Brian Nichols Jackson

Ironwood Investment Counsel LLC (IIC) is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor and wealth management firm headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona. The firm was founded by Paul W. Alston and Jeffrey E. Shiffra in 2001. IIC provides investment advisory services to individuals, families, foundations, trusts and retirement plans.

Arizona Bank & Trust operates as a state chartered commercial bank. Its services include banking, borrowing, investment services, wealth advisory services, insurance, ebanking, treasury management, and retirement plan services. The company is headquartered in Phoenix, AZ.

The Vanguard Group, Inc. (VGI) is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor and mutual fund manager headquartered in Malvern, Pennsylvania. The firm was founded in 1975 by John Bogle. In 1976, they introduced the first indexed mutual fund, the First Index Investment Trust (now known as the Vanguard 500 Index Fund), to individual investors. VGI provides investment advisory services to Vanguard family of funds and Vanguard's non-US clients, which are comprised of funds established as trusts under the laws of the Province of Ontario in Canada and separate account clients of Vanguard's international subsidiaries.