John Acker

Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (Investment Management) (BBH-IM) is the investment management division of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co., a registered broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1931 and do-business-as Brown Brothers Harriman Mutual Fund Advisory Department. BBH-IM advises or sub-advises Mutual Funds, an ETF, and UCITS Funds.

Brown Investment Advisory & Trust Co. provides fund management services. It serves high net worth individuals and institutions. The firm manages accounts for individuals, investment companies, pension and profit sharing plans, pooled investment vehicles, charitable organizations, corporations, family office, executives, foundations, trust services and state or municipal government entities. The company was founded in 1993 and is headquartered Baltimore, MD.

CrossHill Financial Group, Inc. provides funds management and advisory services. It offers debt with warrants and advisory services to growth companies. The company was founded by Stephen X Graham in 1988 and is headquartered in Alexandria, VA.

KPMG LLP engages in the provision of audit, tax, and advisory services. It serves the banking and capital markets, building, construction and real estate, consumer and retail, energy, natural resources and chemicals, financial services, government and public sector, healthcare and life sciences, industrial manufacturing, insurance, media and entertainment, private equity, technology, telecommunications, and venture capital industries. The company was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Inc. provides healthcare services. The hospital is affiliated to the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. It offers inpatient and outpatient health services that include general medicine, emergency and trauma care, pediatrics, maternity, and senior care. The company was founded in 1889 and is headquartered in Baltimore, MD.

BB&T Securities LLC, doing business as BB&T Capital Markets, is the broker/dealer subsidiary of BB&T Corp. (NYSE: BBT). The firm is headquartered in Richmond, Virginia. They offer a full array of investment, trading and execution services to middle-market companies. BB&T Capital Markets' sales and trading arm is comprised of 2 groups: Debt Securities Sales & Trading and Equity Sales & Trading. The Debt Securities Sales & Trading group focuses on: (1) Government and agency securities (2) corporate bonds (3) municipal bonds (4) asset-backed securities (5) mortgage-backed securities (6) preferred securities and (7) money market desk (short-term securities including BB&T funding). The Equity Sales & Trading group focuses on: (1) institutional block execution services (2) institutional distribution of proprietary research (3) providing proprietary access to industry leading conferences and management teams (4) serving as a NASDAQ market maker for over 250 securities (5) stock buybacks including 10b-18 and 10b5-1 trading plans and (6) 144 stock sales, individual 10b5-1 trading plans (buy and sell) and employee cashless stock option programs. BB&T Capital Markets provides research coverage of the communications, defense and government services, energy, financial services, furnishings and consumer durables, healthcare, industrial services, retail/consumer durables and transportation services sectors.

NeuroVentures Capital LLC (NeuroVenture Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 1999 by Mark A. Cochran, Daniel J. O'Connell and Hans von Celsing. The firm is headquartered in Charlottesville, Virginia.

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

The American Marketing Association operates professional associations for marketers. The company offers services to marketing professionals including best practices and research studies, job resources, publications and directories. Its publications include flagship semi-monthly magazine Marketing News, as well as journal of marketing, journal of public policy and marketing and a variety of newsletters. The company was founded in 1931 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Navigant Capital Advisors LLC provides investment banking services. It offers fairness opinion, mergers and acquisition, private placement, due diligence, divestiture, leveraged recapitalization and refinancing, debt and equity underwriting and business turnaround advisory services. The company is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

V12 Group, Inc. provides digital marketing technology and data. It offers launchpad marketing cloud is a collection of online and offline marketing solutions designed to manage existing customer relationships and identify new customers by granting users access to the V12 group data cloud. The company also offers managed, data enhancement and data licensing services. V12 Group was founded by Paul C. Chachko in 2002 and is headquartered in Matawan, NJ.

Howard Bank, headquartered in Ellicott City, MD, is a growth-focused community bank serving businesses, professionals and individuals in the Greater Baltimore area through seven full service branches and regional offices in Annapolis and Towson, MD, and mortgage operations throughout the Central Maryland area.

Center Stage Associates, Inc. is a non-profit organization which owns and operates a classical and contemporary theater. It offers main stage, third space, special performances, and digital initiatives. The organization was founded in 1963 and is headquartered in Baltimore, MD.

F5 Sports, Inc. engages in the provision of a mobile application that enables baseball players at all levels to develop proper throwing mechanics faster and reduce the risk of injury. It offers pitchLogic. The company is headquartered in Winston-Salem, NC.

ASM Resources Inc (ASM Resources) is a venture capital subsidiary of American Society for Microbiology founded in 2000. The firm is headquartered in Washington, District of Columbia.

American Health Care Association provides healthcare services. The non-profit company is based in Washington. Mark Parkinson has been the CEO of the American company since 2011.

Cambridge Associates LLC is a privately-held, SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. The firm was founded in 1973 by James Bailey and Henry Lewis. Cambridge Associates provides investment management and advisory services to colleges and universities, foundations and other non-profit institutions. They also act as an investment adviser to private clients, family offices, corporations, healthcare institutions, insurance groups, pension plans and ERISA pools and public and government-related groups.

Innovate Capital Partners LLC (Innovate Capital Partner) is a venture capital firm founded in 2022. The firm is headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Brooks, Houghton & Co., Inc. engages in the provision of investment banking services. It offers services such as debt and equity private placements, mergers and acquisition advisory, valuation and fairness opinions, general corporate finance advisory, and principal investments in interim and bridge capital. The company was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

V12 Data provides digital marketing technology and data services. It offers online display ads, reactivation, email marketing, data enhancement, online business, automotive, linkage, and PYCO personality database services. The firm serves automotive, retail, entertainment, financial services and insurance industries. The company is headquartered In Tampa, FL.