Emily R. Kasparov

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP provides legal services. The firm specializes in corporate, financial services, litigation, real estate, commercial finance, intellectual property, trusts and estates, antitrust, bankruptcy, international trade, employee benefits and executive compensation, employment, environmental, public finance and tax. The company was founded in 1974 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

NASDAQ OMX BX, Inc. provides securities exchange services. It offers electronic and floor-based trading solutions to financial firms, dealers, investment institutions and listed public companies. The firm’s products include automated price improvement; Boston Exchange automated communication and order-routing network, BEACON REMOTE and execution quality report. The company was founded in 1834 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

InspereX LLC is a broker/dealer firm headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. The firm was founded by Thomas S. Rickets and Joe Rickard in 1999 as Incapital LLC. They are a subsidiary of InpereX Holdings LLC. InspereX provides market participants cloud-tech tools and market-linked product education to better execute their trading strategies and manage their portfolios.

Nasdaq ISE LLC operates equity and trading options exchange. It transformed the options industry by creating efficient markets through innovative market structure and technology. It provides investors with a transparent marketplace for price and liquidity discovery on centrally cleared options products. The company was founded by David Krell in May 2000 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Putnam Investments LLC operates as an investment advisory company. The company was founded on May 14, 2009 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

ConvergEx, Inc. provides mission-critical proprietary software products. It provides products and services through two business segments: Investment Technologies and Investment Services. The Investment Technologies segment develops, markets and sells the company's proprietary software products, including workflow automation solutions, and technology-enabled services. The Investment Services segment utilizes many of the same proprietary software products and technology-enabled services. The company was founded on March 17, 2011 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

NYSE Chicago, Inc. offers technology based national securities exchange services. It provides business to transact in all equity securities traded on NYSE, AMEX, NASDAQ, or other national securities exchanges. CHX acts as a venue for hedge funds, options market markers, quantitative, professional and active individual traders that require immediate and automated execution. The firm provides services through its technology products including CHXBD, CHX SHARE and SNAP. The company was founded in 1882 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Kirkland & Ellis LLP provides legal services. It counsels clients in litigation, corporate and tax, intellectual property and restructuring matters. The firm offers intellectual property, antitrust and competition, international trade and national security, real estate and tax, benefits and estate planning services. The company was founded in 1909 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Herc Rentals, Inc. provides equipment rental services. Its products include electrical tools, trucks, trailers, lawn and garden, pumping, material handling, and aerial equipment. The firms services include used equipment sales solutions, account management, safety training, and credit application. The company was founded in 1965 and is headquartered in Bonita Springs, FL.

Cboe Exchange, Inc. provides options exchange services. It trades equity options, security index options, options on exchange traded notes and products, binary options, one-week and quarterly options, long-term equity anticipation securities options, and flexible exchange options. The firm also provides information on various stock and options trading strategies, options trading tools, stock and option quotes and data; and options information and education. Additionally, they offer access to product information, conference notices, portfolio management tools, and educational materials for institutional investors and products and strategies for advisors to protect client’s portfolios. The company was founded in 1973 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Jenner & Block LLC provides legal services. It focuses on mergers and acquisitions, securities, finance, private equity, real estate, tax, environmental, insurance, commercial law, technology, intellectual property, bankruptcy and reorganization, labor and employment, executive compensation, government contracts, health care and associations. The company was founded in 1914 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Chicago Board of Trade provides trade derivative facilities. It allows speculators throughout the world to interpret economic data, news, and other information. The company was founded on April 3, 1848 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

LiquidPoint LLC provides trading solutions for electronic option traders. It provides solutions by combining sophisticated trading tools with its commitment to order execution services and customer support. The firm also offers derivatives execution-management technology and brokerage services for equity, stock, and futures options. The company was founded by Anthony J. Saliba in 1999 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago provides banking and financial services. Its services include asset liability management, cash management, community investment and housing programs, letter of credit, liquidity and funding, and safekeeping. The firm also provides liquidity for home mortgage loans to members approved as participating financial institutions through the Mortgage Partnership Finance program. The company was founded in 1932 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

The Heritage Foundation provides research and educational services. Its mission is to formulate and promote conservative public policies based on the principles of free enterprise, limited government, individual freedom, traditional American values, and a strong national defense. The company was founded in 1973 and is headquartered in Washington, DC.

Stamos Capital Partners LP (Stamos Capital) is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor and fund-of-hedge funds manager headquartered in Menlo Park, California. The firm was founded by Peter S. Stamos in 2002 as Stamos Partners Capital Management LP. Stamos Capital provides advisory services to private investment funds (SCP Funds) and to high-net-worth individuals, family offices, colleges, foundations, endowments, trusts, and other clients.

FX Alliance LLC operates as a holding company with interest in providing electronic foreign exchange trading solutions. Its proprietary technology platform enables it to deliver reliable FX price discovery, trade execution and automation of pre-trade and post-trade transaction workflow with access to a deep pool of liquidity from banks and other liquidity providers. FX Alliance comprehensive suite of electronic FX trading products, including FX spot, FX forwards, FX swaps and non-deliverable forwards are used by asset managers, banks, broker-dealers, corporations, hedge funds, prime brokers and other institutions worldwide. The company's platform supports the over-the-counter trading of gold and silver on a spot, forward or swap basis and provides access to bank deposits. FX Alliance offers single point access to multiple execution mechanisms, including collaborative trading, request for stream, continuous streaming prices, and an anonymous electronic communication network, as well as execution mechanisms proprietary to specific liquidity providers. It offers institutional clients with 24-hour direct access, five days per week to the foreign exchange market, which is a liquid financial market. The company was founded on September 22, 2006 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Part of Rothschild & Co. The company is based in New York, NY. Continuation Holdings AG, L.F. Rothschild & Co., Inc. is a company that provides banking services.

Pacific Stock Exchange is a stock exchange. The private company is based in San Francisco, CA.

Sterling Stamos Private Equity (Stamos Capital) is a private equity firm subsidiary of Stamos Capital Partners LP founded in 2002. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Scott Balice was founded in 2003 by Lois Scott, President, and Dean Balice, Senior Managing Director. They are a Chicago-based, majority woman-owned, full service financial advisory firm providing financial advisory services to the largest governments, corporations and non-profits organizations in the U.S. Their firm has been involved with capital projects ranging in size from $500,000 to $20 billion and encompassing tax-exempt bonds, taxable bonds, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act initiatives, equity commitments, tax credits and derivative market structures. They have served on over $35 billion in bond transactions and have structured and priced $5.9 billion in swap transactions. In 2008 and 2009, they were ranked among the top 10 bond financial advisers in the country. These are the facts, but numbers alone do not adequately describe the true driving force of the company's business-the exceptional people who are fiercely dedicated to serving customer. They are a team comprised of the best people and keenest minds in the business with careers that have spanned decades at the highest levels of the finance industry, in the senior ranks of government and in the financial services industry. The company's professionals have been trained on Wall Street as investment bankers, lawyers, M&A advisers, and accountants, economists, rating agency analysts, arbitrage analysts and institutional advisers. Their professional diversity ensures expertise in a broad range of financial tools, increasingly of interest to government and corporate leaders looking to expand financial capacity improve delivery and transfer risk.

Broadhaven Capital Partners (Broadhaven Capital Partners) is a private equity subsidiary of Broadhaven Capital Partners LLC founded in 2009 by Gregory Allen Phillips and Gerard von Dohlen. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Kroll Bond Rating Agency, Inc. provides credit rating services. The firm also provides other banking and financial services. The entity was founded by Jules B. Kroll in 2010 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Corrum Capital Management LLC (Corrum Capital) is an independent private equity firm founded in 2013 by Jason Cipriani and Jonathan Mandle. The firm is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina.

AltX, Inc. develops an intelligence platform. It uses proprietary algorithms, big data, analytics, real time news, and event alerts. The company was founded by Samuel Hocking in 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Epoch Advisors LLC provides business consulting services. The private company is based in South Pasadena.

Matrix Executions Holdings LLC is a holding company that engages in trading workflow automation. The company is based in Chicago, IL and has subsidiaries in the United States. The CEO of the company is Jordan Naylor.