Christopher Meiering

Cardiogenesis Corp. designs, develops, and distributes surgical products for the treatment of refractory angina in patients with chronic cardiac ischemia caused by coronary artery disease. The company was founded by Randy J. Kesten in April 1989 and is headquartered in Irvine, CA.

Go2Net, Inc. offers a network of technology and community driven web sites in the fields of personal, finance, commerce and games. The company also develops web related software

Pekin Hardy Strauss, Inc. (Pekin Hardy) is an independent, SEC-registered investment adviser headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. The firm was founded by Rick Singer in 1990 as Pekin Singer Strauss Asset Management, Inc. Pekin Hardy serves as the investment manager to the Appleseed Fund, a mutual fund registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, and provides investment management services to separately managed accounts, retirement plans, and other client accounts.

Marvell Technology Group Ltd. engages in the design, development, and sale of integrated circuits. The company offers System-on-a-Chip devices, which leverages technology portfolio of intellectual property in the areas of analog, mixed-signal, digital signal processing, and embedded and standalone integrated circuits. It also develops integrated hardware platforms along with software that incorporates digital computing technologies designed and configured to provide an optimized computing solution. The company was founded by Sehat Sutardja, Weili Dai and Pantas Sutardja in January 1995 and is headquartered in Hamilton, Bermuda.

Freestone Capital Management LLC (Freestone) is a SEC-registered investment advisor and wealth management firm headquartered in Seattle, Washington. The firm was founded by Gary Furukawa and Gary Smart in 1999 and is principally owned by Freestone Capital Holdings LLC. Freestone provides wealth management and investment advisory services to high net worth families and individuals on a discretionary or non-discretionary basis, typically through managed accounts. They also serve as investment manager to private funds.

Highland Capital Management LP (Highland) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Dallas, Texas. The firm was founded by James (Jim) Dondero and Mark Okada in 1993. They are owned by the Highland Claimant Trust. Highland acts as an investment adviser or sub-adviser to structured product vehicles (which include but not limited to CLOs and Collateralized Debt Obligations unregistered investment funds, and single Client accounts).

Part of KPMG International Cooperative, KPMG, Inc. provides audit and accounting services. The company is based in Vancouver, Canada. The CEO of the Canadian company is Walter R. Pela.

5V, Inc. engages in the provision of investment services with interest on merger and acquisition activities. The firm through its subsidiaries, is involved in the research, sale and after-market service of herb diet nutritional supplement and skin-care products. The company was founded on February 19, 2010 and is headquartered in Changzhou, China.

College Bound, Inc. provides educational services. The private company is based in Lakeville, MN.

University of Southern California is a private research university that mainly offers undergraduate, graduate & other higher education. The university was founded in 1880 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

Moody's Investors Service, Inc. is a credit rating and investment research firm headquartered in New York City. They are a subsidiary of Moody's Corp. (NYSE: MCO). The firm performs international financial research and analysis on commercial and government entities and provides a variety of analytic tools for assessing credit risk. Their clients include creditors, investment banks and commercial banks.

Fitch Ratings, Inc. is a global rating agency and investment research firm headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded by John Knowles in 1913 as Fitch Publishing Co. They are a subsidiary of Fitch Group, Inc., ultimately owned by The Hearst Family Trust. Fitch Ratings seeks to provide independent and prospective credit opinions, research and data to the world's credit markets. Their approach is based on a foundation of local market experience that covers capital markets in over 150 countries. The firm's ratings analysis and rating decisions are based on established criteria, methodologies and ratings definitions which they apply in a consistent manner. Fitch Ratings provides coverage of the following markets: Economics, Banks, Insurance, Sovereigns, Corporates, Structured Finance, Public Finance – International, Public Finance – US, Infrastructure & Project, and Finance.

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.

Deloitte LLP (New York) engages in the provision of audit, consulting, tax, and advisory solutions. It offers services relating to tax, consulting, audit and assurance, Deloitte private company services, mergers and acquisitions, risk and financial advisory, analytics, and cloud. The company was founded by William Welch Deloitte, George A. Touche, Charles Waldo Haskins, and Elijah Watt Sells in 1845 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP provides legal services. It is a business and litigation firm with a diverse client base, includes business, financial institutions and not-for-profit organizations, government entities and individual clients. The firm represents business, financial, institutional and individual clients, including publicly held multinational corporations, large and mid-sized privately held companies, partnerships and emerging companies. The company was founded by Robert D. Klingler in 1873 and is headquartered in St. Louis, MO.

American Bar Association provides legal services. It provides law school accreditation, continuing legal education, legal information and other services to assist legal professionals. The firm has members which include judges, court administrators, law professors, and non-practicing attorneys. The company was founded on August 21, 1878 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Wenatchee Valley Medical Center PS provides healthcare services. The company was founded in 1940 and is headquartered in Wenatchee, WA.

Founded in 2005, Roaring Blue Lion Capital Management LP is a hedge fund manager headquartered in Dallas, Texas. The firm provides investment management services to high net worth-individuals, investment companies (including mutual funds, other pooled investment vehicles (including hedge funds) and corporations.

The Illinois State Bar Association is a state bar association that serves lawyers. The association is based in Springfield, IL. The association provides various resources for lawyers, including legal forms, expert services, and publications. It also offers continuing legal education programs and hosts events for lawyers.

CFO Oncall, Inc. provides financial management and CFO services to private and public businesses on a part-time or interim basis. CFO Oncall is based in Weston, FL and provides services to clients throughout the United States. The private company's services include financial reporting, back office accounting, compliance, financial audit preparation, SEC financial reporting, accounting and bookkeeping services, and management advisory services. The company specializes in presenting the right information in the right format to the right people to help companies prepare for financial audits.

Northwest Research Associates, Inc. provides geophysical science research services. It offers research services on solar and stellar physics, atmosphere and climate, electromagnetic wave propagation and fluid mechanics, and data assimilation and statistical signal processing. The firm also provides space weather indices, field observations in the Indian ocean, shoreline monitoring service, video metric systems, and coherent radio receiving system. The company was founded by Donald Delisi and Edward Fremouw in 1984 and is headquartered in Redmond, WA.

Columbia Management Investment Advisers LLC (CMIA) is a registered investment advisor and mutual fund manager headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. The firm is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Ameriprise Financial, Inc. (NYSE: AMP). The firm was formed in 2010 as the result of Ameriprise Financial Services' (AFS) acquisition of the long-term asset management business of Columbia Management Group (CMG) from Bank of America. AFS merged CMG's long-term asset management business with their subsidiary, RiverSource Investments LLC, under the name Columbia Management Investment Advisors. CMIA offers equity and fixed-income retail and institutional investment products for various types of clients.

GigOptix-Terasquare Korea (GTK) Co., Ltd. manufactures and distributes communications semiconductor components. Its products include clock data recovery devices and electrical dispersion compensators. The company was founded by Yoon Hyung-Suk and Bae Hyeon-Min on December 2, 2010 and is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea.

Ranger Global Real Estate Advisors LLC (RGREA) is an independent registered investment adviser headquartered in New York and was founded in 2016. RGREA provides investment management services to their advisory clients, which are comprised of various pooled investment vehicles, including mutual funds, collective investment trusts and private investment funds, as well as separate accounts.

TeraSquare, Inc. provides networking and high-speed interface solutions. Its products include clock data recovery, GearBox, and electrical dispersion compensator. The company was founded by Hyung Suk Yoon and Hyeon Min Bae in December 2010 and is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea.

Red Tricycle, Inc. operates a digital media platform for moms and families which offers adventures and kids activities. The firm provides authoritative, localized content to its online community of mothers through a variety of communication devices: email, website, social media, and mobile. It offers email newsletter and delivers must-have recommendations for parents. The company was founded by Jacqueline R. Boland in 2006 and is headquartered in Sausalito, CA.