Steve Vande Vrede

Edible Garden Corp. operates as a hydroponic herb and produce cultivator. The company was founded by Steve Vande Vrede and Michael Vande Vrede and is headquartered in Irvine, CA.

Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. (Investment Portfolio) (MetLife-IM) is the insurance management division of Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., which is owned by MetLife, Inc. (NYSE: MET), a global provider of insurance, annuities and employee benefit programs. The firm is headquartered in New York City with additional office in Morristown, New Jersey. MetLife-IM offers group dental benefit plans for individuals, employees, retirees and their families and provides dental plan administration for over 20 million people. The firm provides disability products for individuals, as well as employee and association groups who receive them through their employer.

ZT Corporate (ZT Corporate) is a private equity firm founded in 1997 by Taseer A. Badar and Kraig W. Killough. The firm is headquartered in Houston, Texas.

HillviewMed, Inc. provides all-natural cannabidiol-infused tinctures, edibles, and lotions. The company is headquartered in Lincoln Park, NJ.

Part of Blum Holdings, Inc., Gro-Rite, Inc. is a plant nursery. The company is based in Lincoln Park, NJ. Gro-Rite was acquired by Unrivaled Brands, Inc. on February 25, 2013.

Trident Management LLC (Trident Management) is a private equity firm founded in 2017 by Nicholas Wood and Eric Taylor. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Surveyor Capital Ltd. is a hedge fund seeding platform headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 2008 and is a subsidiary of Citadel LP, which is owned by GFH HFEVA LLC. Surveyor Capital manages capital exclusively for Citadel’s multi-strategy funds and its positions are consolidated in Form 13F filed by Citadel Advisors LLC.

Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC (GS&Co.) is a securities brokerage firm headquartered in New York City. Founded in 1927, the firm is a subsidiary of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE: GS). GS&Co. provides services to help hedge funds manage risk, monitor portfolios, maintain liquidity and build their businesses. They offer clients access to global equity and derivatives markets, as well as foreign exchange, commodities, European Lefts, rates and credit across the Americas, Europe and Asia. The firm proactively monitors capital markets, searching for pockets of liquidity and news that may require changes to those strategies. Integration with the Goldman Sachs network gives clients access to the firm's sectored block trades and their insights into price discovery. Their electronic trading program provides clients with tools to manage their trades from pre-trade analytics to post-trade analysis.

Financial Technology Ventures Management Co LLC (Financial Technology Ventures) is a private equity firm founded in 1998 by Jim Hale, Bob Huret and Richard Garman. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Canterbury Consulting, Inc. provides investment advisory services. Its services include institutional advisory, outsourced and discretionary management and wealth management. The company was founded by Robinson Cluck in 1998 and is headquartered in Newport Beach, CA.

Canterbury Consulting Group, Inc. provides training and educational services to corporations, government entities, religious organizations, and university clients. The firm offers protection services, computer software training and management, professional training, and personality development courses. The company was founded in 1981 and is headquartered in Medford, NJ.

Ground/Water Treatment & Technology LLC provides services for general industrial and oil and gas sectors. Its specialties involve manufacturing of new integrated turn-key treatment systems, remediation and construction of remediation systems inclusive of compressed air, high/low vacuum, carbon and water treatment systems, subsurface piping systems, equipment rentals and operations and maintenance for groundwater, process water, wastewater or soil remediation systems. The company was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Wharton, NJ.