Tim Malloy

Birch Hill Investment Advisors LLC (Birch Hill) is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor and wealth management firm headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. The firm was founded in 2007 by Miner Crary, Gary Mikula, Robert O'Neil and Thomas Reilly. Birch Hill provides investment advisory services to individuals, trusts, IRA’s and other employee benefit plans, endowment and foundations accounts.

Boston-based John Hancock Advisers, Inc. (JHA) is the mutual fund affiliate of John Hancock Financial Services, Inc. and manages the John Hancock family of retail and institutional mutual funds, as well as separate equity portfolios for private accounts and retirement plans for individual and institutional investors. In 2003, Manulife Financial Corp. (TSX, NYSE: MFC) and John Hancock Financial Services, Inc. (NYSE: JHF) announced that they would merge and would thus create a leading global insurance franchise. The combined company will market products and services under multiple brands including John Hancock in the US and Manulife in Canada and the US.

Thomas Weisel Asset Management LLC was engaged in the provision of a variety of U.S. equity investment products, distribution management services, and private equity and venture capital funds. The company was founded in 2001 and was headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Founded in 1989, Baring North America LLC is a registered investment advisor located in Boston. The firm manages institutional assets on behalf of clients located in the US. They are a direct subsidiary of MassMutual Baring Holding LLC and their ultimate parent is Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co.

Manulife Investment Management (US) LLC (Manulife IM (US)) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. The firm was founded in 1968 and is a subsidiary of John Hancock Subsidiaries LLC, ultimately held by Manulife Financial Corp. (NYSE, TSX: MFC), a Canadian-based financial services firm. Manulife IM-US manages assets for a variety of institutional and other types of clients, such as public and private pension funds, foundations, mandatory provident funds outside the US, financial institutions, investment trusts, separately managed account clients, and high net-worth individuals. The firm also manages registered funds, which includes UCITS, US and Canadian open- and closed-end mutual funds and privately offered unregistered investment funds.