Ken Bramlage

The American Institute of Baking is a non-profit organization which provides education and research services for bakers and food processors. It offers baking applications, foundations, and specializations; food defense, building and equipment design, GMP and sanitation training, distance learning, online training, and food labeling training. The organization was founded in 1919 and is headquartered in Manhattan, KS.

Tectonic Holdings LLC provides banking and financial services. The company is headquartered in Plano, TX.

Cain, Watters & Associates LLC is a private company that has been helping dentists across the United States achieve their financial goals since 1984. The company is based in Dallas, TX and was founded by Darrell Ward Cain. The company's mission is to make sure that the work of dentists matters.

The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants provides vocational education in accounting. The company provides services to the accounting community, regulatory bodies, and other organizations. It also operates in Jersey City, Washington, and Lewisville. It was founded in 1887 and is headquartered in New York City, NY.

Salient Partners LP (Salient) is an asset management boutique headquartered in Houston, Texas. The firm was founded in 2002 by Andrew Linbeck, Jeremy Radcliffe and Haag Sherman. In 2003, the firm merged with Pinnacle Management & Trust Co. to form Salient Partners & Pinnacle Trust Co. Two years later the firm adopted the name Salient Partners LP. In 2022, they were acquired by Westwood Holdings Group, Inc. (NYSE: WHG). Salient provides real assets, tactical equity alternatives, and private solutions for institutional investors and investment advisors.

Sanders Morris Harris LLC (SMH) is an SEC-registered broker-dealer and member FINRA, SIPC, located in Houston, Texas. The firm is also an SEC-registered investment advisor. SMH was formed in January 2000 as the result of a merger between Sanders Morris Mundy, Inc. and Harris Webb & Garrison, Inc. The firm is now wholly-owned by Summer Wealth Management LLC. The ultimate principal owners of Summer Wealth Management, LLC are Lee Equity Partners LLC and The Edelman Financial Center, Inc. through intermediaries. SMH provides provides brokerage, asset management and similar services to individuals, high net-worth individuals, pension and profit sharing plans, trusts, estates, and corporations and other business entities.

Digitas, Inc. provides digital and interactive marketing services to the Internet-based and e-commerce companies. The company also provides cross-channel communications to clients. Its services include customer acquisition, cross-sell, loyalty, affinity and customer care operations. The company was founded by Robert L. Cosinuk in 1999 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Kornitzer Capital Management Inc. (KCM) is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Shawnee Mission, Kansas. The firm was founded by John Kornitzer in 1989. KCM provides advice as an investment adviser or as a sub-adviser to individuals and institutions and act as the investment adviser to the Buffalo Funds.

MGPI Processing, Inc. produces ingredients and distillery products. It develops and produces grain-based starches, proteins and food-grade alcohol products for the branded packaged goods industry. The company was founded by Late Cloud L. Cray in 1941 and is headquartered in Atchison, KS.

AACC International is a non-profit organization of members who are specialists in the use of cereal grains in foods. The Association was previously known as the American Association of Cereal Chemists (AACC). They publish Cereal Chemistry and Cereal Foods World as well as books on grain and food science. In addition to many other opportunities for professional growth, the association holds an annual meeting with exhibition, provides short courses taught by well-known experts in the field, and offers the online library of industry netcasts, the Cereal Science Knowledge Database. AACC International also offers international check sample and proficiency testing service, analytical sanitation certification as well as regional sections and subject matter divisions. The company was founded in 1915 and is headquartered in St. Paul, MN.

The Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) is a scientific community that has been in existence since 1939. The non-profit company is based in Chicago, IL. The organization aims to inspire and transform collective scientific knowledge into innovative solutions for the benefit of all people around the world. The science of food encompasses food science, food technologies, and their applications across the food industry. IFT envisions a world where diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) are universally valued as essential to advancing the science of food. The organization has member resource groups that provide supportive spaces for communities who have traditionally been underrepresented and under-supported. Christie A. Tarantino has been the CEO of the company since 2014.

American Bakers Association operates as a trade association for the baking industry. It produces bread, rolls, crackers, bagels, sweet goods, tortillas and other baked products. The company was founded on October 18, 1897 and is headquartered in Washington, DC.

Council for International Tax Education, Inc. provides tax education services. The non-profit company is based in White Plains, NY.

UMB Bank, NA (Investment Management) (UMB-IM) is the investment management division of UMB Bank, NA, a national commercial bank headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri. The firm is a subsidiary of UMB Financial Corp. (NASDAQ: UMBF). UMB-IM manages active portfolios for defined benefit plans, endowments, foundations, trusts and high net-worth individuals.

HNTB Holdings Ltd. engages in the areas of architecture, construction, aviation, highways, technology, bridges, freight rail, transit, and tunnels. The company was founded on February 17, 2004 and is headquartered in Kansas City, MO.

HNTB Corp. provides architecture, engineering and planning services. It provides architecture, aviation, bridges, construction, design build, financial resources, freight rail, high-speed rail, higways, planning, program management, technology, tolls, transit, tunnels Water. The was founded in 1914 and is headquartered in Kansas City, MO.

Eby Construction provides general contracting services. The firm offers construction management and services to the power and manufacturing industries. The company was founded by Martin K. Eby in 1937 and is headquartered in Wichita, KS.

The Scoular Co. engages in the provision of supply chain solutions. It offers risk management services; and transportation and logistics services. It serves the aquaculture, flour milling, food manufacturing and processing, grain production, specialty grains, industrial Ag rocessing, livestock feeding and feed manufacturing, renewable fuels, special crops, container and vessel transportation, rail, truck, and barge transportation. The company was founded by George Scoular in 1892 and is headquartered in Omaha, NE.

Automated Control Systems, Inc. provides software development, system integration, product evaluation, training and technical support services. It offers power generation and transmission, grain handling, aluminum processing, brewing & food processing and OEM system services. The company was founded by Daniel K. Perrier in 1995 and is headquartered in Vancouver, WA.

TranSystems Corp. engages in the provision of engineering and consulting solutions for transportation industry. It specializes in aviation, architecture, bridges, construction, federal, roadway, planning and environmental, freight, and transit. The company was founded Herbert Johnson, Gerald Brickell, and Edward Mulcahy in 1966 and is headquartered in Kansas City, MO.

Rocky Mountain Institute is a non-profit organization that transforms energy use to clean and secure low carbon future. It engages in businesses, communities, institutions, and entrepreneurs to accelerate the adoption of market-based solutions that cost-effectively shift from fossil fuels to efficiency and renewables. It examining and facilitating market-based technology that will play a role in addressing the climate problem. The company was founded by Amory Lovin in 1982 and is headquartered in Basalt, CO.

Friess Associates LLC is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Greenville, Delaware. The firm was founded by Foster Friess in 1974. They provide portfolio management services to charitable/religious organizations, high net-worth individuals, retirement plans, investment companies, private investment funds and other private institutions.

Hambrecht & Quist Group, Inc. operates as a holding investment bank and provides securities brokerage services. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Truist Securities, Inc. is a registered broker-dealer headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. The firm was founded in 1894 as SunTrust Robinson Humphrey, Inc. In 2020, the firm was renamed following the integration of SunTrust Robinson Humphrey and BB&T Capital Markets. The firm is a subsidiary of Truist Financial Corp. (NYSE: TFC) and is an active market maker in equity and fixed-income products. Truist Securities delivers a comprehensive range of strategic advisory, capital raising, risk management, and financing solutions, as well as a dynamic suite of sales, trading, and research services in both fixed-income and equity. Their strategies are carefully tailored to meet the needs and vision of their clients.

Founded in 1992, Cottonwood Research Group LLC is an independent investment research firm located in Mission Hills, Kansas. The firm's research focuses on publicly-traded healthcare companies.

BC Architects Engineers Plc provides telecommunication, architectural and space planning needs services. Its services include site development design, project management and site acquisition. The company was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Falls Church, VA.

Terra Nitrogen GP, Inc. manufactures nitrogenous fertilizers. The company is headquartered in Sioux City, IA.

SPIEGEL-Verlag Rudolf Augstein GmbH & Co. KG publishes magazines, newspapers and periodicals. The firm publishes a cultural magazine; a magazine for university and high school students; a monthly magazine featuring reports, essays, and interviews; and a business management magazine. The company was founded in 1947 and is headquartered in Hamburg, Germany.

Federated Rural Electric Insurance Exchange provides insurance services. The private company is based in Lenexa, KS and has subsidiaries in the United States. The company was founded in 1959. The CEO is Philip D. Irwin.

Columbia Mutual Insurance Co. (Investment Portfolio) (Columbia Mutual-IP) is the investment portfolio division of Columbia Mutual Insurance Co., an insurance company headquartered in Columbia, Missouri. Columbia Mutual-IP manages the investment portfolio of their clients.