William W. Morton

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.

W.L. Ross & Co. LLC (WL Ross & Co) is a private equity subsidiary of Invesco Ltd. founded in 2000 by Wilbur Louis Ross. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Sycamore Management Corp. (dba Sycamore Ventures) is an independent asset management firm headquartered in Princeton, New Jersey. The firm was founded in 1995 by Joseph Cho and Peter Gerry. Sycamore Ventures manages investment portfolios for individual and institutional clients.

Based in New YorK City, Citicorp Venture Capital Ltd. (CVC) is the private investment unit of Citigroup, Inc. (NYSE: C)

Quadriga Capital Russia is a Private Equity firm, a subsidiary of Quadriga Capital Russia Beteiligungs & Verwaltungs GmbH founded in 1995. Quadriga Capital Russia is headquartered in St. Petersburg.

Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC (GS&Co.) is a securities brokerage firm headquartered in New York City. Founded in 1927, the firm is a subsidiary of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE: GS). GS&Co. provides services to help hedge funds manage risk, monitor portfolios, maintain liquidity and build their businesses. They offer clients access to global equity and derivatives markets, as well as foreign exchange, commodities, European Lefts, rates and credit across the Americas, Europe and Asia. The firm proactively monitors capital markets, searching for pockets of liquidity and news that may require changes to those strategies. Integration with the Goldman Sachs network gives clients access to the firm's sectored block trades and their insights into price discovery. Their electronic trading program provides clients with tools to manage their trades from pre-trade analytics to post-trade analysis.

Phononic, Inc. develops thermoelectric materials and devices. The firm devices are used for cooling, refrigeration and energy harvesting applications. The company was founded by Anthony Richard Atti, Matthew Trevithick and Patrick J. McCann in September 2008 and is headquartered in Durham, NC.