known as Blair, Bonner & Co. William Blair provides broking services to individual, institutional and issuing clients.

Clearobject, Inc. provides software-as-a-service and virtual private clouds for IBM development and asset management tools. It engages in bringing enterprise applications to the cloud, enabling global collaborative development, and production and analysis of software and products in real time on individual, secure, and private hybrid cloud environments. The company was founded by Vishal Kapashi and Paul Young in 2010 and is headquartered in Fishers, IN.

Fitch Ratings Ltd. (FRL) is an investment research firm headquartered in London, UK. The firm was founded in 1977 and is a subsidiary of Fitch Ratings, Inc., ultimately held by The Hearst Family Trust in the US. FRL provides research and specialized ratings of services to residential and commercial mortgages, asset managers and managed funds. They also publish quantitatively based ratings such as Q-IFS ratings.

Kite Realty Group LP operates as a real estate investment trust. It engages in the ownership, operation, acquisition, development, and redevelopment of neighborhood and community shopping centers in selected markets in the United States. The company was founded on August 16, 2004 and is headquartered in Indianapolis, IN.

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.

Part of KPMG International Cooperative, KPMG, Inc. provides audit and accounting services. The company is based in Vancouver, Canada. The CEO of the Canadian company is Walter R. Pela.

PricewaterhouseCoopers International Ltd. operates as an international association of accounting and consultancy firm. The company was founded on June 24, 1998 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Jefferies LLC is a global investment bank and institutional securities firm headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1962 and is a subsidiary of Jefferies Group LLC, ultimately held by Jefferies Financial Group, Inc. (NYSE: JEF). Jefferies provides corporate clients with research and execution services in equity, fixed income, and foreign exchange markets, as well as a full range of investment banking services such as underwriting, mergers and acquisitions, restructuring and recapitalization, and other advisory services, with all businesses operating in the Americas, Europe and Asia.

Elevate Ventures, Inc (Elevate Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2010. The firm is headquartered in Indianapolis.

Westerman, Inc. manufactures equipment for gas and oil industry. It offers planning, design engineering, and precision manufacturing. The company was founded in 1909 and is headquartered in Bremen, OH.

Nommi, Inc. is a company that has developed a high-grade, robotic kitchen capable of producing and dispensing any grain-, noodle- or lettuce-based dish through a fully integrated cooking system. Nommi is based in El Segundo, CA. The company is backed by lead investor, a venture capital fund with AUM and Wavemaker Labs, a food automation focused venture studio. The company's seasoned team of food and robotics expertise is made up of executives and founders from Miso Robotics, SBE, C3, Walt Disney Imagineering, and others. The company was founded by Sam Nazarian, Buck Jordan. Sam Nazarian has been the CEO since incorporation.

Wavemaker Partners LLC(Wavemaker Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 2003 by David A siemer & Eric Manlunas. The firm is headquartered in Santa Monica, Los Angeles.

Pongalo, Inc. provides cable subscription services. It offers documentaries, kids, movies, news, series, sports, and tele novels. The company was founded by Richard J. Hull, Jorge Granier-Phelps and Carlos Granier on August 13, 2014 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

Part of Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp., BearingPoint, Inc. /Commercial Business North America/ provides management and technology consulting services. The company is based in Dallas, TX. BearingPoint, Inc. /Commercial Business North America was acquired by NTT DATA, Inc. from BearingPoint, Inc. on July 20, 2009.

Canyon Creek Capital Management LLC (Canyon Creek Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 2010 by James B. Jordan. The firm is headquartered in Santa Monica, California.

StepStone Group LP (StepStone) is a private equity firm founded in 2006 by Monte M. Brem, Tom Porter Keck and Jose A. Fernandez. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Proof Technology, Inc. provides a experience for law firms and paralegals. Its services include verification, transparency, and incentive. The company was founded by Eric Voogt and Mark Kreloff in April 2017 and is headquartered in Boulder, CO.

Insight Venture Management LLC (Insight Venture Partners) is a private equity/ venture capital subsidiary of Insight Holdings Group LLC founded in 1995 by Jeffrey L. Horing and Jerry Fred Murdock. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Founded in 1989 by Walter H. Annenberg, the Annenberg Foundation is headquartered in Radnor, Pennsylvania with an additional office in Los Angeles, California. The foundation provides funding and support to nonprofit organizations in the U.S. and globally. Their major program areas are education and youth development; arts and culture; civic, community and the environment; and health and human services. In addition, the Foundation operates a number of initiatives which expand and complement these program areas. The Foundation seeks to advance the public well-being through improved communication

University of Southern California is a private research university that mainly offers undergraduate, graduate & other higher education. The university was founded in 1880 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

McGraw-Hill Education, Inc. publishes and distributes educational content, software and services. The firm operates through four segments: Higher Education, K-12, International and Professional. The higher education segment relates to the development of product across all disciplines, the K-12 segment relates to content development and the international segment relates to locally developed products or adaptations and translations of existing higher education, K-12 and professional products in both digital and print format. The professional segment relates to new titles and revisions, similar to the higher education segment, and include activities related to the creation of the actual product. The company was founded by James Hill McGraw in 1888 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Aquicore, Inc. engages in the provision of commercial real estate software services. It offers an all-in-one asset operations and management platform. It solutions includes utility load analytics, utility budget, HVAC analytics, tenant billing, and building connectivity. The company was founded by Logan Soya in 2013 and is headquartered in Washington, DC.

Miso Robotics, Inc. develops robotics and artificial intelligence solutions for restaurants and prepared food industries. The firm uses AI and automation to solve the high pain points in restaurants and food preparation. The company was founded by Robert Anderson, Ryan Sinnet, David D. Zito, and John C. Miller in 2016 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.