Thomas Henrik Shrager

Tweedy, Browne Co. LLC (TBC) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut. The firm is the successor to Tweedy & Co., which was founded by Forrest Berwind Tweedy in 1920 as a dealer in closely, held and inactively traded securities. They are a subsidiary of AMG TBC LLC, ultimately held by Affiliated Managers Group, Inc. (NYSE: AMG). TBC provides investment advisory services to individuals, institutions, partnerships, pension and profit sharing plans, charitable foundations, trusts, private funds, offshore funds and four US registered mutual funds.

Arthur D. Little, Inc. engages in the provision of management consulting services. It specializes in strategy and organization, operations management, technology and innovation management, corporate finance, and global carbon advisory serving corporations and organizations worldwide. The firm serves the automotive, healthcare, information, chemicals, consumer goods, retail, manufacturing, and transportation industries. The company was founded by Arthur Dehon Little and Roger Griffin in October 1886 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Bear, Stearns & Co., Inc. is a global investment banking, securities trading and brokerage firm located in New York City with additional offices in Dallas, Boston and San Francisco. The firm is a subsidiary Bear Sterns Cos., Inc. (NYSE: BSC). Their equity research team consists of senior analysts located throughout the world. In addition to domestic coverage, they have research teams focusing on Latin America, Asia and Europe. The analysts use a bottom-up approach to stock selection. The Bear Stearns fixed-income research department provides coverage of every sector of the fixed-income universe. The financial analytics and structured transactions group (F.A.S.T) provides investment research, fixed-income portfolio management and analytical systems, trading technology and general financial expertise. The group also provides a broad range of services to financial institutions including asset-liability management, balance sheet restructuring, receivables-based financing analysis, security and portfolio analysis, peer analysis, and historical and real-time market-based information.