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Founded in 1976, Apax Partners, Inc. is a venture capital/private equity firm located in New York City. The firm is a subsidiary of London-based Apax Partners LLP

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.

Headquartered in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Newbridge Securities Corp. is a full-service securities brokerage and investment bank. They provide services to a broad based group of individuals and corporate clients. The core focus of their institutional research department is to identify companies with substantial, but realistic growth potential and whose shares are attractively valued. It is this attention to high-growth segments of the market that lead them to identify nanotechnology as an emerging trend that is spawning innovation in a range of industrial sectors. Newbridge is a member of the NASD and the SIPC. They are a subsidiary of Pershing LLC. Their ultimate parent is The Bank of New York Mellon Corp. (NYSE: BK).

Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Inc. develops and markets pharmaceutical products. Its medical products include xyrem, erwinaze, vyxeos, and kidrolas. The company was founded by Bruce C. Cozadd in 2003 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

Sotera Wireless Inc. develops medical devices. It develops, markets, and sells a vital signs monitoring solution. It offers ViSi Mobile System, a platform for vital signs monitoring solution that is designed to keep clinicians connected to their patients. The company was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Wallington Asset Management LLC is an independent wealth manager and registered investment advisor headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana. The firm was co-founded by Robert C. Klemkosky and Terence P. Weiss in 1988 to manage equity, balanced and fixed income portfolios for individuals, trusts and estates, foundations, endowments, corporations and retirement plans.

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.

Harvard University engages in the provision of teaching and research. It has twelve degree-granting Schools in addition to the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, offering a global education. The university was founded in 1636 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Needham & Co. LLC (Needham) is a registered investment advisor and broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1985 and is a wholly-owned indirect subsidiary of The Needham Group, Inc. Needham provides corporate and institutional clients with high quality research, corporate access, capital markets and trading execution services in both the public and private markets, with an emphasis on growth companies.

First Atlantic Capital Ltd. (First Atlantic Capital) is a private equity firm founded in 1989 by Roberto Buaron. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Overseas Partners, Inc. specializes in roller bearings and parts. The private company is based in Newtown, PA and has subsidiaries in the United States.

Dorsey, Wright & Associates LLC (DWA) is a registered investment advisor headquartered in Richmond, Virginia. The firm was founded in 1987 by Thomas Dorsey and Watson Wright. They are a subsidiary of Nasdaq, Inc. (NASDAQ: NDAQ). DWA provides personal and impersonal advisory services to individuals, banking institutions, pension and profit-sharing plans and other ERISA accounts, trusts, estates, and business entities.

Beecken Petty O'Keefe & Co LP (BPOC) is a private equity firm founded in 1996 by Dave Beecken, Bill Petty, and Ken O’Keefe. The firm is headquartered Chicago, Illinois.

Foresite Capital Management LLC (Foresite Capital) is a private equity firm founded in 2010 by James Tananbaum. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco.

Catapult Capital Management LLC (Catapult Capital) is a hedge fund manager headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 2006 and is a subsidiary of Millennium International Management LP, ultimately owned by MLM Trust B. Catapult Capital manages assets on behalf of institutional clients and private investors.

Millennium Management LLC is a SEC-investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded by Israel 'Izzy' Englander in 1989 and is a subsidiary of MLM Trust B LLC, itself a subsidiary of MLM Trust B. Millennium Management provides discretionary investment advisory services to private investment funds.

PerfectServe, Inc. provides communications and collaboration platform for the healthcare industries. Its platform helps health care providers to manage interactions with physicians, hospitals, and patients from their computers or mobile phones. The company was founded by Terrell L. Edwards in 1997 and is headquartered in Knoxville, TN.

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

Cedar Recovery of Middle Tennessee LLC provides health care services. The company was founded by Joseph R. Bond in 2015 and is headquartered in Mt. Juliet, TN.