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Bailard, Inc. is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Foster City, California. The firm (formerly Bailard, Biehl and Kaiser prior to its re-naming in 2005) was founded in 1969 by three graduates of the Stanford Graduate School of Business. They are a wholly owned subsidiary of BB&K Holdings, Inc. Bailard provides investment advisory and financial planning services and offers single asset strategies to investors on a standalone basis. The firm manages separate accounts for institutional clients and provides advisory and sub-advisory services to pooled investment vehicles.

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.

University of Southern California is a private research university that mainly offers undergraduate, graduate & other higher education. The university was founded in 1880 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

Arthur Andersen LLP used to provide accounting services. It was also into consulting services for clients that operate businesses throughout the United States and around the world. Arthur Andersen was founded in 1913 and was headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Pacific Community Ventures LLC (PCV) is a private equity firm founded in 1999. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Signature Estate & Investment Advisors LLC (SEIA) is a SEC-registered investment advisor and wealth management firm headquartered in Los Angeles, California. The firm was founded by Brian D. Holmes in 1997. They are wholly owned by Signature Financial Service Group LLC, which is owned primarily by a consortium of employees and investors through Reverence Capital Partners Opportunities Fund V LP. SEIA provides investment advisory services to individuals, trusts, estates, pension and profit-sharing plans, charitable organizations, corporations and other businesses.

BDO USA LLP operates as an accounting, auditing, and bookkeeping firm. It offers advisory; audit and assurance; digital; and tax services. The company was founded by Maximillian L. Seidman in 1910 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Jefferies LLC is a global investment bank and institutional securities firm headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1962 and is a subsidiary of Jefferies Group LLC, ultimately held by Jefferies Financial Group, Inc. (NYSE: JEF). Jefferies provides corporate clients with research and execution services in equity, fixed income, and foreign exchange markets, as well as a full range of investment banking services such as underwriting, mergers and acquisitions, restructuring and recapitalization, and other advisory services, with all businesses operating in the Americas, Europe and Asia.

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

JPMorgan Securities LLC (JPMS) is a securities brokerage firm headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1985 and is a subsidiary of JPMorgan Broker-Dealer Holdings, Inc., ultimately held by JPMorgan Chase & Co., Inc. (NYSE: JPM). JPMS provides research on fixed income, credit, derivatives, emerging markets, foreign exchange, structured finance, technical analysis and bond indices. Their equity analysts cover equities throughout North America, EMEA, Asia/Pacific and the emerging markets. The firm's fixed income team formulates trading and portfolio recommendations for investors in global bonds and other fixed-income markets based on valuations, analytics and market dynamics.

Xenon Ventures LLC (Xenon Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 2014 by Jonathan Siegel. The firm is headquartered in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Accel Partners LLC is a venture capital firm founded in 1987 by Jim Swartz and Arthur Patterson. The firm is headquartered in California, the US.

Exceptional Cloud Services, Inc. develops error tracking applications. The company is based in Windcrest, TX. Exceptional Cloud Services was acquired by Rackspace Technology Global, Inc. on March 28, 2013 for $17 million.

Earth Class Mail, Inc. provides online postal mail services. It offers virtual mailroom solutions to manage postal mails, such as nationwide address network, receiving item, intra-account transfer, open and scan content, electronic check deposit, shipping, storage, send to bill.com, shred and recycle, in-store pickup, registered agent, unlimited user, envelope image, document scanning, digital mail, live support, and special solutions. The firm provides online logistics services, including postal mail management, mail and parcel forwarding, and fulfillment and logistics management services. The company was founded by Ron Wiener and Michael Miles in 2006 and is headquartered in San Antonio, TX.

RightSignature LLC designs and develops technology solutions for electronic signature. It helps professionals, small businesses, and enterprises around the world to get documents signed with secure and legally binding e-signatures. The company was founded by Daryl Bernstein, Cary Dunn and Jonathan Siegel in 2009 and is headquartered in Santa Barbara, CA.

RightScale, Inc. provides cloud computing management solutions and services. The firm offers PlanForCloud.com, a free cloud cost management tool based on database. It products include cloud management, analytics and pricing. The company was founded by Michael Crandell and Thorsten von Eicken in 2006 and is headquartered in Santa Barbara, CA.

Accel Partners Management LLP provides investment advisory services. The company was founded by Jim Swartz and Arthur Patterson in 1983 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

ELC, Inc. is a mobile, cloud and web application developer. Its products include ELC Mobile, ELC Cloud, and ELC Apps. The company was founded on May 11, 2012 and is headquartered in Stevenson Ranch, CA.

Founded in 1979, Halbert Hargrove Global Advisors LLC is a registered investment advisor located in Long Beach, California. The firm provides services to individuals, pension and profit sharing plans, Voluntary Employees? Beneficiary Association Plans (?VEBAs?), trusts, estates, charitable organizations, corporations and business entities.

Channel Wealth LLC is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Santa Barbara, California. The firm was formed in 2019 and is owned by Justin Anderson, Christian Snowden, Maxwell Phillips, Justin Pollack, and Brett Weichbrod. Channel Wealth offers discretionary investment management, non-discretionary and investment advisory services, financial planning and consulting to various clients.

Howard Capital Management, Inc. (HCM) is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Roswell, Georgia. The firm was founded by Ronald Howard in 1999. HCM offers professional money management services to private clients, financial advisors, and registered investment advisors through a suite of separately managed accounts, retirement tools, self-directed brokerage accounts, proprietary mutual funds and ETFs.

Nuveen Asset Management LLC (NAM) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. The firm was founded in 2011 and is a subsidiary of Nuveen Fund Advisors LLC, which is ultimately owned by TIAA Board of Governors. NAM provides investment advisory and sub-advisory services to a broad range of individual and institutional clients, such as open-end and closed-end investment companies and other pooled investment vehicles.

Sagent LLC engages in the provision of communications network equipment, repair solutions, and maintenance services. It offers telecommunication services, network technology, wireless technology, cable MSO technology, and datacenter services. The company was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Coppell, TX.

The Bank of New York Mellon is a state chartered bank. It offers asset servicing, issuer services, treasury services, broker-dealer, and advisor services and bank-advised business of asset management. The company is headquartered in New York, NY.