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Coldstream Capital Management, Inc. (CCM) is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor and wealth management firm headquartered in Bellevue, Washington. The firm was founded by Roger Reynolds in 1996. CCM provides comprehensive wealth management services to affluent individuals and their families, corporate executives, business owners, multi-generational family wealth, professional athletes, private foundations, corporate pension and profit-sharing (ERISA) plans, public sector defined contribution plans, and endowments and not-for-profit organizations.

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.

PAAMCO Prisma LLC is a SEC-registered investment advisor and fund of hedge funds manager headquartered in Newport Beach, California. The firm was founded in 2000 as Pacific Alternative Asset Management Co. LLC. They are a wholly-owned subsidiary of PAAMCO Prisma Holdings LLC, a holding company owned by Pholdings LLC. PAAMCO Prisma provides investment management and advisory services to clients that are generally organized as Funds and to separately managed accounts established for institutional investors. With limited exception, interests in client vehicles are generally only available to institutional investors and certain high net-worth investors.

Glacier Peak Capital LLC (Glacier Peak) is a hedge fund manager headquartered in Bellevue, Washington. The firm was founded by John Rudolf in 2012 and is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Fortis Holdings LLC. Glacier Peak serves as the General Partner to select private funds that are only available to accredited investors and qualified clients.

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.

McKinsey & Co., Inc. provides management consulting services. It specializes in design, marketing and sales, analytics, operations, transformation and restructuring, risk, strategy and corporate finance, and sustainability and resource productivity. The company was founded by James O. McKinsey in 1926 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

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.

New Mountain Capital LLC (New Mountain Capital) is a private equity firm founded in 1999 by Steven Klinsky. The firm is headquartered in New York.

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.

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.

Pioneer Fund/NY/ is a venture capital firm founded by Jason Gray. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Business Training Library, Inc. provides online employee training and eLearning solutions. It offers learning management including classroom and virtual classroom, custom content management, reporting and analytics; and social learning includes user generates content, collaboration, knowledge management and peer recognition technology. The company provides implementation support, technical support and professional services. Business Training Library was founded by Dean Pichee in 1996 and is headquartered in Chesterfield, MO.

Gibney, Anthony & Flaherty, LLP provides legal services. Its practice areas include immigration, labor and employment, real estate, antitrust and intellectual property law. The company was founded in 1939 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Encompass Northwest is a non-profit organization, which provides education and pediatric therapy programs to typically-developing children and those with delays and/or disabilities. It offers early learning, parent education, parent-child interaction therapy, and family enrichment programs. The company was founded in 1966 and is headquartered in North Bend, WA.

The Community Foundation, Inc. operates as a community foundation that provides stewardship services for endowments. The firm works with donors and partner organizations to address needs through grant making, leadership and community development programs. It administers charitable grant-making funds established by individuals and corporations for the purpose of benefiting non-profit community organizations. The company was founded in 1968 and is headquartered in Richmond, VA.

Language Computer Corp. develops natural language processing technologies. The firm’s products include text annotation, content management, custom information extraction, question answering and knowledge acquisition. Its services include custom software development, domain customization, software integration, language porting, lexicon and extractor creation, software localization, corpus generation, contracted research and software consulting. The company was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in Richardson, TX.

Lymba Corp. provides semantic software products. It is engaged in the provision of enterprise solutions for knowledge discovery, organization, and use. The firm offers software solutions based on natural language processing that enable its clients to transform unstructured data collections into actionable knowledge. The company was founded by Dan Moldovan in 2005 and is headquartered in Richardson, TX.

The Humane Society for Seattle/King County engages in promoting human-animal bond by saving and serving pets. The company was founded in 1897 and is headquartered in Bellevue, WA.

The Geological Society of America, Inc. engages as a non-profit organization. It helps in the advancement of geosciences. The company was founded in 1888 and is headquartered in Boulder, CO.

American Geophysical Union (AGU) is an international nonprofit scientific association with 60,000 members in 137 countries. The private company is based in Washington and welcomes visitors to the first net-zero renovated building in DC, which includes a state-of-the-art conference center. AGU promotes discovery in earth and space science for the benefit of humanity by providing career and educational resources, webinars, mentoring services, and support for students and professionals at all levels in earth and space science. AGU publishes award-winning books in topics of relevance to scientists in academia, government, and industry, as well as the larger earth and space science community. AGU also has a variety of honors that recognize individuals who have made outstanding contributions to earth and space science through scientific research, education, science communication, and outreach.