Robert Long

Wells Fargo Advisors Financial Network LLC (WFAFN) is a registered investment adviser and broker-dealer headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri. Founded in 2001, the firm is a subsidiary of Wachovia Securities Financial Holdings LLC and is a non-bank affiliate of Wells Fargo & Co. (NYSE: WFC), a financial holding company and bank holding company created in 1852. WFAFN provides advisory services to individuals, pension or profit-sharing plans, trusts, estates or charitable organizations, corporations or other business entities, governmental entities and educational institutions, as well as banks or thrift institutions. The firm also sponsor a number of wrap fee advisory programs.

CardioNXT, Inc., manufactures and distributes medical equipment that enables understanding of cardiac arrhythmias such as atrial fibrillation, and deliver targeted therapy to affected areas within the heart. The company was founded by Jerome R. Edwards in 2012 and is headquartered in Westminster, CO.

Reason To Believe LLC, also known as Virtue Labs, is a haircare company that manufactures and markets innovative, technology-based solutions for hair health. The company is based in Raleigh, NC, with a technology manufacturing facility elsewhere. The company's proprietary ingredient, alpha keratin 60ku®, is the only fully functional, human-identical keratin protein on the market today, found in each of the company's Virtue® haircare products. Virtue Labs offers a range of haircare products, including shampoos, conditioners, and hair treatments that heal, nourish, and repair damaged hair. The company also offers styling products that hold, protect, and sculpt hair to achieve the perfect styled look. The company was founded by Melisse Shaban, and Jose Luis Palacios has been the CEO of the company since 2023.

Blue Current, Inc. is a company that specializes in manufacturing 100% dry, safe, and high-performance silicon elastic composite solid-state batteries for electric vehicles, grid storage, and consumer electronics. Blue Current is based in Hayward, CA. The company leads with science and data and is scaling up in the next wave of battery innovation. The company was founded by Nitash Balsara and Joseph M. DeSimone, and Ben Eiref has been the CEO of the company since 2022.

Advanced Chemotherapy Technologies, Inc. develops a novel device for infusing chemotherapies directly into poorly-vascularized pancreatic tumors. The company was founded by Joseph DeSimone and Jen Jen Yeh and is headquartered in Raleigh, NC.