Stephan Brauer

Cormark Securities Inc. (Cormark) is an independent investment dealer headquartered in Toronto, Canada with additional office in Calgary. The firm was founded in 1981 as Sprott Securities, Inc. Cormark Securities provides execution and comprehensive coverage of Canadian listed companies to domestic and international institutional investors. They focus on Canadian-listed, mid-cap and emerging growth companies.

Merrill Lynch Canada, Inc. is a Canadian broker/dealer headquartered in Toronto, Ontario. They are a subsidiary of Midland Walwyn, Inc. and their ultimate parent is Bank of America Corp. (NYSE: BAC). The firm offers brokerage and investment banking services as well as commercial lending, global high-yield debt, global equity, and M&A services to institutional and retail clients.

Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC is a registered broker-dealer subsidiary of Morgan Stanley Domestic Holdings, Inc., ultimately owned by Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) in the US. Headquartered in New York City, the firm was founded in 1987 and provides debt and equity services including underwriting, M&A advice, securities dealing and brokerage and trade execution. Their client base ranges from large global institutional investors to hedge funds at the cutting edge of innovation in the industry.

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.

Scotia Capital, Inc. (Broker) (Scotia Capital-Broker) is the broker-dealer division of Scotia Capital, Inc., a full-service financial services firm headquartered in Toronto, Canada. The firm is owned by The Bank of Nova Scotia (NYSE, TSE: BNS). Scotia Capital-Broker delivers a broad range of electronic trading products such as high-touch, low-latency, market access and a broad algorithmic trading suite for a wide range of clients globally. They publish monthly indexes to help investors track the performance of Canadian Hedge Funds and Alternative Mutual Funds.

TD Securities, Inc. is a Canadian broker/dealer headquartered in Toronto, Ontario. The firm is a subsidiary of The Toronto-Dominion Bank (NYSE, TSE: TD). TD Securities provides a wide range of capital market products and services to corporate, government and institutional clients. Their services also include the underwriting and distribution of new debt and equity issues, providing advice on strategic acquisitions and divestitures and executing daily trading and investment needs. The firm’s equity group provides research coverage of various sectors. Their fixed-income group provides a full range of underwriting sales and trading products for Canadian, US and European debt issuers and investors.

Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc. engages in the provision of management and technology consulting services. Its services include consulting, analytics, digital solutions, engineering, cyber security, and product. The company was founded by Edwin G. Booz in 1914 and is headquartered in McLean, VA.

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP provides legal advisory services. Its areas of practice include mergers and acquisitions, alternative dispute resolution, aviation, communications, competition, construction, and e-commerce law. The firm offers legal advisory services in areas such as pension and employee benefits, products liability, restructuring and insolvency, sports, taxation, structured finance, outsourcing, and securities law. The company was founded in 1856 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

McCarthy Tetrault LLP provides legal services. Its services include integrated business law, litigation services, taxation, real property, and labour and employment law. The company was founded in 1855 and is headquartered in Montreal, Canada.

Webraska is one of the leading providers of mobile GPS navigation solutions and high-end geospatial software platforms for wireless carriers, Internet portals and large service providers worldwide. Webraska focuses on three main product lines: Webraska Navigation, a satellite navigation GPS software for mobiles phones that provides real time traffic optimized routing, safety camera alerts, crystal clear voice instructions and easy to read colour maps showing street names and intersections, guiding drivers safely and on time to their destination. Webraska Navigation is compatible with smartphones and PDA phones running Java, BlackBerry, Linux, Symbian and Microsoft Windows Mobile operating systems. SmartZone Geospatial Platform (SGP), a carrier grade, high performance, fully redundant platform that provides geocoding, reverse geocoding, mapping, routing and local search functionality. SGP is available in ASP and hosted mode. Webraska Inuk, a platform designed to allow location-based service operators to support user-created dynamic content. Webraska Inuk is a powerful and flexible platform enabling service operators, content providers, business users and end-users to dynamically integrate, location-enable, manage, update, and distribute large data bases of content-rich data.

Innovate BC develops entrepreneurial talent and supports commercializing technology. The firm focuses on competitively positioning British Columbia in today's global knowledge economy in order to provide significant employment opportunities and a high standard of living for British Columbians. The company was founded in 1978 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.

New York State Bar Association is a non-profit organization, which provides legal services and offers a membership program for lawyers. It also publishes an array of books, bar journals, law digest, and State Bar news. The company was founded in 1876 and is headquartered in Alban, NY.

The Law Society of Upper Canada engages in the provision of legal services. The company was founded in 1797 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

The Canadian Bar Association operates as a professional organization. The non-profit company is based in Ottawa, Canada. and has subsidiaries in Canada.

North York General Hospital owns and operates community academic hospitals. The firm offers diagnostic imaging, emergency care, family and community medicine, long-term care, mental health services, and support and professional services. The company was founded in 1968 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

Ordre des Ingénieurs du Québec operates as a self-regulatory body that governs Quebec's professional engineers. The firm specifically admits and supports its members, monitors and improves engineering practice and implements a disciplinary framework. It also conducts specific activities to promote prevention, raise the profile of the profession, improve and maintain competencies and ensure that engineers fulfill their ethical and professional obligations in their professional practice. The company was founded in February 14, 1920 and is headquartered in Montréal, Canada.

Infrastructure Ontario is a Canadian company that supports the government in modernizing and maximizing the value of public infrastructure and real estate, managing government facilities, and financing the renewal of the province's public infrastructure. The company is based in Toronto, Canada. The company is ultimately controlled by the Province of Ontario. Michael Lindsay has been the CEO of the company since 2020.

ITWorx Corp. operates as a Information Technology Services firm providing cloud based and on premise solutions. Its services include big data, integrated support services, business intelligence, user experience, portals, quality, security, outsourcing, customer relationship management and social media management. The firm serves governments, financial services firms, institutions, telecommunication operators, and media companies in North America, Europe, and the Middle East continents. The company was founded by Ahmed Badr, Wael Amin and Youssri Helmy in 1994 and is headquartered in Nasr, Egypt.

Wadi Holdings SAE provides poultry and agricultural support services. It comprises numerous agri-business companies delivering products to consumers and business companies. The group's earlier startups have taken place years ago, namely in Lebanon, Syria, KSA, and Jordan. The company was founded in 1984 by Musa Suleiman Freiji and is headquartered in Giza, Egypt.

Pacad Investment Ltd. is an SEC-registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager located in Vancouver, British Columbia.

The Investment Management Corp. of Ontario (IMCO) is an independent investment firm headquartered in Toronto, Canada. IMCO was founded in 2016 to provide comprehensive and value-added investment management and advisory solutions to public-sector clients in Ontario.