John C. Burns

Schering Plough Corp. manufactures and sells pharmaceuticals, consumer and animal health care products. The firm discovers, develops, manufactures and markets advanced drug therapies. The company is headquartered in Kenilworth, NJ.

Teachers Insurance & Annuity Association of America-College provides financial products and services. It offers retirement plans, mutual funds, annuities, life insurance, brokerage and trading services, managed accounts and education savings. The company was founded by Andrew Carnegie in 1918 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Part of BlackRock, Inc., Merrill Lynch Investment Managers LP is a private company that provides investment advisory services. The company is based in Plainsboro, NJ.

Apollo Asset Management, Inc.engages in the provision of alternative investment management services. It operates through the following segments: Credit, Private Equity, and Real Assets. The Credit segment focuses on the investment in non-control corporate and structured debt instruments including performing, stressed, and distressed instruments across the capital structure. The Private Equity segment consists of investment in control equity and related debt instruments, convertible securities, and distressed debt instruments. The Real Assets segment includes investment in real estate equity and infrastructure equity; and real estate and infrastructure debt. The company was founded by Marc Jeffrey Rowan, Leon David Black, and Joshua Jordan Harris in 1990 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Sysomos, Inc. provides social media analytics to corporations, marketers, public relations agencies, and advertisers. It also offers research and analytics, listen and monitor, social media reports, and image monitoring solutions. The company was founded by Nick Koudas and Nilesh Bansal in September 2007 and is headquartered in Toronto, CA.

The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales ensures that its members, students, and affiliates maintain the highest standards of professional competency and conduct to protect the public interest. The non-profit company is based in London, UK, and has subsidiaries in the United Kingdom. With over 150,000 members, the institute provides technical information, helplines, and communities to its members.

Sysomos Canada GP Holding Ltd. provides news and multimedia services. It specializes in distributing full-text and social media news releases, announcements and multimedia content worldwide. The company is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

Part of Schneider Electric SE, FM Holdings, Inc. is a company that specializes in paperboard products. The company is based in Wayne, NJ. FM Holdings was acquired by BTR Nylex Ltd on February 22, 1995.

Amneal Intermediate, Inc. is a pharmaceutical company, which engages in the development, manufacture, market and distribution of generic pharmaceutical products. It operates through the Generic, Specialty and AvKARE Segments. The Generics segment develops, manufactures and commercializes complex oral solids, injectables, ophthalmics, liquids, topicals, softgels, inhalation products and transdermals. The Specialty segment provides proprietary medicines to the U.S. market. The AvKARE segment focuses on pharmaceuticals, medical and surgical products, and services primarily to governmental agencies. The company was founded by Chintu Patel and Chirag Patel in 2002 and is headquartered in Bridgewater, NJ.

TIAA-CREF Life Insurance Co. provides insurance services. The firm offers retirement plans, IRAs, mutual funds, retirement annuities, brokerage & trading, 529 education savings, managed investment accounts and TIAA personal portfolio. The company was founded on March 04, 1918 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

TIAA-CREF Fund Complex is an investment portfolio company. It offers retail, retirement, premier and Institutional policies. The company is headquartered in New York, NY.

Alcresta Therapeutics, Inc. engages in the development of enzyme-based products designed to address challenges faced by people living with gastrointestinal disorders and rare diseases. It offers products designed to improve the delivery, digestion, and absorption of long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids or LCPUFAs. The company was founded by Robert Gallotto and Dr. Alexey L. Margolin in 2011 and is headquartered in Newton, MA.

Kadmon Corp. LLC manufactures and distributes pharmaceutical products. It currently offers products and services for the treatment and management of hepatitis C, is pioneering medicines in oncology, infectious diseases, and immunology and neurodegenerative diseases by using new understandings in molecular biology to develop therapies that target the metabolomic and signaling pathways associated with disease. The company was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Marketcore, Inc. develops online financial solutions. It develops risk assessment framework and tools which improves risk matching, price transparency and market liquidity in insurance, reinsurance, credit, and credit related markets. The company was founded by Michael Erlanger, Constance Erlanger and Clinton J. Kendrick in 2000 and is headquartered in Greenwich, CT.

Young Presidents' Organization, Inc. is a global leadership community of over 30,000 chief executives from 142 countries. The non-profit company is based in Irving, TX and has a global presence of subsidiaries in several regions. The company's mission is to help its members become better leaders and better people. The company was founded in 1950 by Ray Hickok, Khalid Mohamed Jassem Kanoo. Thayer Smith has been the CEO of the company since 2007.