Joanne Taylor

PAGF GP LLC (PAGF GP) is a private equity firm founded in 2005 by Rodrigo Amare, Guido Caranti, and Richard Vaughan. The firm is headquartered in Houston, Texas.

Southern Methodist University is a private university near the center of Dallas, SMU offers undergraduate, graduate, and professional programs through seven schools in the humanities and sciences, business, the performing, visual, and communication arts, engineering, education and human development, law, and theology.

Emergent Payments, Inc. provides online payment services. The company was founded by Brent de Jong, Mitchell Davis and Andrew Schneider in 2007 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Cockrell Interests LLC (Cockrell Interests) is a private equity and venture capital firm founded in 1997. The firm is headquartered in Houston, Texas.

Chief Executives Organization, Inc. operates as a membership organization for charity. The CEO of the American company is Sheldon Elman.

CIBC Private Wealth Advisors, Inc. (CPWA) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. The firm was founded in 1932 and formerly known as AT Investment Advisers, Inc. They are a subsidiary of CIBC Private Wealth Group LLC, ultimately held by Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (NYSE, TSE: CM) in Canada. CPWA provides investment advisory and wealth advisory services to individuals, trusts, estates, families, charitable organizations, employee benefit and contribution plans, corporations, state or municipal government entities, pension and profit-sharing plans, and other investment advisers. The firm also participates in wrap fee programs offered by third party sponsors.

University of Houston System offers higher education degrees and job training or vocational study programs. It offers about 280 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in fields such as business, education, humanities and law. It was founded in 1927 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.