Heidi Piper

Northgate Capital LP (Northgate Capital) is a venture capital and private equity firm founded in 2000 by Thomas Arthur Vardell and Brent Michael Jones. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

57 Stars LLC (57 Stars) is a private equity and venture Capital firm founded in 2005 by Stephen H. O'Neill, Gene Vincent Pohren and Steve A. Cowan. The firm is headquartered in Washington, District of Columbia.

MetLife Investment Management LLC (MIM) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Whippany, New Jersey. The firm was founded in 2006 and formerly known as MetLife Investment Advisors Co. LLC. They are a subsidiary of MetLife Investment Management Holdings LLC, which is owned by MetLife, Inc. (NYSE: MET). MIM provides advisory services to institutional clients, pension and profit-sharing plans (which include government plans), sovereign funds, limited partnerships, and MetLife affiliated accounts such as MetLife’s domestic insurance company subsidiaries, registered investment companies, and pooled investment vehicles.

Founded in 2000, IMC Chicago LLC is a proprietary trading and broker/dealer located in Chicago, Illinois. The firm is active in the North American markets as a wholly-owned subsidiary of International Marketmakers Combination BV (IMC) of Amsterdam, one of the largest derivatives trading houses in Europe. Their traders actively trade on the CBOE, PHLX, CME, the NYSE Arca and the ISE, all through screen-based trading. IMC Chicago is active in indices, equity options, cash futures and quantitative trading strategies. The firm provides an array of trading an execution services for their clients. They do not provide any internal research.

TJC LP (TJC) is a private equity firm founded in 1982 by Jay W. Jordan and David W. Zalaznick. The firm is headquartered in New York.

The Teacher Retirement System of Texas (TRS) is a state-owned pension fund manager headquartered in Austin, Texas. The firm was founded by the Texas Legislature in 1937 to provide service and disability retirement benefits to teachers and administrators of the public school systems of Texas, which include institutions of higher education. In 1949, legislation expanded membership eligibility to include all employees of public education institutions. In 1985, TRS was assigned responsibility to administer health insurance program for public school retirees. The firm invests funds under its stewardship and delivers benefits to members as authorized by the Texas Legislature.