Mary Louise Pierson

Fairpointe Capital LLC is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. The firm was founded in 2011 by Thyra Zerhusen, Marie Lorden, Mary Pierson and Robert Burnstine. Fairpointe Capital provides portfolio management services to high net-worth individuals, investment companies, pension or profit sharing plans, charitable institutions, foundations & endowments, corporations, governmental entities, pooled investment vehicles, other registered investment advisors and consultants. Their flagship fund is AMG Managers Fairpointe Mid-Cap.

Optimum Investment Advisors LLC (OIA) is a registered investment advisor headquartered in Chicago, Illinois and was founded in 1989. The firm is a subsidiary of Optimum Investment Group LLC. OIA provides investment advisory services consisting primarily of discretionary asset management through use of equity, fixed income and balanced (between equity securities such as stocks and fixed income securities such as municipal and government bonds) portfolios. Their clients include individual persons, investment companies, pension and profit sharing plans, trusts, estates, charitable organizations, corporations or similar business and governmental entities.