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Lord Abbett & Co. LLC (Lord Abbett) is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor and mutual fund manager headquartered in Jersey City, New Jersey. Founded in 1929, Lord Abbett provides advisory services to a variety of institutional clients, the Lord Abbett Funds and other registered investment companies sponsored by third parties, the Lord Abbett UCITS Funds, the Lord Abbett Luxembourg Fund, other foreign funds, privately offered commingled funds and various separately managed accounts.

General Atlantic LLC (General Atlantic) is a private equity firm founded in 1980 by Charles F. Feeney. The firm is headquartered in New York.

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLC provides assurance, tax and advisory services. Its services include audit and assurance, consulting, deals, human resources, legal, tax, and family business. The firm also offers accountability, risk management, structuring, mergers and acquisitions, and performance and process improvement. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Buffalo, NY.

The Beanstalk Group, LLC engages in the provision of brand licensing and consultancy services. It offers brand representation, icon representation, manufacturer representation, blueprint consulting, creative services, royalty auditing, and legal and financial services. The company was founded by Seth M. Siegel and Michael S. Stone in 1992 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Credit Suisse Securities (Canada) Inc. is a broker/dealer headquartered in Toronto, Ontario with offices worldwide. The firm is a subsidiary of Credit Suisse Group (NYSE: CS). Their equity research equity group engages in a broad range of activities for investors including sales, trading, financing, prime brokerage and market-making in U.S. and international equity and equity related securities, options, futures, risk management and hedging products. Their activities cover both exchange-traded and over-the-counter traded securities, including American depositary receipts, restricted stocks, equity repurchases, block trade executions, program trading executions, equity derivatives and convertible securities. The fixed-income franchise operates as a single, unified platform that handles all fixed-income cash and derivative products. Products and services range from securitization and liability management transactions to sales and trading and superior research.

Part of Rothschild & Co. The company is based in New York, NY. Continuation Holdings AG, Rothschild, Inc. provides investment banking and advisory services.

Spectrum Group Management LLC (Spectrum) is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in Huntington, New York. The firm was founded by Jeffrey Schaffer in 1999. Spectrum provides investment advice to pooled investment vehicles, which include the Spectrum Funds. The limited partners of the Spectrum Funds may include corporations, endowments, foundations, trusts, estates, individuals and pension and profit-sharing plans.

Council on Foreign Relations, Inc. provides and disseminates ideas on foreign policies to individuals, corporate members, journalists and policy makers. It operates a forum for government officials, students and other interested parties to study and discuss world issues and impact on American foreign policies. The company publishes Foreign Affairs, a magazine that comes out six times a year, along with books and studies by its own scholars. Council on Foreign Relations was founded in 1921 and is headquartered in New York City, NY.

The American Israel Public Affairs Committee is a non-profit organization, which engages in empowering pro-Israel activists across all ages, religions, races, and political parties to be politically engaged and build relationships. The company is headquartered in Washington, DC.

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 Abraham Joshua Heschel School provides educational services. It offers a pluralistic approach to Jewish learning and observance provides children with the opportunity to develop spiritually and intellectually. The company was founded by Peter A. Geffen in 1981 and is headquartered in New York, NY.