Neil Firlit

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.

Pfingsten Partners LLC (Pfingsten Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 1989 by Thomas Steven Bagley. The firm is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

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.

McMaster-Carr Supply Co. supplies and markets industrial parts. It distributes air conditioners, clamps, drills, exhaust fans, generators, pipes, pumps, valves, saws, switches and thermal insulation. The company was founded in 1901 and is headquartered in Elmhurst, IL.

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.

Des-Case Corp. manufactures specialty filtration products for industrial lubricants. Its products include breathers, fluid handling, and visual analysis. The firm serves automotive, aviation, chemical, food and beverage and general manufacturing industries. The company was founded by Jim Waller in 1983 and is headquartered in Goodlettsville, TN.

A subsidiary of Mesirow Financial Holdings, Inc., Mesirow Financial, Inc. is a broker/dealer headquartered in Chicago with an additional office in New York City. The firm provides a full array of trading and execution services for their clients. They do not provide any internal research. Mesirow was founded in 1937 by Norman Mesirow.

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.

Pretium Packaging LLC engages in the design, manufacture, and sale of rigid plastic bottles and containers. Its custom polyethylene terephthalate products include salad dressing containers, peanut-butter jars, pickle jars, large wide-mouth containers for snack food, such as pretzels, nuts, and candy, bottles for juices, sauces, and jellies, liquor bottles, shampoo and hand soap containers, and stock bottles. The company was founded by Keith S. Harbison in 1992 and is headquartered in Chesterfield, MO.

Piper Sandler & Co. operates as an investment company, which engages in the provision of securities brokerage and investment banking services. The company is headquartered in Minneapolis, MN.

Northwestern University is a private institution founded in 1851 to serve the Northwest Territory, an area that now includes the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and parts of Minnesota. Northwestern has three campuses