Brandon M. Brooks

Truist Securities, Inc. is a registered broker-dealer headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. The firm was founded in 1894 as SunTrust Robinson Humphrey, Inc. In 2020, the firm was renamed following the integration of SunTrust Robinson Humphrey and BB&T Capital Markets. The firm is a subsidiary of Truist Financial Corp. (NYSE: TFC) and is an active market maker in equity and fixed-income products. Truist Securities delivers a comprehensive range of strategic advisory, capital raising, risk management, and financing solutions, as well as a dynamic suite of sales, trading, and research services in both fixed-income and equity. Their strategies are carefully tailored to meet the needs and vision of their clients.

Librato, Inc. provides solutions for monitoring and understanding the metrics. It offers metrics a monitoring as a service platform that allows user to store, visualize, and create alerts for various time series data. The company was founded by Michael A. Heffner, Fred van den Bosch, Srinidhi Varadarajan, Arun J. Bangalore, Daniel Stondin, Joseph F. Ruscio and Nikolas Wekwerth in 2002 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Kelso & Co LP (Kelso) is a private equity firm is founded in 1971 by Louis Kelso. The firm is headquartered in New York, US.

RBC Capital Markets LLC is a full-service brokerage and financial services firm headquartered in New York City. They are a direct subsidiary of RBC USA Holdco Corp. and a wholly-owned indirect subsidiary of Royal Bank of Canada (TSE, NYSE: RY). Founded in 2010, the firm is comprised of 3 major business lines: the Private Client Group, the Fixed-Income Group and the Clearing and Execution Services Group. The Private Client Group serves individual investors, while the Fixed-Income Group provides services to institutions, municipalities and non-profit organizations. The Clearing and Execution Services Group is a provider of clearing and execution services to independent brokers/dealers throughout the US. RBC Capital Markets focuses on the following sectors: communications, media, consumer/retail, diversified industries, energy, financial institutions, forest products, healthcare, infrastructure finance, mining & metals, real estate, social infrastructure, technology and the US municipal markets.

Wolfe Research LLC is a FINRA-registered sell-side research firm headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded by Edward Wolfe in 2008 and is a subsidiary of Wolfe Holdco LLC. Wolfe Research provides bespoke research of various stocks in every major GIC sector for institutional clients. The firm has established a reputation for macro research underpinning coverage in Industrials, Utilities/Energy, Consumer/Retail, Financials/REITS, Healthcare and TMT.

Life Technologies Corp. provides products in the areas of scientific research, genetic analysis and applied sciences. Its brands include Invitrogen, Applied Biosystems, Gibco, Molecular Probes, Noves, Ambion and Ion Torrent. The firm’s portfolio includes the most cited products and technologies in qPCR, capillary electrophoresis sequencing, nextgeneration sequencing, molecular diagnostics, forensics, cell culture and analysis, and agriculture research. The company was founded on November 21, 2008 and is headquartered in Carlsbad, CA.

Biotherapeutics, Inc. operates as a pre-clinical stage company which develops small-molecule drugs to treat inflammation and type 2 diabetes. Its scientific foundation is anchored on informatics and computer modeling-enabled drug development with significant animal pharmacology validation. The company was founded by Josep Bassaganya-Riera in 2008 and is headquartered in Blacksburg, VA.

Evermay Wealth Management LLC is an independent registered investment advisor headquartered in Arlington, Virginia. The firm was founded in 2008 by Will Pitt, Damon White and Biljana McKinley. Evermay provides investment supervisory services on both a discretionary and non-discretionary basis to individuals, high net worth individuals, corporations, pension and profit-sharing plans, and trusts and estates.

Preqin Ltd. provides online database services, publications, and research reports for the alternative assets industry. The firm provides data and information on the private equity, real estate, hedge fund, infrastructure, private debt, and natural resources asset classes encompassing the following areas: funds and fundraising, performance, fund managers, institutional investors, deals, and fund terms. The company was founded by Alfred Louis Mark O'Hare in 2003 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Brown Advisory LLC is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland. The firm is a subsidiary of Brown Advisory Management LLC and their ultimate parent is Brown Advisory, Inc. The firm was founded and launched in 1993 as an investment management division of Alex. Brown & Sons, a Baltimore-based investment bank founded in 1800. In 1998, they became independently owned through an employee-led buyout. Brown Advisory provides investment management services to individuals and institutions.

Huron River Venture Partners LLC (Huron River Venture) is a venture capital firm founded in 2010 by Ryan Waddington and Tim Streit. The firm is headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

RDL Financial, Inc., do business as Wolf Group Capital Advisors (WGCA), is an independent SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Fairfax, Virginia. The firm was founded in 1996 and is owned by Robert D. Len, Leonard S. Wolf, and Charles K. Verruggio. WGCA provides investment advisory and financial planning services to individuals, high net-worth individuals and trusts.

LegalNet Works, Inc. provides program management, risk management, and security governance. The firm covers the development of surveys and the collection and analysis of data on data management and security topics. It specializes in offering director and officer due diligence requirements for security and risk management services, security and privacy assessments in accordance with federal regulations, developments in operational risk management, and vendor management standards and guidelines for IT outsourcing. The company was founded by Lee M. Zeichner in May 1996 and is headquartered in Arlington, VA.

VitriVax, Inc. is a biotechnology company based in Boulder, CO that partners with vaccine developers to create thermostable vaccines that can be delivered in a single shot. The company's proprietary atomic layering thermostable antigen and adjuvant (alta™) technology platform enables vaccines to be shipped ly without refrigeration or freezing, last for years on the shelf, and only require one patient interaction to deliver multiple doses. The alta™ technology can be applied to a wide variety of vaccine antigens and adjuvants to protect against thermal and chemical degradation and enable controlled release, incorporating prime doses and additional booster doses in a single-shot administration. The company was founded by Robert Garcea and Theodore Randolph, and the CEO is Matthew Raider.

Codagenix, Inc. provides platform technology to construct viral vaccines against multiple targets. It focuses on SAVE platform technology that utilizes computer-based rational design of viral genomes for the design and construction of vaccines for a range of medically important human diseases. The company was founded by J. Robert Coleman, Eckard Wimmer, Charlie Petty and Steffen Mueller in 2009 and is headquartered in Farmingdale, NY.

Curevo, Inc. is a clinical stage company based in South Korea that aims to bring next generation vaccines to the market quickly and efficiently. The company is based in Seattle, WA. The company's partners include Mogam Institute for Biomedical Research and GC Pharma. Curevo is currently in phase 2 of a shingles study to evaluate the safety, tolerability, and immunogenicity of their vaccine. The company's goal is to reduce the burden of infectious disease with a focus on safe and highly effective shingles and varicella vaccines. Curevo was founded in 2018, and the CEO is George Simeone.

Adjuvant Capital LP (Adjuvant Capital) is a private equity and venture capital firm founded in 2018 by Glenn Rockman, Kabeer Aziz and Charlie Petty. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Eldridge Industries LLC (Eldridge Industries) is a venture capital/private equity firm founded in 2015 by Duncan Bagshaw, Todd L. Boehly and Tony Minella. The firm is headquartered in Greenwich, Connecticut.

Cowboy Clean Fuels LLC is an emerging renewable energy technology company based in Wyoming. Cowboy Clean Fuels utilizes non-producing coal bed methane wells and infrastructure to produce renewable natural gas from agricultural byproducts through a naturally-occurring biogenic process. This process also results in permanent sequestration of CO2 in deep, geologic formations. The American company's proprietary and patented technology was developed by Dr. Michael Urynowicz, who is the co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of the company. The leadership team of Cowboy Clean Fuels has over 100 years of experience in clean energy technology commercialization, upstream gas operations, and large-scale energy project development. The company was founded in 2020 by Noah Yates, Michael Urynowicz, Rob Garland, Douglas Bottrell, and Ryan Waddington, with Ryan Waddington serving as the CEO since then.

Halo Diagnostics LLC provides healthcare services. The company is headquartered in Ann Arbor, MI.

Third Bridge Group Ltd. provides information about investment opportunities to private equity firms, hedge funds and strategy consultants. The firm offers Third Bridge Connections, Forum and Intelligence. It also offers consultations, interview transcripts and market intelligence reports that provide insights into companies and markets. The company was founded by Rodolphe de Hemptinne and Emmanuel Tahar in 2007 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Sole Source Capital LLC (Sole Source Capital) is a private equity firm founded in 2016 by David Fredston. The firm is headquartered in Dallas, Texas.