Taylor Bernal

Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC (Credit Suisse Securities USA) is the broker/dealer division of Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, an investment banking company headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1998 and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Credit Suisse (USA), Inc., ultimately owned by Credit Suisse Group AG (SWX: CSGN) in Switzerland. Credit Suisse Securities USA offers a suite of equities, solutions and credit products and services which includes global securities sales, trading and execution, prime brokerage and comprehensive investment research. Their clients include financial institutions, corporations, governments, institutional investors, such as pension funds and hedge funds, and private individuals around the world.

Fisher Asset Management LLC, dba Fisher Investments (FI), is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Plano, Texas. The firm was founded in 1979 by Ken Fisher and is a subsidiary of Fisher Investments, Inc. FI manages the assets of a diverse global client base which includes corporations, public and multi-employer pension funds, foundations and endowments, insurance companies, health-care organizations, governments and high net worth families.

New Aurora Corp. provides communication software solutions. The company was founded on April 11, 1994 and is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA.

UBS Financial Services, Inc. is a registered investment advisor and wealth management firm headquartered in Weehawken, New Jersey. The firm is a wholly-owned subsidiary of UBS Americas Inc., ultimately held by UBS Group AG (SWX: UBSG; NYSE: UBS) in Switzerland. Founded in 1969, UBS Financial Services provides investment advisory services to individuals, banks, thrift institutions, mutual funds and other investment companies, pension and employee benefit plans, trusts, estates, charities, corporations and other business and government entities.

TIAA-CREF Investment Management LLC (TCIM) is a registered investment advisor headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1997 and is a wholly-owned subsidiary of TIAA-CREF Asset Management LLC, ultimately owned by TIAA Board of Governors. TCIM provides investment management and certain administrative services necessary for the operation of the College Retirement Equities Fund (CREF), a diversified open-end registered investment management company that consists of eight accounts, that issues individual, group and tax-deferred variable annuity contracts.

Abmaxis Inc. develops pharmaceutical drugs. The company discovers and optimizes monoclonal antibody (mAb) products for human therapeutics and diagnostics. It has developed antibody engineering technology platform, Abmaxis in-silico Immunization (AISIM TM), which they are used for building an internal product pipeline and collaboration with global biotech and pharmaceutical partners. The company was founded in 2000 and is located in Santa Clara, CA.

Part of C.M. Capital Corp., C.M. Capital Advisors LLC is a company that provides investment advice. The company is based in Palo Alto, CA.

LoudCloud Systems, Inc. provides an analytics platform for the education sector. It offers a competency based courseware platform, a learning analytics platform and services, an eReading product, and a learning management system. The company was founded by Manoj Kutty and Anil Sonkar in 2010 and is headquartered in Plano, TX.

Founded in 2008, Northcoast Research Partners LLC is an independent, full-service, institutional equity research firm located in Cleveland, Ohio. The firm is a subsidiary of Northcoast Research Holdings LLC. Their research coverage include: business services, consumer, healthcare, industrial/basic materials and accounting/tax policy.

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.

McKinsey & Co., Inc. provides management consulting services. It specializes in design, marketing and sales, analytics, operations, transformation and restructuring, risk, strategy and corporate finance, and sustainability and resource productivity. The company was founded by James O. McKinsey in 1926 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

JMI Management, Inc. (JMI Equity) is a private equity and venture capital firm founded in 1992 by Harry S. Gruner and Charlie E. Noell. The firm is headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland.

Needham & Co. LLC (Needham) is a registered investment advisor and broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1985 and is a wholly-owned indirect subsidiary of The Needham Group, Inc. Needham provides corporate and institutional clients with high quality research, corporate access, capital markets and trading execution services in both the public and private markets, with an emphasis on growth companies.

3leaf Systems, Inc. offers server virtualization solutions to the enterprise data centers. It provides virtualization architecture that enables mainframe-class capabilities for commodity servers. The company was founded by Isam Akkawi, Bob Quinn and Scott Linda in June 2004 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Kenna Security, Inc. provides vulnerability threat management platform. The firm’s products include Kenna.VM, Kenna.AppSec and Kenna.VI. It specializes in vulnerability management, vulnerability intelligence, threat management and information security. The company was founded by Jeffrey P. Heuer and Edward T. Bellis in 2010 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Quizlet, Inc. provides educational services. It develops and builds learning tools for students and teachers worldwide. The firm's tools are uses by various students from grade school to graduate school and language learners to vocational students allowing them to improve their performance at any level. It also provides tools for teachers to engage their students with their flashcards, tests, quizzes, and study games. The company was founded by Andrew Sutherland in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Bugcrowd, Inc. provides crowdsourced security for mobile applications. It offers security testing solutions for Web applications, APIs and Webservices, SaaS applications, various types of Websites, and customer premise products; mobile apps, such as iOS, Android, and more; and charities and not-for-profits. The firm provides security testing solutions through a Crowdcontrol system. The company was founded by Casey Ellis, Sergei Belokamen and Chris Raethke in 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Accel-KKR LLC (Accel-KKR) is a private equity firm founded in 2000 by Thomas Barnds. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

Kepler Communications, Inc. operates as a satellite communications company. It establishes an in-space telecommunications network for space-borne assets. The firm offers global data services such as augment existing systems, backwards compatible, and pole-to-pole coverage. The company was founded by Mina Mitry, Mark Michael, Wen Cheng Chong, Samer Bishay and Jeffrey R. Osborne in 2015 and is headquartered in Toronto, CA.

Directly, Inc. provides customer support services. It integrates with helpdesk & community software including desk, Jive, Lithium, Microsoft Dynamics, Oracle, Salesforce, SAP, Zendesk. The firm makes on-demand business apps. Directly was founded by Antony Brydon, Jeff Patterson and Jean Tessier in 2011 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

FOSSA, Inc. provides real-time defense against license violations system. It analyzes the Open Source in code to help proactively identify risk and satisfy license obligations. The company was founded by Kevin X. Wang on March 27, 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

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

Smile Identity, Inc. is an investment company, which engages in the provision of encryption, authentication, and security solutions. Its SmartSelfie, is an image processing technology that provides universal facial recognition solution. The company was founded by William Henry Bares and Mark David Straub on December 28, 2016 and is headquartered in Oakland, CA.

Silicon Valley Product Group engages in providing management consulting services. It specializes in product management, technology, user experience design and products marketing. The company was founded by Marty Cagan and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Bishop Fox, Inc. engages in the provision of network security consulting and testing solutions. It offers application, network, infrastructure, architecture and cloud security, and integrated services. The company was founded by Vincent Liu and Francis Brown in 2005 and is headquartered in Tempe, AZ.

Elevate Security, Inc. develops web-based platform that focuses on shifting human behavior and responses to security threats. It offers security awareness, behavior change and phishing. The company was founded by Robert Fly and Masha Sedova and is headquartered in Berkeley, CA.

Avicennas Group, Inc. provides a platform that connects patients with hospitals, clinics and doctors. The company was founded by Ato Kasymov and Manny Kurbonali in 2015 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Parallel Domain, Inc. provides 3D environment generation software for autonomous vehicle simulation. It develops autonomous systems, simulation technology, video games, and visual effects to utilize simulation to accelerate the transition to transportation. The company was founded by Kevin McNamara in 2017 and is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA.

Eptura, Inc. is a company based in Atlanta, GA with subsidiaries in Singapore, the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, and Belgium. The CEO of the company is Brandon Holden.

Barclays Capital, Inc. is a registered broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1997 and is a subsidiary of Barclays Group US, Inc., ultimately owned by Barclays plc (LON: BARC) in Great Britain. Barclays Capital provides large corporate, government and institutional clients a full spectrum of prime brokerage services which includes equities and fixed income financing, OTC Clearing, Futures and Foreign Exchange Prime Brokerage and access to industry insights and analytics from their Strategic Consulting team.

City National Rochdale LLC (CNR) is the SEC-registered investment management subsidiary of CNR Holdings LLC, ultimately held by Royal Bank of Canada (NYSE, TSE: RY) in Canada. The firm was founded when Rochdale Investment Management LLC was combined with City National Asset Management, Inc. and City National Bank's investment management group, City National Asset Management. Headquartered in New York City, CNR provides portfolio management services to high net-worth individual investors as well as to registered investment companies and institutions.

Pring Turner Capital Group, Inc. (PTCG) is an independent registered investment advisor headquartered in Walnut Creek, California. The firm was founded by Martin J. Pring and Joe D. Turner in 1988. PTCG offers investment advisory services on a fee-only basis to individuals, IRAs, family trusts, corporations, corporate retirement plans, foundations, and other investment advisers.

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.

Indus Capital Partners LLC (Indus) is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 2000 by David Kowitz, Sheldon Kasowitz and Byron Gill. Indus provides investment supervisory and management services on a discretionary basis primarily to commingled private investments funds and institutional clients.