Lynette Zickl

Advent International LP (Advent) is an independent private equity firm founded in 1984 by Henry H. Haight. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

The Options Clearing Corp. provides equity derivatives clearing services. It provides central counterparty clearing and settlement services to stock exchanges and trading platforms for options, financial futures, security futures and securities lending transactions. The company was founded in 1973 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Ernst & Young LLP engages in the provision of accounting, assurance, tax, transaction, and advisory services. It specializes in the actuarial, analytics and big data, cyber security, accounting compliance and reporting, center for board matters, international financial reporting standards, country tax advisory, global trade, tax accounting, and climate change and sustainability. The company was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

DBRS, Inc. provides credit reporting agency services. The company is headquartered in New York, NY.

DBRS Ltd. operates as credit ratings agency. The firm provides tools that helps the investors in making investment decisions. It offers web subscriptions, DBRS Viewpoint, DBRS Product Manual, and RatingsNow. The company was founded by Walter Schroeder in 1976 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

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

CFA Institute operates as non-profit organization, which engages in the provision of chartered financial analyst programs. It offers certificate in investment performance measurement program, investment foundations, and scholarship. The company was founded in 1965 and is headquartered in Charlottesville, VA.

Precision Information LLC provides investment advice. Its products include financial fitness challenge, custom solutions and content. The firm also provides interactive financial education content, technology, and tools to companies and people. The company was founded in Joe Saari and Edward Harris and is headquartered in Chula Vista, CA.

Apex Clearing Corp. offers clearing and execution solutions to the financial services industry. It provides compliance, margin and financial solutions, portfolio financing and risk management. The company was founded by Peter Lawler in 2012 and is headquartered in Dallas, TX.

Apex Fintech Solutions, Inc. is an early stage and emerging growth company. The company is headquartered in Dallas, TX.

Part of Aztec Software LLC, Financial Fitness Group LLC is a leading provider of interactive financial wellness and investor education content for financial service providers, banks, credit unions, advisors, and government agencies. The company is based in San Diego, CA. Discover how their financial communications library can help attract new prospects and deepen client relationships with Andex Chart Sbbi and more. With 2 million users at 1,000+ organizations, FFG provides financial providers, employers, and government agencies with financial education solutions. Founded by Joe Saari, for over 20 years, FFG has assessed and educated over 4 million individuals at thousands of organizations to drive real behavior change. Financial Fitness Group was acquired by iGrad, Inc. on February 06, 2024.

Riskalyze, Inc. develops platform to capture a quantitative measurement of client risk tolerance for investment advisors. Its products include autopilot and compliance cloud. The company was founded by Matt Pistone, Aaron Klein, Michael McDaniel and Kathleen Callender in 2011 and is headquartered in Auburn, CA.

The Tifin Group LLC (Tifin Group) is a venture capital firm founded in 2018 by Vinay Nair. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Part of Morningstar, Inc., DBRS Ratings Ltd. is a credit rating agency. The company is based in London, UK. DBRS Ratings was founded in 2010.

Moody's Investors Service Ltd. is the Great Britain-based investment research subsidiary of Moody's Corp. (NYSE: MCO) in the US. The firm was founded in 1985 under the name Rapidcredit Ltd. Headquartered in London, Moody's Investors Service provides credit ratings, research, and risk analysis. Credit ratings and research help investors analyze the credit risks associated with fixed-income securities. Such independent credit ratings and research also contribute to efficiencies in fixed-income markets and other obligations, such as insurance policies and derivative transactions, by providing credible and independent assessments of credit risk.

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.

Moody's Deutschland GmbH is the Germany-based investment research subsidiary of Moody’s Corp. (NYSE: MCO) in the US. Headquartered in Frankfurt, the firm was founded in 1991 and provides credit ratings, research, risk analyzes and default data to German-speaking clients including banks, insurance companies, asset managers and industrial companies in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

YCharts, Inc. provides online stock and financial data information. The firm offers insights on company valuation, growth and profitability trends in areas, such as market capitalization, revenue, net income, cash on hand, free cash flow, earnings per share, revenue growth, price to earnings and dividend yield. It focuses on industries such as biotechnology, drug, networking and investment brokers. The company was founded by Shawn Carpenter and Ara Anjargolian, Brian Hand, Michael W. Ferro Jr., Jai Shekhawat and Barney Merrick Harford in January 2009 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Advanced Technology Group, Inc. provides complete training and full-service testing facility. It offers individual, group, government and bootcamp training; certification testing, and classroom rentals. The company was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in Atlanta, GA.

HelloWallet LLC provides online financial guidance services. The firm is an independent financial management and guidance website which helps its members to take control of finances. The company was founded by Matt Fellowes in 2009 and is headquartered in Washington, DC.

YWCA of Metropolitan Chicago engages in the social enterprise services. It aims to eliminate racism; empower women; and promote peace, justice, freedom, and dignity for all. It offers sexual violence and support; early childhood; and economic empowerment services. The company was founded on December 12, 1876 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Part of Goji Ltd., Goji Food Solutions Ltd. is a Bermudian company that focuses on research and development activities for their novel solid-state technology. The company is based in Hamilton, Bermuda. Goji Research, their R&D affiliate, pioneers RF solid-state cooking technology that enables healthier, tastier, faster, and simpler food preparation. The company was founded by Shlomo Ben-Haim.

First Midwest Bank operates as state chartered commercial bank. The firm provides the full range of both business and retail banking and trust and investment management services. The company is headquartered in Joliet, IL.

Chicago Finance Exchange offers professional and networking events on critically relevant members. Its community of women leaders in finance dedicated to exchanging ideas, experiences and expertise. The company was founded in 1980 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

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.

Fitch Ratings Ltd. (FRL) is an investment research firm headquartered in London, UK. The firm was founded in 1977 and is a subsidiary of Fitch Ratings, Inc., ultimately held by The Hearst Family Trust in the US. FRL provides research and specialized ratings of services to residential and commercial mortgages, asset managers and managed funds. They also publish quantitatively based ratings such as Q-IFS ratings.

Fitch Group, Inc. engages in the provision of credit ratings, opinions, research, and financial data for credit markets. It offers debt market solutions, corporate strategy and business planning, and custom research. The company was founded on December 13, 2005 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

S & P Global Ratings is a private company based in New York that provides independent credit ratings.

Centrifuge Systems, Inc. provides server-based and desktop information visualization software to the financial services, retail, pharmaceuticals, and government sectors. It offers data unification, BI visualizations, link analysis, and collaboration. The company was founded by Casey Henderson and is headquartered in McLean, VA.