Joseph Wald

Knight Capital Group, Inc. is a global financial services firm, which provides access to the capital markets across multiple asset classes to a broad network of clients, including buy and sell side firms, dealers, brokers, institutions, and corporations. It operates business through four segments: Market Making, Institutional Sales and Trading, Electronic Execution Services and Corporate and Other. The Market Making segment consists of market making in global equities and listed domestic options. It includes client, and to a lesser extent, non-client electronic market making activities in which they operate as a market maker in equity securities. The Institutional Sales and Trading segment includes global equity, exchange traded funds and fixed income sales and trading; reverse mortgage origination and securitization; capital markets; and asset management activities. Its business consists of execution and facilitation equities and fixed income transactions as agent on behalf of institutional clients, and they commit capital on behalf of its clients when needed. The Electronic Execution Services segment offers access via its electronic agency-based platforms to markets and self-directed trading in equities, equity options, fixed income, foreign exchange and futures contracts. The Corporate and Other segment invests in strategic financial services-oriented opportunities, allocates, deploys and monitors all capital, and maintains corporate overhead expenses and all other income and expenses that are not attributable to the other segments. The company was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in Jersey City, NJ.

GAIN Capital Holdings, Inc. engages in the provision of online trading services and solutions, specializing in over-the-counter and exchange-traded markets. It operates through the following segments: Retail and Futures. The Retail segment provides its retail customers around the world with access to range global financial markets, including spot foreign exchange, precious metals trading, and contracts for difference. The Futures segment includes exchange-traded futures and options on futures on various global exchanges. This segment offers futures services through its subsidiary, GAIN Capital Group, LLC, under the GAIN Capital Futures brand. The company was founded by Mark E. Galant in October 1999 and is headquartered in Bedminster, NJ.

OptionsCity Software, Inc. provides electronic trading and analytics software to the options and futures industry. Its products include Metro, City Store, Freeway, CityTrader, City API and City Execution. The firm's solutions include professional trading, market making, risk management, algorithmic trading, hosting services and exchange connectivity. The company was founded by Hazem Dawani, Rudy Fasouliotis, and Victor Glava in October 2006 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

BMO Capital Markets Corp. (BMOCMC) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1817 and is a direct, wholly-owned subsidiary of BMO Financial Corp., which is wholly-owned by Bank of Montreal (TSE: BMO, NYSE: BMO), a Canadian chartered bank. BMOCMC provides investment advisory and portfolio management services to institutional clients only.

Giant Oak, Inc. develops products that analyze large datasets to advance security goals on various issues that include financial threat and insurgency. It offers giant oak search technology, a negative media search tool that allows analysts and investigators to perform negative media searches to identify the right customers. The company was founded by Gary M. Shiffman and is headquartered in Arlington, VA.

SenaHill Investment Group LLC (SenaHill Investment) is a Venture Capital subsidiary of SenaHill Partners LP founded in 2013. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Clearpool Group, Inc. engages in the provision of electronic trading solutions. The company also offers independent agency broker-dealer execution services. It specializes in the algorithmic management system, venue analysis, and Clearpool execution services. The company was founded by Joseph Wald, Brian Schaeffer, and Ray Ross in 2014 and is headquartered in New York, NY.