Brian Smith

Cream Wine Co. LLC is a wine company based in Chicago, IL. The private company offers a wide range of unique and energetic wines made from organic grapes farmed in and out of state. Cream Wine Co. invites the public to attend their wine seminars and tastings to learn about the past, present, and future of wine. The company also has a large sake portfolio and host events like Cream Sake Week and Rosé & Orange Wine Tasting.

Meritage Group LP (Meritage) is a SEC-registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in San Francisco, California. The firm was principally owned by the 1998 Simons Family Revocable Trust. They were formed in 2006 as a spin-off of Renaissance Technologies LLC. Meritage provides discretionary investment management services to private investment funds for which they serve as investment manager and/or investment general partner and not individually to the investors in the private investment funds.