Richard Sexton

Cowen & Co. LLC is a SEC-registered broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 2004 and is a subsidiary of Cowen Holdings, Inc., ultimately owned by The Toronto-Dominion Bank (TSE: TD) in Canada. Cowen & Co. offers industry-focused investment banking for growth-oriented companies, domain knowledge-driven research and a sales and trading platform for institutional investors. Their institutional sales and trading business serves both equity and fixed-income clients. Sales and trading execution platform is structured around the following key verticals: (1) healthcare (2) technology, telecommunications and media (TMT) (3) REITs and financials (4) aerospace and defense (5) consumer and (6) alternative energy.

Google LLC engages in the operation of internet portal and search index website. It provides online advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing, and software solutions. The company was founded by Lawrence E. Page and Sergey Mikhaylovich Brin on September 4, 1998 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

RAF Technology, Inc. provides identity verification software. It offers software and enterprise solutions for identity verification, authentication, security and visual recognition systems. The firm also provides services to protecting government and commercial electronic transactions, data and enabling complex optical mechanical processes. The company was founded by David Justin Ross in 1989 and is headquartered in Redmond, WA.

Home Value Protection Inc. provides home insurance services. The company was founded by Eric Hutchinson, Daniel P. Sanford and Craig Schmeizer in 2009 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Benetech, Inc. provides dust control and bulk material handling solutions. Its products include engineered transfer chutes, belt support & containment, dust suppression, washdown systems, wet dust extraction and specialty applications. The firm offers engineering, assessments, plant and training services. The company was founded in 1983 and is headquartered in Aurora, IL.

Headquartered in San Francisco, Epoch Partners, a subsidiary of Goldman Sachs & Co., is a technology-enabled investment bank focused on high-growth companies and electronically connected institutional and individual investors. The firm offers a full array of investment services. Their ultimate parent is Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE:GS).

Northwestern University is a private institution founded in 1851 to serve the Northwest Territory, an area that now includes the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and parts of Minnesota. Northwestern has three campuses

California Institute of Technology provides education focusing on science, engineering, academia, business, and public service. The company was founded in 1891 and it is headquartered in Pasadena, CA.

Currenex, Inc. provides on-line foreign exchange and money market trading services. It offers corporate and institutional buyers and sellers in the foreign exchange and money markets electronic access to the global foreign exchange market. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Csoft, Inc. engages in the development of applicant tracking system and recruiting software for human resources and recruiting agencies. Its product includes CATS pro. The company was founded by Asim Baig in 2005 and is headquartered in Minneapolis, MN.

Part of Gen Digital Inc., VERITAS Software Technology Corp. is a company that provides security, storage, and systems management solutions. The company is based in Mountain View, CA.

Value Monitoring, Inc. (VMI) is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Menlo Park, California. Founded in 1988, the firm is owned and controlled by Mark Alexander Levenson and David Hendrik Levenson. VMI provides investment advisory services to separately managed accounts for institutional investors and high net-worth individuals, and acts as a sub-advisor to a private investment fund that is a series of a multi-series fund managed by a third-party manager, SALI Fund Services (SALI).

Benchmark Cloud Accounting, Inc. provides advisory, controller, and critical thinking accounting services using technology. The private company is based in Austin, TX and has subsidiaries in the United States. The company's main focus is to help businesses gain a better understanding of accounting to help them run their business more efficiently. The company offers key bookkeeping details that investors pay close attention to. BMCA was founded by Sharrin Fuller and Matthew Elson, with Matthew Elson serving as the CEO since incorporation.