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Shell Oil Co. manufactures petrochemicals and distributes gas and oil products. The company was founded in 1912 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

Carnegie Mellon University is an American school that operates as a college or university. It is located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

KeyBanc Capital Markets, Inc. is a registered investment bank and broker/dealer headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio. The firm was founded in 1983 and is a subsidiary of KeyCorp. (NYSE: KEY). KeyBanc Capital Markets provides investment banking, commercial lending, treasury management, derivatives, foreign exchange, equity and debt underwriting and trading and syndicated finance products and services to large corporations and middle-market companies.

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLC provides assurance, tax and advisory services. Its services include audit and assurance, consulting, deals, human resources, legal, tax, and family business. The firm also offers accountability, risk management, structuring, mergers and acquisitions, and performance and process improvement. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Buffalo, NY.

Part of Cincinnati Financial Corp., The Cincinnati Insurance Co., Inc. is a provider of insurance solutions for businesses and individuals through local independent agents. The company is based in Fairfield, OH. The company offers a wide range of products and services to meet various insurance needs.

CFC Investment Co. provides commercial financing services to independent insurance agents, commercial clients and other businesses. The company was founded in 1970 and is headquartered in Fairfield, OH.

Part of Cincinnati Financial Corp., The Cincinnati Casualty Co. is a property and casualty insurance company. The company is based in Fairfield, OH. Steven J. Johnston has been the CEO of the company since 2008.

Part of Cincinnati Financial Corp., The Cincinnati Indemnity Co. is a company that specializes in property and casualty insurance as well as health insurance. The company is based in Fairfield, OH.

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.

Global Factory, Inc. provides collaborative manufacturing execution systems. The firm's software gather, organize & analyze demand, production & quality data from various sources and monitor key indicators & execute business processes to control, manage & optimize distributed manufacturing operations. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Part of Cincinnati Financial Corp., The Cincinnati Life Insurance Co. is a life insurance company. The company is based in Fairfield, OH. Steven J. Johnston has been the CEO of the company since 2008.

The Cincinnati Specialty Underwriters Insurance Co. provides insurance underwriter services. The company is headquartered in Fairfield, OH.

Grant Thornton LLP provides accounting, tax and business consulting services. It offers advisory, business consulting, business risk, enterprise technology and innovation, transaction services, data analytics, cyber risk, and data integrity services. The firm serves the construction, real estate and hospitality, consumer and industrial products, energy, financial services, health care and life sciences, not for profit organizations, private equity, public sector, and technology industries. The company was founded in 1924 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Achievement Centers for Children operates as non-profit organization, which engages in the provision of education and autism services. It offers technical assistance program, achieve consulting, preschool language, speech and occupational therapy, family support, recreation and sports, and adult services. The company was founded in 1940 and is headquartered in Highland Hills, OH.

Northern Trust Investments, Inc. (Investment Management) (NTI-IM) is the asset management division of Northern Trust Investments, Inc., ultimately held by Northern Trust Corp. (NASDAQGS: NTRS), a multi-bank holding company that was established in 1889. The firm was founded in 1988 and headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. NTI-IM provides a wide range of discretionary and non-discretionary investment advisory and sub-advisory services to individual and institutional clients.

NextGen Growth Partners LLC (NextGen Growth Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 2016 by Brian O'Connor. The firm is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

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.

Rev1 Ventures (Rev1 Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2003. The firm is headquartered in Columbus, Ohio.

Grosvenor Capital Management LP (GCM) is a SEC-registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. The firm was founded by Michael Sacks in 1971 and is a subsidiary of Grosvenor Capital Management Holdings LLLP, itself a subsidiary of GCM Grosvenor, Inc. (NASDAQ: GCMG). GCM provides investment management and advisory services for private pooled investment vehicles, open- and closed-end registered investment companies, and institutional investors such as public or private pension plans or sovereign wealth funds.

Hippo Manager Software, Inc. develops computer software for cloud based veterinary practice. The company was founded by Sam Razor and Bart Conrad and is headquartered in Lexington, KY.

BMO Asset Management Corp. (BMO AM) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. The firm was founded in 2012 and is a wholly-owned subsidiary of BMO Financial Corp. (BMO), which is in turn a wholly-owned subsidiary of Bank of Montreal (TSX: BMO), a Canadian diversified financial services company. BMO AM provides discretionary investment advisory services for, or provides non-discretionary investment advice to, institutions, individuals, and third-party sponsors of and clients participating in wrap-fee programs, as well as common and collective portfolios for which BMO Harris Bank, an affiliate of BMO AM, acts as trustee. In addition, BMO AM provides investment advisory services to private pooled vehicles and to affiliates for the benefit of their clients.

RelaDyne, Inc. engages in the distribution of equipment reliability products and value added services, including reliability services, custom blending, and wireless tank monitoring. It serves the automotive, commercial, and industrial markets. The company was founded on November 4, 2010 and is headquartered in Cincinnati, OH.

Deloitte Consulting LLP provides business consulting services. It offers services related to public finance, public sector management, health and social protection, information technology, financial sector, and trade and investment. The company was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Brookfield Asset Management LLC provides financial and asset management services. The company was founded on December 23, 2005 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

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.

Founded in 2001, Quantitative Services Group LLC (QSG) is a research firm located in Naperville, Illinois. The firm is a subsidiary of Markit Group Holdings Ltd. They seek to leverage the latest technology, construction techniques and specialty data to provide institutional investors a variety of global stock selection models focused on outperformance. QSG's Value Momentum Model provides a balanced approach to stock selection within the U.S. market. This model favors stocks with strong earnings quality, good valuation, strong balance sheets, positive momentum, and good earnings growth. The Value Momentum Model's approach is best for investors seeking broad exposure to a variety of proven stock selection methods and a core approach portfolio construction. The model is applied across all market-caps, investment styles and asset classes. The firm's Relative Value Model includes themes of price multiples, profitability, earnings expectations, intrinsic value and financial strength. This model is designed to avoid value traps, augment sector-relative and industry-relative viewpoints and provide a consistent source of value. QSG's Price Momentum Model provides a powerful, consistent 1- to 3-month investment signal. This model leverages put and call options and trading volume information to reduce the inherent risk-seeking nature of momentum-based strategies. The firm's GARP Model identifies growth stocks with strong value characteristics. The model consists of a proprietary combination of long-term earnings growth and relative value signals. It employs first-order partial correlation to create a blend of sustainable earnings growth and current cheapness. This model is best for strategies targeting stocks that demonstrate high long-term growth potential and the sustainability to realize that potential. QSG's Deep Value Model is a proven approach to selecting undervalued stocks across the broad US market. The Deep Value Model is designed to select future out performers over the next 9 to 12 months. The firm's Deep Value Model uses free-cash-flow, dividend yield and asset turnover to identify stocks that are currently trading at a deep discount to their intrinsic value. The Deep Value model provides discriminatory power for both long-only and long-short strategies and compliments more short term-oriented momentum and growth strategies. QSG's Earnings Momentum Model uses a proprietary search algorithm to combine analyst forecasts with the company's past earnings strength, along with several indicators of future earnings potential. The Earnings Momentum model has consistently outperformed in both pre- and post- Regulation FD environments. Utilizing a unique k-clustering factor selection technique, QSG's Historical Growth Model selects stocks with an above-average track-record of earnings growth, strong sales growth and high sustainable growth. This blended approach enables the model to identify traditional growth stocks, as well as value stocks on the verge of growth.

Part of Shell Plc, Shell Trading Services Co. is a company that provides oil exploration services. The company is based in Syracuse, NY.

PFC Energy, Inc. provides advisory and consulting services to energy companies. The firm provides analysis and business solutions for the oil and gas industry, financial players and government organizations. The company was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in Washington, DC.