René Marc Kern

Riskmetrics Group LLC provides financial risk management services. The firm provides financial analytics and wealth management solutions to different financial institutions, corporations and central banks. It consists of three primary business units–risk management, governance services and financial research. The company was founded by Ethan M. Berman in 1994 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

University of California, Berkeley Foundation engages in the provision of philanthropic services.It offers social services and supports the advancement of higher education by securing private financial support. The company was founded by Phoebe Apperson Hearst, Jane Sather, Charles Franklin Doe in 1868 and is headquartered in Berkeley, CA.

Founded in 1998, MSCI is an investment research firm headquartered in New York City. The firm is a subsidiary of MSCI, Inc. (NYSE: MSCI). The firm was originally formed and operated by Morgan Stanley. In 2004, MSCI acquires Barra, a leading provider of portfolio and firm wide investment risk management systems and services. As part of this transaction, MSCI also acquired Financial Engineering Associates (FEA), a firm specializing in energy derivatives modeling. MSCI They became independent of Morgan Stanley in 2009. In 2010, MSCI acquired RiskMetrics and its subsidiary Institutional Shareholder Services, expanding MSCI's risk management offerings and moving into corporate governance and the ESG space. Also in 2010, the firm acquired Measurisk, a leading provider of independent risk transparency and risk measurement tools for hedge fund investors. MSCI provides investment decision support tools to over 5,000 clients worldwide, ranging from large pension plans to boutique hedge funds. They offer a variety of products and services including indices, portfolio risk and performance analytics and governance tools.

The Greenwich Academy, Inc. provides educational services. The company was founded in 1827 and is located in Greenwich, CT.

BM&FBovespa SA organizes, develops and provides systems for the trading of equities, derivates, fixed income securities, federal government securities, financial derivates, spot foreign exchange and agricultural commodities. It operates its business through the following segments: Bovespa, BM&F, and Institutional & Corporate Products. The Bovespa segment offers various mechanisms and tools for trading of fixed and variable income securities on stock and over the counter markets. The BM&F segment covers the main steps of the cycles of trading and settlement of securities and contracts. The segment also includes the trading of commodities, foreign exchange, public debt, and services provided by Banco BM&F and the Brazilian Commodities Exchange. The Institutional & Corporate Products segment provides services such as depository of securities, as well as lending and listing of securities, data services and classification of commodities, and technological products. The company was founded on May 8, 2008 and is headquartered in São Paulo, Brazil.

amedes Holding GmbH offers interdisciplinary and medical diagnostic services for patients, doctors, hospitals, and other facilities. It specializes in laboratory medicine, medical microbiology, virology and infectious disease epidemiology, andrology, human genetic services, pathology, prenatal medicine, reproductive medicine, rheumatology, transfusion medicine and cytology. The company was founded by Helmut Wagner and Werner Stibbe in 1987 and is headquartered in Hamburg, Germany.

MeteoGroup Ltd. engages in the provision of weather forecasting services. Its products and solutions include SPOS9 for route planning and optimization, WeatherSuite, WeatherAPI (Application Programming Interface), NowCasting Pro, and dynamic line rating and hotspot analysis. Its product suites cater to various industries such as shipping, offshore, energy, road management, air travel, road management, insurance, water management, and automotive. The company was founded in 1986 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Virtu KCG Holdings LLC operates as an independent securities company, which offers services designed to address trading needs across asset classes, product types and time zones. It operates through the following segments: Market Making, Global Execution Services and Corporate and other. The company was founded on December 26, 2012 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Part of General Atlantic Service Co. LP, Sunshine TopCo Ltd. is a British company that provides weather forecasting services. The private company is based in London, UK. Sunshine TopCo was founded in 2013.

MSCI ESG Research is an investment research firm headquartered in New York City. The firm is a subsidiary of MSCI, Inc. (NYSE: MSCI). The firm provides in-depth research, ratings and analysis of the environmental, social and governance-related business practices of thousands of companies worldwide. MSCI ESG Research builds on the expertise and achievements of sustainability pioneers KLD, Innovest and IRRC, acquired through MSCI's acquisition of RiskMetrics.

Getco Holding Co. LLC provides electronic trading and technology services. It operates as a trading stamp promotion and redemption. The company was founded by Daniel V. Tierney and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.