Jim Puetz

Anheuser-Busch Cos. LLC engages in the production, distribution, and sale of beer, soft drinks, and other non-alcoholic and non-carbonated products. It offers Budweiser family, bud light family, Michelob UKTRA family, stella artois, hoegaarden, and leffe. The company was founded in 1852 and is headquartered in St. Louis, MO.

Government Employees Insurance Co. provides property and casualty insurance services. The firm also offer motorcycles, all-terrain vehicles, boats, homes, apartments and mobile home insurance products. The company was founded in 1936 and is headquartered in Chevy Chase, MD.

XTRA Corp. provides transportation equipment leasing services. It is a global transportation equipment lessor with operations in the North American over-the-road and domestic intermodal markets. The company was founded on July 12, 1999 and is headquartered in St. Louis, MO.

Titanium Metals Corp. produces titanium sponge, ingot, and slab. Its activities include all phases of titanium manufacturing and sales, from converting rutile ore into sponge, to production of ingot and slab and mill products. The firm's products include titanium sponge, melted products, mill products and industrial fabrications. The company was founded in 1950 and is headquartered in Exton, PA.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation was formed in 1997 as the William H. Gates Foundation. In 1999, the foundation was renamed the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Trust was created in January 2000 through the merger of the Gates Learning Foundation, which worked to expand access to technology through public libraries and the William H. Gates Foundation, which focused on improving global health. The foundation participates in preventive approaches and collaborative endeavors with government, philanthropic and not-for-profit partners. Priority is given to grants that leverage additional support and serve as a catalyst for long-term, systemic change. The foundation also provides funds to promote greater equity in global health, education and public libraries. Through their partnerships in communities across the US, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is committed to raising the high school graduation rate and helping all students, regardless of race or family income. The foundation is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

Part of Berkshire Hathaway, Inc., PCC Structurals, Inc. is a world leader in structural investment castings for various applications including aerospace, power generation, military, medical, and commercial markets. PCC Structurals is based in Portland, OR and has multiple locations across the United States. The private company provides a wide portfolio of high-quality components, some as large as 100 inches (250cm), with applications in jet aircraft engines, airframes, industrial gas turbine (igt) engines, military armaments, medical prosthesis, and many other industrial markets.

Stoel Rives LLP provides full suite of transactional and litigation solutions for U.S. and international clients. Its practice areas include corporate, energy, environmental, intellectual property, labor and employment, land use and construction, litigation, natural resources, real estate, renewable energy and technology law. The firm?s clients include financial institutions, public and private utilities, energy and renewable energy companies, developers, manufacturers, retailers, hospitals, universities, agribusinesses, software companies, food and beverage companies, charitable foundations, telecommunications and forestry companies, among others. The company was founded in 1907 and is headquartered in Portland, OR.

General Reinsurance AG engages in providing reinsurance of all kinds to domestic and international customers. It also offers all kinds of reinsurance on a worldwide basis including life, health, motor, marine, property and general third party liability insurance. The company was founded in 1846 and is headquartered in Cologne, Germany.

Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC (GS&Co.) is a securities brokerage firm headquartered in New York City. Founded in 1927, the firm is a subsidiary of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE: GS). GS&Co. provides services to help hedge funds manage risk, monitor portfolios, maintain liquidity and build their businesses. They offer clients access to global equity and derivatives markets, as well as foreign exchange, commodities, European Lefts, rates and credit across the Americas, Europe and Asia. The firm proactively monitors capital markets, searching for pockets of liquidity and news that may require changes to those strategies. Integration with the Goldman Sachs network gives clients access to the firm's sectored block trades and their insights into price discovery. Their electronic trading program provides clients with tools to manage their trades from pre-trade analytics to post-trade analysis.

Chevron Aerostructures Ltd. supplies precision engineering services. The company is headquartered in Leicester, the United Kingdom.

West End Capital Management (Bermuda) Ltd. provides investment management services. The company was founded by Mark James Byrne in 1998 and is headquartered in Hamilton, Bermuda.

Berkshire Hathaway, Inc. (Investment Management) (BHI-IM) is the asset management division of Berkshire Hathaway, Inc. (NYSE: BRK), an American multi-national conglomerate headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska. The firm was founded in 1955 and traces its roots to Valley Falls Company, a textile manufacturing company that was formed in 1839. In 1962, Warren Buffett started to acquire shares of the company until he had majority ownership of it. Berkshire Hathaway engages in insurance businesses conducted on both a primary basis and a reinsurance basis.

Founded in 1835, Special Metals Wiggin Ltd. is a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway, Inc. that produces and supplies nickel alloys and welding products. The private company is based in Hereford, UK.

The American Academy of Arts & Sciences is an organization that honors excellence and brings together leaders. The non-profit company is based in Cambridge, MA.

Part of Berkshire Hathaway, Inc., GEICO Indemnity Co. is an American company. The private company is located in the US.

Charter Brokerage LLC provides logistics services to the petroleum industries. Its services include complete customs, import, export, drawback related services and compliance-focused customs to importers and exporters in the U.S. and Canada. The company was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Norwalk, CT.

JPMorgan Chase Bank, NA provides commercial banking services. It offers investment banking, merchant services, and institutional asset management services. The company is headquartered in New York, NY.

Berkshire Hathaway Assurance Corp. offers municipal and state bonds. The company was established in December, 2007 and is headquartered in Omaha, NE.

WP Co. LLC publishes newspapers. The company was founded by Stilson Hutchins on December 6, 1877 and is headquartered in Washington, DC.

Texas Honing Inc. provides precision tubular products and services. Its services include honing, boring, trepanning, drilling, turning, gun drilling, CNC machining, CNC off-center drilling, straightening, saw cutting, polishing and finished machining. The company was founded in 1976 and is headquartered in Pearland, TX.

Aerocraft Heat Treating Co., Inc. manufactures forgings, castings, bar, plate and rough machined parts. The firm offers heat treating services for forgings and die forgings, tools, castings, bars, rods, plates, ingots, billets, slabs, weldments, and rough-machined parts made of steel, titanium, nickel, brass, hastelloy, haynes, inconel, waspaloy, rene, astroloy, monel, invar, nitronic and copper nickel materials. The company was founded in 1959 nd is headquartered in Paramount, CA.

Part of Berkshire Hathaway, Inc., PCC UK Global Holdings Ltd. functions as a holding private company whose subsidiaries lease real estate properties. The company is based in Birmingham, UK.

Part of Berkshire Hathaway, Inc., Caledonian Alloys Ltd. is a British company that supplies metal products. The private company is based in Livingston, UK. Caledonian Alloys was founded in 1996.

Founded in 1935, SPS Technologies Ltd. is a precision components and fasteners manufacturer for the aerospace industry. Part of SPS International SARL, the private company is based in Leicester, UK.

Part of Berkshire Hathaway, Inc., SPS Aerostructures Ltd. is a British company that manufactures metal structures and parts of structures. The private company is based in Annesley, UK and was founded in 1985.

Burlington Northern Santa Fe LLC engages in the provision of freight rail transportation services. The firm operates various facilities and equipment to support transportation system, including its infrastructure and locomotives and freight cars. It also offers support facilities for rail operations include yards and terminals throughout its rail network, system locomotive shops to perform locomotive servicing and maintenance, a centralized network operations center for train dispatching, and network operations for monitoring and management. The company was founded on December 16, 1994 and is headquartered in Fort Worth, TX.

PCC Aérostructures Dorval, Inc. manufactures and engineer components and structural aricraft sub-assemblies. It also offers aluminium aircraft structural components, and 5-axis complex machining.The company was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Dovel, Canada.

JPMorgan Chase Bank NA (United Kingdom) provides banking services. The company was founded on January 1, 1993 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Part of Berkshire Hathaway, Inc., SOS Metals (UK) Ltd. is a British company founded in 2007 that specializes in wholesale of waste and scrap. The private company is based in South Normanton, UK.

Government Employees Insurance Co. (Investment Portfolio) (GEICO-IP) is the investment portfolio of Government Employees Insurance Co., an insurance company headquartered in Chevy Chase, Maryland. The firm is a subsidiary of GEICO Corp., which is owned by Berkshire Hathaway, Inc. (NYSE: BRK). GEICO-IP manages the investment portfolio of insurance clients.

Berkshire Hathaway Energy Co. engages in distribution of energy. It generates energy from coal, natural gas and steam, hydroelectric, wind, geothermal, nuclear, and black liquor resources. The firm also offers residential real estate brokerage; integrated real estate, including mortgage originations and mortgage banking; title and closing; property and casualty insurance; home warranties; relocation services; and other home-related services. The company was founded in 1971 and is headquartered in Des Moines, IA.

GEICO Corp. provides vehicle, property and business insurance services. The company was founded by Leo Goodwin and Lillian Goodwin in 1936 and is headquartered in Chevy Chase, MD.

Founded in 1994, Wyman Gordon Ltd. is a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway, Inc. that manufactures and supplies structural forgings and forged components from titanium and nickel based alloys. The private company is based in Hereford, UK.

Founded in 1998, SPS Chevron Ltd. is an investment holding British company that operates as a subsidiary of an undisclosed parent company. The private company is based in Leicester, UK.

Founded in 1954, Timet UK Ltd. is a nonferrous metal foundry that operates as a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway, Inc. The private company is based in Witton, UK.