Uma N. Venkatraman

Cowen & Co. LLC is a SEC-registered broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 2004 and is a subsidiary of Cowen Holdings, Inc., ultimately owned by The Toronto-Dominion Bank (TSE: TD) in Canada. Cowen & Co. offers industry-focused investment banking for growth-oriented companies, domain knowledge-driven research and a sales and trading platform for institutional investors. Their institutional sales and trading business serves both equity and fixed-income clients. Sales and trading execution platform is structured around the following key verticals: (1) healthcare (2) technology, telecommunications and media (TMT) (3) REITs and financials (4) aerospace and defense (5) consumer and (6) alternative energy.

Delta Asset Management LLC (Delta) is a registered investment advisor headquartered in Memphis, Tennessee. The firm was founded by Myron Mall and Alex Conaway in 1989. They are a subsidiary of WT Acquisition LLC, which is owned by HighTower Holding LLC. Delta provides investment advice to individual persons, banks or thrift institutions, pension and profit-sharing plans, trusts, estates, charitable organizations, corporations or similar business entities, and state or municipal government entities.

UBS Securities LLC is an investment bank and registered broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1998 as UBS Warburg LLC. They are a subsidiary of UBS Americas Holding LLC, ultimately held by UBS Group AG (SWX: UBSG, NYSE: UBS) in Switzerland. UBS Securities is a primary dealer in US Government securities and provides a full range of investment banking services which includes corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, trading and sales, fixed-income, equity research, private banking, underwriting and prime brokerage operations. The firm also provides advisory services and access to capital markets for corporate, institutional, intermediary and alternative asset management clients.

Aditya Birla Sun Life AMC Ltd. (Investment Management) (ABSLAMC-IM) is the investment management division of Aditya Birla Sun Life AMC Ltd. (NSE: ABSLAMC), a publicly-listed investment company headquartered in Mumbai, India. The firm was founded in 1994 and formerly known as Birla Sun Life Asset Management Co. Ltd. They are a subsidiary of Aditya Birla Capital Ltd. (NSE: ABCAPITAL), which is owned by Grasim Industries Ltd. (NSE: GRASIM). ABSLAMC-IM acts as the investment manager of Aditya Birla Sun Life Mutual Fund (ABSLMF) and manages a variety of mutual funds, fund of funds and offshore funds for wholesale and retail clients.

Founded in 1990, Capital One Southcoast, Inc., formerly Hibernia Southcoast Capital, is a full-service investment banking firm and broker/dealer located in New Orleans, Louisiana with an additional office in Houston, Texas. The firm is a subsidiary of Capital One Financial Corp. (NYSE: COF). They are provide corporate finance, equity research, institutional equity sales and trading services to private and mid-market public companies. The firm offers broad coverage of over 1,000 domestic and foreign institutional accounts for mutual funds, pension funds, hedge funds, insurance firms and other institutional investors. Capital One Southcoast's analysts provide coverage across the energy sector including energy infrastructure, oilfield services and oil & gas exploration and production.

Part of ICICI Bank Ltd., ICICI Securities & Finance Co. Ltd. is an Indian company that provides financial advisory services. The company is based in New Delhi, India and was founded in 1993.

Morgan Keegan Healthcare Investment Banking provides investment banking and financial advisory services. It also provides strategic advisory, merger and acquisition advisory, placements of debt and equity, taxable and tax-exempt debt underwriting, financial advisory, derivatives, reinvestments, and real estate transaction services. It serves hospitals, senior living, managed care, pharmaceuticals, medical distribution, outsourcing, healthcare information technology, real estate, higher education, and specialty not-for-profit organizations. The company was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Tata Asset Management Pvt Ltd. (TAMPL) is a fund management firm headquartered in Mumbai, India. The firm was founded in 1994 and is a subsidiary of Tata Sons Pvt. Ltd. TAMPL manages investments of Tata Mutual Fund, a mutual fund registered with SEBI. The firm also offers portfolio management services to high-net-worth individuals and advisory services to offshore investors/funds that invests in India.

Franklin Templeton Asset Management (India) Pvt. Ltd. (FTAM-India) is a fund management firm headquartered in Mumbai, Indian. The firm was founded in 1996 and is a subsidiary of Franklin Templeton Holding Ltd., ultimately owned by Franklin Resources, Inc. (NYSE: BEN) in the US. FTAM-India manages a range of mutual funds for Indian investors.

ICICI Venture Funds Management Co. Ltd (ICICI) is a Private Equity firm, a subsidiary of ICICI Bank Ltd. founded in 1988. The firm is headquartered in India.

Numaligarh Refinery Ltd. refines and produces petroleum products. Its products include LPG, naphtha, motor spirit, aviation turbine fuel, superior kerosene oil, high-speed diesel, raw petroleum coke, calcined petroleum coke, and sulphur. The company was founded in October 2000 and is headquartered in Guwahati, India.

Aviva Life Insurance Co. (India) Ltd. (Aviva India) is a life insurance firm headquartered in Gurgaon, India. The firm was founded in 2002 as a joint venture between Dabur India Ltd. (Dabur) (NSE: DABUR) and Aviva plc (Aviva) (LON: AV). In 2022, Aviva acquired an additional 25% minority stake in Aviva India from Dabur and the acquisition increases Aviva’s ownership to 74%. The firm provides bancassurance, financial health check services and unit-linked products for customer savings, retirement, investment and protection needs. Aviva India is a socially responsible firm which provides micro insurance initiatives to the underprivileged through their distribution network of branches and Bancassurance partnerships throughout India.

Cornell University is an educational institution that offers undergraduate and post graduate programs. It was founded in 1865 and is based in Ithaca, NY.

Global Factory, Inc. provides collaborative manufacturing execution systems. The firm's software gather, organize & analyze demand, production & quality data from various sources and monitor key indicators & execute business processes to control, manage & optimize distributed manufacturing operations. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Tema India Ltd. manufactures shell and tube heat exchangers. Its products include surface condenser, waste heat recovery system, high pressure vessels, rodbaffle heat exchanger, helixchanger, and screw-plugs. The company was founded by Bulsara Khushroo, Chetan S. Doshi and Haresh K. Sippy in 1987 and is headquartered in Mumbai, India.

Morgan Keegan & Co. LLC is a broker/dealer headquartered in St. Petersburg, Florida. The firm was founded in 1969 and is a subsidiary of Raymond James Financial, Inc. (NYSE: RJF). Morgan Keegan & Co. provides securities brokerage services to various types of clients.

Founded in 1958, Merrill Lynch Piece Fenner & Smith, Inc. is an SEC registered broker/dealer located in New York City. The firm is a subsidiary of BAC North America Holding Co. and their ultimate parent is Bank of America Corp. (NYSE BAC).

BofA Securities, Inc. is a registered broker-dealer subsidiary of NB Holdings Corp., ultimately held by Bank of America Corp. (NYSE: BAC). Headquartered in New York, the firm was founded in 2015 and offers trade execution, trading or brokerage services to institutional clients.

Indiabulls Asset Management Co. Ltd. (Indiabulls AMC) is a mutual fund management firm headquartered in Mumbai, India. Founded in 2008, the firm was acquired in 2023 by Nextbillion Technology Pvt Ltd., a subsidiary of Billionbrains Garage Ventures Pvt Ltd. Indiabulls AMC provides portfolio management services to Indiabulls mutual fund range.

IDBI Mutual Fund Trustee Co. Ltd. engages in the provision of financial advisory services. The company is headquartered in Mumbai, India.