Victor R. Simone

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.

Grantham, Mayo, Van Otterloo & Co. LLC (dba GMO) is a privately-held, SEC-registered global investment management firm headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. GMO was founded was founded in 1977 and provides investment advice to a wide variety of clients.

Warburg Pincus LLC (Warburg Pincus) is a private equity subsidiary of Warburg Pincus & Company US LLC founded in 1966. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Hirsch Solutions, Inc. distributes apparel decoration equipment and technology solutions. It provides embroidery equipment, embroidery and software automation solutions, textile lasers, direct-to-garment equipment, direct to garment printers and industrial sewing machines, textile dryer equipment, and screen printing equipment. The company was founded in 1968 and is headquartered in Huntersville, NC.

Goldman Sachs Execution & Clearing LP (GSEC) is an SEC-registered broker/dealer headquartered in New York City and was founded in 1931. The firm is a subsidiary of Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE: GS). GSEC provides brokerage services to their clients.

Knight Capital Group, Inc. is a global financial services firm, which provides access to the capital markets across multiple asset classes to a broad network of clients, including buy and sell side firms, dealers, brokers, institutions, and corporations. It operates business through four segments: Market Making, Institutional Sales and Trading, Electronic Execution Services and Corporate and Other. The Market Making segment consists of market making in global equities and listed domestic options. It includes client, and to a lesser extent, non-client electronic market making activities in which they operate as a market maker in equity securities. The Institutional Sales and Trading segment includes global equity, exchange traded funds and fixed income sales and trading; reverse mortgage origination and securitization; capital markets; and asset management activities. Its business consists of execution and facilitation equities and fixed income transactions as agent on behalf of institutional clients, and they commit capital on behalf of its clients when needed. The Electronic Execution Services segment offers access via its electronic agency-based platforms to markets and self-directed trading in equities, equity options, fixed income, foreign exchange and futures contracts. The Corporate and Other segment invests in strategic financial services-oriented opportunities, allocates, deploys and monitors all capital, and maintains corporate overhead expenses and all other income and expenses that are not attributable to the other segments. The company was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in Jersey City, NJ.

Founded in 1922, Weeden & Co. LP is a broker/dealer headquartered in Greenwich, Connecticut with additional offices in Boston, Chicago, Minneapolis and San Francisco. The firm offers a full array of investment services with independent value-added research covering various sectors. Weeden's research goal is to produce independent, actionable long/short ideas that are free from the inherent conflicts created by investment banking. The firm vigilantly monitors proprietary, quantitative and fundamental indicators across all asset classes to identify and communicate important inflection points within the marketplace to clients. Their equities trading division specializes in difficult-to-execute orders. They are a member of the FINRA, NASDAQ and the SIPC.

Interactive Data Holdings Corp. provides financial market data, analytics and related solutions. The company was founded on April 30, 2010 and is headquartered in Bedford, MA.

Armada Water Assets, Inc. engages in the collection, handling, transport, treatment and reuse of contaminated water. It operates through four segments: Texas Water Logistics, Colorado Water Treatment and Disposal, Colorado Water Logistics and Corporate. The company’s services include fluids transport, water sale, water treatment, subsurface disposal and water logistics. Armada Water Assets was founded on October 23, 2012 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

Duke University is an academic university that offers undergraduate, graduate and professional programs. It also has publications and research services. The university was founded in 1838 and is headquartered in Durham, NC.

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.

APX, Inc. provides innovative technology and service solutions to the energy and environmental markets. Its services include spans transaction management, registries, scheduling, settlements, demand-side management, asset control, analytics, operations, exchanges, clearing, and brokerage. The company was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

The New York Mercantile Exchange, Inc. provides markets for the trading and clearing of crude and heating oil, gasoline, natural gas, and electricity. The company is headquartered in New York, NY.

Common Fund is an independent asset management firm that manages $22.60 billion in assets for around 1,300 institutional clients. Common Fund was founded in 1971 and is based in Wilton, CT. The private company specializes in investment management and is active in all sectors of the capital markets, serving a broad spectrum of investors, including nonprofit organizations, healthcare organizations, family offices, and pension plans. The company also has subsidiaries in Canada, United States, United Kingdom, Cayman Islands, and China. The Investment Stewardship Academy is a workshop for investment professionals to learn and apply skills and knowledge for stewarding long-term capital.

Cross Match Technologies, Inc. develops biometric identity management solutions. It offers authentication and verification solutions, ten-print and palm print live scan solutions for enrollment, identification, and forensic analysis; portable and handheld identity management solutions designed for a range of users, applications, and environments; and software development kits for end-users, developers, and integrators. The company was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Palm Beach Gardens, FL.

Automated Trading Desk LLC develops systems and software for automated trading. The company was founded by David K. Whitcomb and Steven Dean Swanson in 1988 and is headquartered in Mount Pleasant, SC.

Mergermarket Ltd. provides forward-looking merger and acquisition news and intelligence services. The firm offers predictive intelligence, analysis, deals database, and private equity portfolio. It also provides active analysis of corporate strategy before it becomes public knowledge and a historical deals database to analyze past deals. The company was founded by Caspar J. A. Hobbs, Charlie Juxon Welsh, and Gawn William Rowan Hamilton on November 18, 1999 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Warburg Pincus & Company US LLC engages in the provision of investment services. The company is headquartered in New York, NY.

EBS Group Ltd. provides FX and precious metals transactional trading & data solutions to trading professionals and organizations. Its clients include JP Morgan, RBS, The Bank of New York, DBS, Minex, RBC Capital Markets, ABN-AMRO, Bank of America, SEB, State Street, Citi Group, Lehman Brothers, SG Corporate & Investment Banking and Barclays. The company was founded in 1991 and is located in London, UK.

The Financial Accounting Foundation is a non-profit organization that administers, finances, and appoints financial and governmental accounting standards boards. The non-profit company is based in Norwalk, CT.

Cantor Fitzgerald LP provides brokerage services. It offers capital market, investment banking and portfolio business services. The company was founded in 1945 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Part of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., Aron & Co., Inc. is a commodities trading company. The company is based in New York, NY.

The Economist Newspaper Ltd. engages in the publication of financial journals, magazines and online publications. It operates thorugh the following brands: The Economist brand family, EuroFinance, BrandConnect, Ideas People Media, TVC, and Signal Noise. The company was founded by James Wilson in 1843 and is headquartered in London, The United Kingdom.

Silver Lake Management Co. LLC (Silver Lake Management) is a private equity firm, a subsidiary of Silver Lake Group LLC founded in 1999 by Jim Davidson and David Roux. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California with offices in San Francisco, New York, London, Hong Kong and Singapore.

NYSE Blue, Inc. provides innovative technology and service solutions to the energy and environmental markets. The company was founded on February 22, 2011 and is headquartered in Hoboken, NJ.

Allvue Systems Holdings, Inc. engages in the provision of cloud-based software for investment managers in the private capital and credit markets industry. The company was founded on March 19, 2021 and is headquartered in Coral Gables, FL.

Girls Who Invest, Inc. is a Non-Profit Organization. It focuses to increase women in portfolio management and executive leadership in asset management industry. The company was founded by Seema Hingorani in 2015 and is headquartered in New York, NY.