Carla N. Cooper

Part of KeyCorp, McDonald & Co. Investments, Inc. is a company that provides investment advisory, investment banking, and brokerage services. The company is based in Cleveland, OH. McDonald & Co. Investments was acquired by KeyCorp on October 26, 1998 for $584.77 million.

Thornburg Investment Management, Inc. (Thornburg) is a privately-held, SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The firm was founded by H. Garrett Thornburg in 1982. Thornburg provides discretionary portfolio management and investment services to several client types, which includes Thornburg Investment Trust, registered investment companies as to which Thornburg is a sub-adviser, separate accounts for institutional clients and private clients, wrap fee accounts of sponsored program accounts, unified managed account programs, private investment funds and other non-SEC registered investment vehicles.

Citibank NA engages in the provision of banking services. It offers retail and commercial banking; credit cards; banking, capital markets, and advisory; markets and securities services; private banking; and treasury and trade solutions. The company was founded on June 16, 1812 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Wedbush Securities, Inc. is a full-service investment bank and brokerage firm headquartered in Los Angeles, California. The firm was founded in 1955 as Wedbush Morgan Securities, Inc. They are a subsidiary of Wedbush Financial Services LLC, which is owned by Wedbush, Inc. Wedbush Securities provides a wide range of securities brokerage, wealth management, and investment banking services to private and institutional clients. Their research focuses on providing coverage of small and mid-sized companies in the following industries: (1) consumer products and services (2) technology (3) entertainment and media (4) life sciences and (5) industrial growth and clean technology.

Longbow Research LLC is an independent investment research firm headquartered in Independence, Ohio. The firm was founded by David S. MacGregor in 2003 to provide the institutional equity research market with a high quality, independent product, free from the many conflicts of interest that plague bulge-bracket research. Longbow Research provides insights and research coverage on publicly-traded mid-cap companies in the industrial/basic materials, consumer and technology sectors.

Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management Co. provides investment advice. The company was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Milwaukee, MI.

Citelighter, Inc. provides academic research platform that finds, captures, organizes and cites information on the web. It allows students and researchers to save, organize and automatically cite online or offline information throughout the duration of the writing process and store content privately or aggregate it by topic to be shared with the community via knowledge cards. The company was founded by Mohammed Saad Alam and Robert Lee Jokl in June 2011 and is headquartered in Baltimore, MD.

emocha Mobile Health, Inc. provides mobile health technology services. It offers mobile health platforms for patient engagement and medication adherence. The firm's miDOT, an application that improves medication adherence and links patients to care, and outbreak monitoring systems for public health officials that enable them to conduct active and direct-active monitoring of people. The company was founded by Morad Elmi, Sebastian Seiguer, Gorkem Sevinc and Jeffrey Daley in 2008 and is headquartered in Baltimore, MD.

Grant Thornton LLP provides accounting, tax and business consulting services. It offers advisory, business consulting, business risk, enterprise technology and innovation, transaction services, data analytics, cyber risk, and data integrity services. The firm serves the construction, real estate and hospitality, consumer and industrial products, energy, financial services, health care and life sciences, not for profit organizations, private equity, public sector, and technology industries. The company was founded in 1924 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Robert W. Baird & Co., Inc. operates as a wealth management, capital markets, private equity and asset management firm. It offers equity research, corporate restructuring, mergers and acquisitions, public financing and fixed income services. The firm serves individual, corporate, institutional and municipal clients. The company was founded by Robert Wilson Baird in 1919 and is headquartered in Milwaukee, WI.

The Chamber of Lawrence provides tools and resources to build, sustain and grow the business. The firm’s programs include metropolitan E-community, leadership Lawrence and government & community affairs. The company was founded on December 12, 1878 and is headquartered in Lawrence, KS.

Robert W. Baird & Co., Inc. (Private Banking) (RWBCI) is the wealth management division of Robert W. Baird & Co., Inc., an employee-owned capital markets, asset management and private equity firm headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The firm was founded in 1919 and is a subsidiary of Baird Financial Corp., ultimately held by Baird Financial Group, Inc. RWBCI offers investment management services to all types of current or prospective clients, which include, but not limited to: individuals, trusts, estates, Retirement Accounts, pension and profit-sharing plans, charitable organizations, and corporations or other business entities.

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

Part of Allenby Capital Ltd., Sanlam Securities UK Ltd. is a specialist asset manager within the Sanlam group. Sanlam Securities UK Ltd. is based in London, UK. Sanlam Securities was acquired by Allenby Capital Ltd. from Sanlam Ltd. on March 10, 2016. The British company manages over £5.4bn in an innovative range of equity, fixed income, and multi-asset strategies. The company was founded in 1984. Jonathan Charles Polin has been the CEO of the company since 2015.

Investec Bank Plc (Broker) (IBP) is the brokerage arm of Investec Bank Plc, itself a subsidiary of Investec Plc (LON: INVP) in Great Britain. Headquartered in London, IBP was founded in 1950 and they offer a full spectrum of brokerage services specifically tailored for corporate clients.

University of the Pacific is a nationally ranked university with a long tradition of dedicated teaching, small class sizes, practical experience and vibrant residential life. The breathtaking main campus in Stockton, California is home to seven schools and colleges, with more than 80 majors and programs of study. Pacific also has the McGeorge School of Law in Sacramento and the Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry in San Francisco. Total university enrollment is nearly 7,000, with 3,757 undergraduates in an average class size of 19 and a student/faculty ratio of 14:1. It is located in Stockton, California.

Part of Deloitte LLP (New York), Deloitte & Touche LLP UK provides financial advisory and accounting services. The company is based in Edinburgh, UK.

Piper Sandler & Co. operates as an investment company, which engages in the provision of securities brokerage and investment banking services. The company is headquartered in Minneapolis, MN.

The National W Club, Inc. operates as a membership organization which engages in civic, social or fraternal activities. It provides opportunities for members to stay connected to former teammates, the school and the heritage of being a former Badger Athlete. The company was founded in 1949 and is headquartered in Madison, WI.

NextGen Venture Partners LLC (NextGen Venture Partners) is a venture capital firm, a subsidiary of Brown Advisory Inc, founded in 2011 by Daniel Mindus and Grant Allen. The firm is headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland.

Link Labs, Inc. develops wireless communicating devices with low power consumption. Its products include Internet of Things (IoT) modules, Lora-enabled M2M gateway, symphony link network tester, symphony link development kit, conductor IoT data platform, Lora system software, and ensemble. The company was founded by Brian Ray in 2014 and is headquartered in Annapolis, MD.

Nicolet National Bank engages in the provision of commercial banking services. It offers personal and banking services. The firm operates branches in Northeast and Central Wisconsin and the upper peninsula of Michigan. The company was founded by Robert Bruc Atwell in 2000 and is headquartered in Green Bay, WI.