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Ardsley Advisory Partners LP (dba Ardsley Partners) is an independent hedge fund manager headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut. The firm was founded by Philip J. Hempleman in 1987. Ardsley Partners offers investment advisory services to private investment funds and separately managed account clients.

Carnegie Mellon University is an American school that operates as a college or university. It is located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Citigroup Global Markets, Inc. (Broker) (CGMI-Broker) is the broker/dealer division of Citigroup Global Markets, Inc., an investment bank headquartered in New York City with additional offices across the US. The firm was founded in 2004 and is a subsidiary of Citigroup Financial Products, Inc., ultimately held by Citigroup, Inc. (NYSE: C). CGMI-Broker covers all market capitalizations of the major global indices and provides macro and quantitative analysis of global markets and sector trends. Their core focus of the group is to help investing clients make informed decisions by providing value-added, independent, insightful analysis.

Glenview Capital Management LLC (Glenview) is a SEC-registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded by Lawrence Robbins in 2000 and is a wholly owned subsidiary of RINC Family Partnership LLC. Glenview manages capital for qualified investors through a series of private investment funds.

Part of Canaccord Genuity Group, Inc., C.E. Unterberg, Towbin Holdings, Inc. provides financial advisory services. The company is based in New York, NY.

Monness Crespi Hardt & Co., Inc. is an independent equity research firm and full-service broker/dealer located in New York City. Founded in 1996, the firm's origins can be traced to the establishment of their predecessor firm in 1964. Monness Crespi Hardt & Co. clears all trading activity through Goldman Sachs Execution & Clearing LLC. The firm's research team produces proprietary, fundamental research that seek to identify undervalued or undercover special situations without regard to size. They focus on the following industries: automotive services, chemicals, defense, pharmaceuticals, gaming, healthcare, home builders, industrials, medical instruments, oil & gas, retail, semiconductors and special situations. Monness Crespi Hardt & Co. is a member of FINRA and the SPIC

Founded in 1986, Merriman Capital, Inc. is an SEC-registered broker/dealer and investment banking firm headquartered in San Francisco. The firm is a subsidiary of Merriman Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: MERR), a financial services firm that focuses on fast-growing companies and their institutional investors. Merriman provides advisory and investment banking, equity research, institutional services, corporate services and venture services primarily to corporate clients. Merriman Capital provides research, brokerage and trading services primarily to institutional clients. The firm offers a full range of specialized and integrated services including: equity research, specialized trade execution, equity capital markets, corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, sales and trading, market making, corporate and venture services, restructurings and strategic advisory services. Merriman Capital employs bottom-up, fundamental analysis of small-cap companies in select industries including clean technology, healthcare, technology and consumer/Internet/media. The firm also has expertise in emerging markets, with emphasis on emerging markets in China. Merriman Capital is known to engage in shareholder activist investment strategies. Merriman Capital is a member of the NASD, the SIPC and FINRA. The firm serves as an introducing broker/dealer for Pershing LLC. They do not hold or maintain funds or securities or provide clearing services for other broker/dealers.

Nomura Securities International, Inc. (NSI) is a registered broker/dealer headquartered in New York City and was founded in 1969. The firm is a division of Nomura Holding America, Inc. and their ultimate parent is Nomura Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: NMR, TYO: 8604, AMS: 8604). NSI provides securities brokerage services, as well as asset management, domestic retail, global markets, global investment banking and global merchant banking services. The firm's fixed-income business consists of bond sales and trading, origination and product supply for securitization deals and real estate-focused asset finance operations (in cooperation with Investment Banking). In the equity markets, NSI offers sales and trading of domestic and foreign stocks on a global basis, primarily for institutional investors.

Chardan Capital Markets LLC is a registered broker-dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded by Kerry Propper and Steve Urbach in 2003. The firm offers a range of services which include capital raising, merger and acquisition advisory, strategic advisory, equity research, corporate access and institutional trading to institutional clients.

Founded in 1970, Bradley Woods & Co. Ltd. is a broker/dealer located in New York City. The firm's research focuses on forecasting the impact of U.S. federal governmental policy on the U.S. equity and fixed-income securities markets. They offer a variety of products and services that help clients understand and measure the impact of legislation and regulation on U.S. companies and markets. Bradley Woods & Co. provides macro-oriented analysis. In addition, the firm offers intelligence about specifically defined issues in the areas of telecommunications, healthcare, energy and defense. Bradley Woods also offers a continuous analysis of U.S. foreign policy ranging from the Middle East to Asia.

Westwicke Partners LLC operates as a strategic communications and advisory firm that is focused exclusively on healthcare. It offers digital branding, crisis communications, and capital markets advisory. The company was founded by Robert East and Mark Klausner in 2006 and is headquartered in Baltimore, MD.

Montefiore Medical Center engages in the provision of healthcare, clinical and surgical services. It offers treatments including cardiology and cardiac surgery, cancer care, tissue and organ transplantation, children’s health, women’s health, surgery and the surgical subspecialties. The company was founded in 1884 and is headquartered in Bronx, NY.

Halle Capital Management LP (Halle Capital) is a private equity firm founded in 2019 by JP Gutfreund. The firm is headquartered in New York.

National Securities Corp., a subsidiary of National Holdings Corp., is an international, full-service, independent brokerage firm with a diverse base of retail and institutional clients. National Securities was founded in 1947 in Seattle, Washington with the goal of providing a full suite of financial products and services to its registered representatives and clients. The firm and their subsidiaries are headquartered in New York City and Seattle and have a multitude of domestic and international offices that provide a broad range of securities brokerage, financial planning, and investment services, as well as corporate finance and investment banking services to corporations and businesses. National Securities' representatives are primarily independent contractors who operate their business with freedom and flexibility in advising their clients. The firm is a member FINRA/SIPC.

Mighty Capital Management LLC (Mighty Capital) is a venture capital subsidiary of The Angels' Forum Management Co LLC founded in 2017 by SC Moatti. The firm headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Planet Smile Partners, Inc. is a company that provides professional partnership services for pediatric dentists and orthodontists. The company is based in Wilmington, DE. The company specializes in administration and practice transition, and can help improve the efficiency and effectiveness of dental practices. Gary Heitzler has been the CEO of the company since 2021.

Rallybio LLC operates as a development-stage biotechnology company. The firm develops transformative therapies for patients. It focuses on bringing life-transforming medicines to patients with devastating and rare disorder. The company was founded by Martin Mackay, Stephen Uden and Jeffrey Fryer in 2018 and is headquartered in Farmington, CT.

Rockit Pest, Inc. is a company that specializes in acquiring and operating regional pest control businesses. The company is based in Inman, SC and has subsidiaries in the United States. Rockit offers advisory services in operating, business development, financial, and strategic areas to help its pest control partners scale their businesses. Founded by Halle Capital, the company provides capital solutions to pest control operators who are looking for an ownership transition or to partner with experienced executives to accelerate growth and build a pest control company. The company was founded in 2021, and Ryan Bradbury has been the CEO since then.

Founded in 2002, Maxim Group LLC is a registered broker/dealer located in New York City. The firm provides an array of financial services including: investment banking, equity research, private wealth management, structured products and global institutional equity, fixed-income and derivative sales and trading to a diverse range of corporate clients, institutional investors and high net-worth individuals. Maxim Group's niche is emerging-growth companies in a variety of sectors including healthcare, technology, retail and others. They utilize a fundamental, bottom-up approach to investment recommendations. The firm combines rigorous financial analysis of specific companies and industries with due diligence that includes frequent consults with suppliers, customers, competitors and senior management. The firm focuses on under-covered, small- to-mid-cap companies where valuation levels may be out of sync with fundamental trends. Maxim's coverage universe often represents attractive niche industries where stocks tend to be inefficient. This research coverage fills a void created by the downsized research ranks and shrinking coverage of small- to mid-cap stocks by large investment banks. Maxim Group is a member of FINRA, the MSRB, the SIPC, the ISE, NASDAQ and NYSE Arca.