April Pannell

Barings LLC is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina. Founded in 1940, the firm is direct subsidiary of MM Asset Management Holding LLC and their ultimate parent is Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co. (MassMutual). MassMutual?s affiliated companies include financial services companies that provide investment management services and individual protection insurance to clients worldwide. Barings provides a broad range of investment advisory and management services to institutional clients, registered investment companies, and other pooled investment vehicles.

Earth Networks, Inc. owns and operates weather observation, lightning detection, and greenhouse gas monitoring networks. It specializes in dangerous thunderstorm alerts, weather station, decision-support collaboration, cameras, outdoor alerts, mesonet, meteorology, and sferic mobile. The company was founded by Robert S. Marshall and Christopher D. Sloop in 1993 and is headquartered in Germantown, MD.

SuperPages Canada, Inc. provides online directory assistance services. It publishes TELUS telephone directories in Canada which produce nearly 93 business and residential phone books. The company is headquartered in Burnaby, Canada.

Young Presidents' Organization, Inc. is a global leadership community of over 30,000 chief executives from 142 countries. The non-profit company is based in Irving, TX and has a global presence of subsidiaries in several regions. The company's mission is to help its members become better leaders and better people. The company was founded in 1950 by Ray Hickok, Khalid Mohamed Jassem Kanoo. Thayer Smith has been the CEO of the company since 2007.

ZipLocal, Inc. is a development stage company. It operates through Canada geographical segments. The company was founded on August 22, 2005 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

InfoPáginas, Inc. operates as a holding company which provides marketing solutions. Its services include sales, advertisement, printing, publishing, and distribution of local white and yellow pages telephone directories. The firm also maintains an online portal for web-based searches, as well as mobile platform solutions which include maps and point-of-interest address look-ups. The company was founded by Oliver Vincent on January 28, 2009 and is headquartered in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico.

Sapa Profilés Puget SA manufactures and supplies aluminum profiles. The company is headquartered in Puget-sur-Argens, France.

Pure Freedom YYOGA Wellness, Inc. provides health and wellness services. Yoga Classes include power, Core power, yhot, yhot Core, flow, hatha, and warm yin. The company was founded by Terry McBride and Lara Kozan in 2007 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.

Creditloans Canada Financing, Inc. provides credit financial solutions. The firm offers market wired resonate, market wired influencers, news distribution, IR, PR hosted newsroom and media database products. The firm also provides public, investor relations and small business solutions. The company was founded by David Gens, Michael Jover and Ali Pourdad and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

Merchant Growth Ltd. engages in the provision of small business loans and credits. It offers business financing and lease to own services. It serves restaurants, bars and bistro, automotive services, salons and spa, and retail businesses. The company was founded by David Gens in 2010 and is headquartered in Vancouver, CA.

Electriq Power, Inc. is engaged in developing premier smart home battery storage solutions. It offers home installers, home builders and utilities solutions. The company was founded by Jim Lovewell and Chadwick Manning in 2014 and is headquartered in San Leandro, CA.

7 Gate Ventures is an independent venture capital firm founded in 2015. The firm is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada with an additional office in San Francisco, California.

Spliqs Intelligent Media, Inc. develops an application that allows users to create music. The CEO of the Canadian company is Jason Zerbin.

Pourdad Capital Partners (Pourdad Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 2017. The firm is headquartered in Nassau, The Bahamas.

FQ Support Services Ltd. is a Canadian company that provides software development, data science, financial administration, and marketing strategy services. The company is based in Toronto, Canada, and has subsidiaries in Bahamas. The company specializes in software development and security for financial services firms, using Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, and proprietary trading systems for iOS and Android development. The company's data scientists have experience in traditional and cryptocurrency financial markets, and they implement efficient analytics to accelerate time to insights using the latest AI technologies. Ali Pourdad has been the CEO of the company since 2021.