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Founded by Chris Gardner in 1987, Gardner Rich LLC, formerly Gardner Rich & Co., is an NASD-registered broker/dealer located in Chicago. The firm's core business is institutional securities brokerage services, but they also participate in corporate underwriting. Their brokerage services include trading in global markets through both ordinary and ADR form. Gardner Rich specializes in providing services to public pension funds and Taft-Hartley plans. The firm provides a full array of trading and execution services for their clients. They do not provide any internal research.

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.

NCM Capital Management LLC (NCM) is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Ramsey, New Jersey. The firm was founded by Nicholas “Nick” LaVerghetta in 2009. NCM provides fee-based financial planning and portfolio management services to individual investors, trusts, estates, charitable organizations, foundations, pension and profit-sharing plans and various businesses.