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Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc. (DBSI) is a SEC-registered broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1971 and is a wholly-owned investment banking and brokerage arm of DB U.S. Financial Markets Holding Corp., ultimately held by Deutsche Bank AG (NYSE: DB, FRA: DBK) in Germany. DBSI provides securities brokerage and investment advisory services to domestic and international private clients and institutions. They are also a primary dealer in US government securities as designated by the Federal Reserve.

Davenport & Co. LLC (Davenport) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Richmond, Virginia. The firm was founded in 1863 and is a subsidiary of Davenport & Co. of Virginia, Inc. Davenport manages separate accounts for individuals, institutions, ERISA plans, trusts, estates, corporations, and other types of entities. They also serve as the Advisor to various mutual funds.

Ernst & Young LLP engages in the provision of accounting, assurance, tax, transaction, and advisory services. It specializes in the actuarial, analytics and big data, cyber security, accounting compliance and reporting, center for board matters, international financial reporting standards, country tax advisory, global trade, tax accounting, and climate change and sustainability. The company was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

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.

Ernst & Young provides accounting services. Its services include auditing, accounting, tax and transaction services, assurance and advisory business, online transaction advisory and a wide range of financial services. The company was founded by Arthur Young and Alwin C. Ernst in 1881 and is headquartered in Kansas City, MO.

Duke University is an academic university that offers undergraduate, graduate and professional programs. It also has publications and research services. The university was founded in 1838 and is headquartered in Durham, NC.

Founded in 2002 by Hunter Thompson and William Davis, Thompson Davis & Co. (TD & Co.) is an independent investment research firm and broker/dealer located in Richmond, Virginia with an additional office in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The firm is a member of FINRA and the SIPC. TD & Co. provides unbiased, original research and services to institutional and retail investors. They do not perform research on companies for investment banking opportunities. TD & Co. also offers a full-range of financial services ranging from financial planning and private money management to corporate and municipal bonds. TD & Co.'s research team employs a focused methodology. They seek to identified, under followed, undervalued growth companies. The firm uses computer screens that look for companies with sequential revenue and earnings growth and strong balance sheets that are selling at a discount to their growth rates. Specifically, TD& Co. looks for companies with several characteristics: (1) 20% + revenue and earnings growth (2) sequential revenue and earnings growth, i.e., quarter over quarter improvement in both the top and bottom line (3) top management is buying the company's stock in the open market with their own money (4) significant management ownership of the stock (5) strong balance sheets with little or no debt or manageable declining debt, strong cash position or debt reduction efforts (6) operating in a growing market sector (no deep cyclicals or natural resource sectors) (7) gross margin expansion and market share gains and (8) selling at a discount to the company growth rate, allowing for p/e expansion toward growth rate.

Greater Baltimore Medical Center provides health care services. It is a nearly 310 bed hospital which also operates the Hospice of Baltimore, the Hospice of Howard County, the Gilchrist Center for Hospice Care, plus various clinics and medical offices. Greater Baltimore Medical Center was founded in 1960 and is headquartered in Baltimore, MD.

PNC Capital Advisors LLC (PCA) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland. The firm is a wholly-owned direct subsidiary of PNC Bank, NA, which is wholly-owned by The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. (NYSE: PNC), a financial holding company. The firm was founded in 2009 from the business combination of PNC Capital Advisors, Inc. and Allegiant Asset Management Co. following the acquisition of National City Corp., the parent of Allegiant, by PNC. PCA provides taxable fixed income discretionary investment advisory services to institutional accounts.

Thompson, Siegel & Walmsley LLC (TSW) is a registered investment advisory firm headquartered in Richmond, Virginia. The firm was founded in 1969 and is a subsidiary of Pendal USA, Inc., which is owned by Perpetual Ltd. (ASX: PPT) in Australia. TSW provides investment advisory and management services to individual and institutional clients.

The London Company of Virginia LLC (The London Company) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Richmond, Virginia. The firm was originally founded in 1994 by Stephen Goddard. In its present state, the firm was formed in 2012 through a corporate reorganization in connection with a minority equity investment made in the firm by LPC London LP, an affiliate of Lincoln Peak Capital. They are a subsidiary of TLC Holdings LLC. The London Company provides discretionary portfolio management services to individuals and institutional investors through separately managed accounts, mutual funds and select channels.

Williams & Connolly LLP provides legal services, focusing on litigation areas such as corporate, tax, and employment law. Its practice areas includes administrative law, antitrust, appellate, arbitration, business transactions and tax, criminal defense, employment and labor laws, federal programs, and national defense. The company was founded Edward Bennett Williams in 1967, and is headquartered in Washington, DC.

Cornell University is an educational institution that offers undergraduate and post graduate programs. It was founded in 1865 and is based in Ithaca, NY.

Nelson/Nygaard Consulting Associates, Inc. provides transit and multimodal transportation planning services for small and large transit agencies. It offers transit planning, parking management, paratransit and mobility management, walking and bicycling, campus access, multimodal networks and traffic analysis. The company was founded by Diane Nygaard and Bonnie W. Nelson in 1987 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Valens Capital Management LLC provides investment management services.

iCoreConnect, Inc. engages in the development and marketing of cloud-based software and technology services which focus on compliance, workflow and productivity, and electronic health records systems. It offers cloud-based as a service under the names of iCoreRx, iCorePDMP, iCoreEPCS, iCoreVerify, iCoreHuddle, iCoreHuddle+, iCoreCodeGenius, iCoreExchange, iCoreCloud, iCorePay, iCoreSecure, and iCoreIT. The company was founded on November 2, 1992 and is headquartered in Ocoee, FL.