Ted Chung

Founded in 1981, Wall Street Access, formerly Wall Street Clearing Corp., is a broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm is a subsidiary of Wall Street Access Corp.. They offer a full array of investment services to corporations, hedge funds, pension funds, trust banks, investment advisors, money managers, mutual funds and high net-worth individuals. They focus on healthcare, mergers & acquisitions, oil & gas, electricity, natural gas, machinery/agribusiness, small-cap equities and special situations sectors. The firm's merger arbitrage research platform enables investors to track both historic and real-time deal information. Wall Street Access offers best-in-class execution through their fixed-income trading platform that creates aggressive, two-sided markets on a large inventory of fixed-income securities. The firm also provides their clients with traditional sales coverage. They provide execution services for investment grade corporate bonds, U.S. Treasuries and U.S. Agencies to a network of over 2,000 global customers. Wall Street Access' approach creates both market transparency and liquidity in a marketplace that has historically not been served with these essentials. The firm seeks to provide best-in-class trade execution and generation of trading ideas. They actively assess and manage risk while executing innovative transactions in a fast-paced and constantly changing global market. Wall Street Access provides superior service, expertise and speedy execution in equities, options, bonds and currencies. The firm seeks to achieve superior execution through electronic connectivity to multiple exchanges combined with their access to significant pools of liquidity. Wall Street Access is an agent, managing trading volumes and finding liquidity in a discrete manner for their institutional clients. The firm's Prime Brokerage division serves small and medium sized hedge fund clients. Wall Street Access maintains a large institutional equity and options desk, as well as a 35-person fixed-income desk. The firm acts as an introducing broker to Goldman Sachs Execution & Clearing LP. , L.P., so your investors can be confident their assets are safe and secure at a leading custodian. Wall Street Access is a member of NYSE, ISE and NASDAQ OMX, as well as other exchanges.

AllianceBernstein LP (AB) is a SEC-registered investment advisor and mutual fund manager headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee. Founded in 2000, the firm is owned by Equitable Financial Life Insurance Co., ultimately held by Equitable Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: EQH). AB provides investment advice to investment companies, pension and profit-sharing plans, banks and thrift institutions, trusts, estates, government agencies, charitable organizations, individuals, corporations and other business entities.

1919 Investment Counsel LLC (1919ic) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland. The firm was founded in 2005 and is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Stifel Financial Corp. (NYSE: SF). On November 2014, Stifel acquired 1919ic from Legg Mason, Inc. Prior to and as a result of this acquisition, the firm changed their name from Legg Mason Investment Counsel LLC to 1919 Investment Counsel LLC. 1919ic provides comprehensive investment counsel services to both individual and institutional clients, and financial planning and family office services to individual clients.

Tennessee Consolidated Retirement System (TCRS) is a State-owned pension fund manager headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee. Founded in 1972, TCRS is a defined benefit pension plan that provides lifetime retirement, survivor and disability benefits for employees and their beneficiaries. The firm covers state employees, higher education employees, K-12 public school teachers and employees of political subdivisions who have elected to participate in the plan.

Part of The Toronto-Dominion Bank, A.H. Williams, Inc. is an American public finance investment company. The company is based in NY. A.H. Williams was acquired by Commerce Bancorp LLC (New Jersey) on March 27, 1998.

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

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

American Capital Asset Management LLC (American Capital) is a private equity firm founded in 1986 by Malon Wilkus. The firm is headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland.

PNC Capital Advisors LLC (PCA) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland. The firm is a wholly-owned direct subsidiary of PNC Bank, NA, which is wholly-owned by The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. (NYSE: PNC), a financial holding company. The firm was founded in 2009 from the business combination of PNC Capital Advisors, Inc. and Allegiant Asset Management Co. following the acquisition of National City Corp., the parent of Allegiant, by PNC. PCA provides taxable fixed income discretionary investment advisory services to institutional accounts.

The Adams Diversified Equity Fund, Inc. (Mutual Fund Manager) (dba Adams Express) is the mutual fund management division of the Adams Diversified Equity Fund, Inc. (NYSE: ADX), an investment company headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland. The firm was founded in 1929 and formerly known as Adams Express Co. Adams Express manages a closed-end equity fund for various types of investors.

Veda Investment Group LLC is an investment manager that focuses on investing in companies that provide solutions to lower the cost of healthcare. Veda Investment Group is based in Bethesda, MD. The private company believes that healthcare is at a crossroads and is committed to investing in companies that deliver efficiency and innovation to the healthcare system.

Height Analytics LLC is an investment research firm headquartered in Washington, DC. The firm was founded by John Akridge and Andrew Parmentier in 2008 and they are a subsidiary of Height Capital LLC. Height Analytics provides differentiated and comprehensive insights to help clients make key investment and operational decisions. They bring a quantitative and market-centric approach to policy analysis, finding opportunities free of the rigidity of a defined coverage list.

Medco, Inc. provides medical supplies and equipment. Its products include nebulizers and compressors, patient lifts and Slings, portable ramps, scooters, stair lifts and ramps, vehicle accessories, walking aids and wheelchairs. The firm offers 24-hour emergency service, free local pick-up and delivery of product, billing of primary or secondary payer sources, reworking of denied claims, evaluation of client for specialized products, respiratory health education for patients, cleaning of equipment and labor for time warranty repair of defective products. The company is headquartered in Orange Park, FL.

The Brethren Home Community provides retirement living, assisted living, and nursing care services. It also offers residential living, personal care, health care, rehabilitation care, memory care and adult day services. The company was founded in 1908 and is headquartered in New Oxford, PA.

National Public Finance Guarantee Corp. provides investment advice for insurance company portfolio. The company was founded on December 25, 1959 and is headquartered in Purchase, NY.

MBIA Insurance Corp. provides insurance services. It works with non-US public financial services. The firm focuses on detecting any deterioration in credit quality or changes in the economic, political or regulatory environment which may adversely affect guaranteed obligations of implementation through the final maturity of transactions. The company is headquartered in Armonk, NY.

The National Mentoring Partnership, Inc. provides public voice, developing and delivering resources to mentoring programs nationwide and promoting mentoring through standards, cutting-edge research and tools. The company was founded in 1990 and is headquartered in Alexandria, VA.

Johns Hopkins Medicine, Inc. owns and operates hospitals. It offers health care services in the areas of burn and wound care, cardiac surgery, cardiology, endocrinology, gastroenterology, gynecology/obstetrics, innovation in quality patient care, internal medicine, nephrology, neurology, neurosurgery, oncology, orthopedic surgery, otolaryngology-head and neck surgery. The company was founded by Johns Hopkins in 1997 and is headquartered in Baltimore, MD.

Sanofi-Aventis U.S. LLC engages in the provision of pharmaceutical products. It discovers, develops, produces and markets innovative therapies. The firm extensive research and development efforts are focused on health care challenges in cardiology, oncology and internal medicine, as well as metabolic diseases, central nervous system disorders, ophthalmology and vaccines. The company is headquartered in Bridgewater, NJ.