Alfredo Castro

The Stephens Group LLC (Stephens Group) is an independent Private Equity firm founded in 2006 by W. R. Stephens and Elizabeth Stephens Campbell. The firm is headquartered in Little Rock, Arkansas.

AgraQuest, Inc. develops pesticides and provides best management services. The company was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in Research Triangle Park, NC.

Spinnaker Insurance Co. is a national property and casualty insurance company. The company is headquartered in Bedminster, NJ.

Nor1, Inc. provides revenue enhancing software solutions for the hotel, cruise line, and airline industries. It offers solutions for pricing and merchandising, guest satisfaction, customer anticipation, and front desk solutions. Its solutions include eStandby upgrade, a pre-arrival upsell solution, eReach and customer merchandising platform. The company was founded by Arthur L. Norins and Jason Bryant in 2004 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Arena Solutions, Inc. provides cloud-based product lifecycle management (PLM) applications. Its PLM suite of products including BOMControl and PartsList, as well as their supply chain exchange solution enable engineering and manufacturing teams and their extended supply chains to speed prototyping, reduce scrap, and streamline supply chain management. The firm’s cloud PLM applications simplify bill of materials and change management for companies of all sizes, and offer the right balance of flexibility and control at every point in the product lifecycle. The company was founded by Eric Larkin and Michael J. Topolovac in February 2000 and is headquartered in Foster, CA.

Green & Grow, Inc. develops and markets biologically derived agricultural products. It markets Agriplier, a non-living and non-toxic microbe derived by-products, which contain specific metabolites and compounds that improve crops. The company was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Englewood, CO.

NewLeaf Symbiotics, Inc. develops and commercializes a family of beneficial bacteria. It commercializes Pink Pigmented Facultative Methylotrophs bacteria that improves plant health, promote early growth, and increase crop yield. The company was founded by Stephen Kahn, Thomas R. Laurita and Michael Bielski in 2012 and is headquartered in St. Louis, MO.

Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC is a registered broker-dealer subsidiary of Morgan Stanley Domestic Holdings, Inc., ultimately owned by Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) in the US. Headquartered in New York City, the firm was founded in 1987 and provides debt and equity services including underwriting, M&A advice, securities dealing and brokerage and trade execution. Their client base ranges from large global institutional investors to hedge funds at the cutting edge of innovation in the industry.

Hellman & Friedman LLC (Hellman & Friedman) is a private equity firm founded in 1984 by Warren Hellman and Tully Friedman. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Otter Capital LLC is a private equity/venture capital firm founded in 2001 by John Pasquesi. The firm is headquartered in Woodside, California.

Decimal, Inc. provides flat fee retirement and savings plans for small businesses and entrepreneurs. It offers Single(k) plans for the business owner with part-time W-2 employees or no employees, and Express(k), a 401(k) plan, and Custom(k), a custom retirement plan. It provides Starter(k), a payroll-deduction IRA solution for small businesses. The company was founded by Isabelle Quesada, Kyle Stephan and Chad W. Parks in 1999 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Equity Risk Partners, Inc. engages in the provision of insurance brokerage and risk management consulting services. It offers insurance and benefits, due diligence, transaction risk, and global products. The company was founded by Michael C. Marcon and Anthony Marcon in 1994 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Stephens Capital Partners LLC (Stephens Capital Partners) is a private equity subsidiary of SF Holding Corp founded in 1933. The firm is headquartered in Little Rock, Arkansas.

GLMX LLC develops a web-based platform for money market trading. Its product GLMX Meridian Trading Platform offers a single, integrated money market trading solution designed for the specific needs of institutional investors and funding managers. The firm also offers trading and liquidity management technology to financial markets. The company was founded by Glenn Havlicek, Dev Nag and Jeff Cordova in 2010 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

BioConsortia, Inc. provides microbial solutions for natural trait enhancement and yield improvement. It develops an Advanced Microbial Selection (AMS) process for crop trait enhancement that uses iterative rounds of plant phenotyping and selection to co-select for beneficial changes in the microbiome. The firm focuses on products for fertilizer use efficiency, growth improvement and both abiotic tolerance and biotic resistance, as commercial seed treatments, liquid in-furrow products, and granule products. The company was founded by Peter John Wigley and Andrew Broadwell in 2014 and is headquartered in Davis, CA.

Part of Inguran LLC, Fast Genetics, Inc. is a Canadian pig genetics company. The company is based in Saskatoon, Canada. The company was founded in 1982. The CEO is Gregg BeVier. Fast Genetics was acquired by Inguran LLC from HyLife Ltd. on July 08, 2015.

Rev360 LLC is a software development company that was founded in 2007. The company is based in Louisville, CO. Rev360 LLC specializes in developing software applications.

Cogent Breeding Ltd. supplies beef and dairy genetics. Its services include bovine genetics, sexed semen, proven sires, breeding advisors, and eat detection. The company was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in Chester, the United Kingdom.