Mary T. Keller

First Light Asset Management LLC (First Light) is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in Edina, Minnesota. The firm was founded in 2013 by Matthew Arens and Brett Johnson. First Light provides discretionary advisory services to individuals, high-net worth individuals, institutional clients, pension plans or profit-sharing plans, corporations, and charitable organizations on a discretionary basis through separately managed accounts.

Sunstates Corp. operates as a real estate management and development company. Its also offers property and insurance services. The company operates in four segments which include Insurance, Manufacturing, Real Estate, Equity Investees and Corporate & Other. The company was founded in 1988 and is headquartered Raleigh, NC.

Digi-Key Corp. distributes electronic components. It also distributes semiconductors, discrete, electromechanical parts. Its products include audio products, batteries, cable assemblies, capacitors, computer & video accessories, connectors, crystals & oscillators, discrete semiconductor products and many more. The company was founded by Ronald A. Stordahl in 1972 and is headquartered in Thief River Falls, MN.

Kidder, Peabody & Co., Inc. provides security brokerage services. The private company is based in Buffalo, NY and has subsidiaries in Switzerland. The company was founded by Thomas W. Ostrander.

Siemens Industry Software, Inc. engages in the development and provision of product lifecycle management software solutions. Its products include mechanical design, electrical and electronics development, software engineering, simulation and test, manufacturing planning, factory automation, manufacturing operations, and performance analytics. The company is headquartered in Plano, TX.

Redwood Technology Ventures (Redwood Technology Ventures) is a venture capital subsidiary of Redwood Partners Ltd. founded in 1994 by Michael Flannery. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Torch Energy Advisors, Inc. offers oil and gas exploration, production, and other upstream and midstream services. The company was founded by James Perry Bryan on May 11, 1988 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

Teknos Associates LLC provides financial advisory services. The private company is based in Palo Alto, CA.

Pagemill Partners serves the global technology market, with as many as 1/3 of their transactions in a given year occurring on a cross-border basis. The company's strategic relationships built through years of active dialog have resulted in more than 160 closed transactions since 2005. Pagemill Partners is among the most active investment banks in the market. Pagemill Partners is a premier investment bank located in the heart of Silicon Valley, with a solid track record of completing successful transactions for technology and media companies. Specializing in merger and acquisition advisory, they have closed more than 160 transactions since 2005. The Pagemill Partners team works in close partnership with its clients to consistently achieve extraordinary outcomes through a combination of transaction experience, domain expertise, and personal commitment to the success and objectives of their clients and their shareholders. The company's bankers are highly experienced in Enterprise, infrastructure and application software, Semiconductors, Internet and media, Communications, Storage, Security, Technology-enabled services And many other technology sub-segments. The Pagemill Partners team is composed of a distinguished set of individuals and deal makers who have demonstrated excellence and leadership throughout their professional careers. The number and quality of their completed transactions speaks volumes about our experience, excellence and expertise.

Part of Quantum Corp., Certance Holdings Corp. is an American company that designs and manufactures computer storage devices. The company is based in CA.

WaveSplitter Technologies, Inc. is an independent provider of high-performance optical components and modules for system manufacturers worldwide seeking flexible, scalable technology platforms, advanced design capabilities, and extensive production capacity. The company develops, manufactures, and distributes fused fiber and planar lightguide circuit products, including pump laser combiners, optical channel interleavers, arrayed waveguide gratings, couplers, WDMs, and add/drop thin-film filters. Its technology platforms are designed to enable optical systems manufacturers and service providers to increase the capacity and reliability of their optical networks, extend the reach of optical signals in core networks and build flexible, scalable, and cost-effective metropolitan area networks. WaveSplitter was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Fremont, California with offices and manufacturing facilities in Taipei, Taiwan, and Shenzhen, China.

Jeffrey Slocum & Associates, Inc. operates as a investment research and advisory firm. It focuses on global fixed income, global equities, alternative investments, and direct hedge fund strategies. The firm offers strategic integration of investments with an institution’s overall mission, objectives, and operations, investment policy development, asset allocation modeling, incorporating liabilities, spending, and liquidity considerations, risk budgeting, liability driven investment, investment manager selection, performance measurement and attribution analysis, investment policy compliance monitoring, transition management, fee negotiations and benchmarking, other service provider searches, education of clients staffs, committees, and other constituencies. The company was founded by Jeffrey Charles Slocum in 1986 and is headquartered in Minneapolis, MN.

The Minnesota Orchestra provides support for the orchestra and promotes music education. Its association reaches 10,000 children and adults each year through its music education programs. The company was founded in 1903 and is headquartered in Minneapolis, MN.

Founded in 1987, Carlson Capital Management, Inc. is registered investment advisor located in Northfield, Minnesota. The firm's clients include high net-worth families and individuals, trusts and estates, charitable organizations, pension and profit sharing plans, and corporations or other business entities.

Schwab Charles & Co., Inc. engages in the provision of investment products and services to retirement and other benefit participants. It offers trading, banking, small business solutions, investment tools and research. The company was founded in 1971 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Ulland Investment Advisors LLC (UIA) is an independent registered investment advisor headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The firm was founded by James (Jim) Ulland in 1997 and changed its operating structure from a Corporation 100% owned by its founder to a Limited Liability Company (LLC) partnership with four partners in 2020. UIA provides investment supervisory services to high-net-worth clients and manages endowments, trusts, IRAs, rollover IRAs, 401ks, Family Limited Partnerships, and individual taxable accounts.

Leviathan Minerals Group, Inc. engages in the exploration, mining, processing, smelting, and marketing of tin. The company is headquartered in Jakarta, Indonesia.

Feltl & Co. is a securities brokerage and investment banking firm located in Minneapolis, Minnesota. They focus on emerging growth companies, primarily located in the Upper Midwest. They are comprised of two major business lines: the private client group serves individual investors, providing advice on stocks, the equity capital markets group encompasses corporate finance, equity research, institutional equity sales, and equity trading. They are a member of the NASD.

SMART Worldwide Holdings, Inc. designs, manufactures and supplies memory and embedded storage products. It offers flash memory cards, solid-state drives (SSDs), and DRAM modules for OEMs in the computer, defense, gaming, networking, and telecommunication sectors. The company was founded by Ajay B. Shah and Mukesh D. Patel on March 26, 2004 and is headquartered in Newark, CA.

U.S. Bank NA (Cincinnati Ohio Investment Management) (USB-IM) is the investment management division of U.S. Bank NA, a commercial bank headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The firm is ultimately held by the US Bancorp (NYSE: USB). USB-IM provides tailored investment management services to individuals and institutional investors.

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.