Matt W. Hankins

Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc. (DBSI) is a SEC-registered broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1971 and is a wholly-owned investment banking and brokerage arm of DB U.S. Financial Markets Holding Corp., ultimately held by Deutsche Bank AG (NYSE: DB, FRA: DBK) in Germany. DBSI provides securities brokerage and investment advisory services to domestic and international private clients and institutions. They are also a primary dealer in US government securities as designated by the Federal Reserve.

Victory Capital Management, Inc. (Investment Management) (Victory Capital-IM) is the investment management division of Victory Capital Management, Inc., a financial services company headquartered in San Antonio, Texas. The firm was founded in 1894 and formerly known as Key Asset Management, Inc. They are an indirect, wholly owned subsidiary of Victory Capital Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: VCTR). Victory Capital-IM provides specialized investment strategies to institutions, intermediaries, retirement platforms and individual investors.

Bitfusion.io, Inc. engages in development of hardware acceleration technologies. Its solutions include data driven organizations and computing class performance with a platform layer that features custom software, performance portable libraries, and hardware appliances to provide acceleration in the existing infrastructure without code recompile, application rewrite or specialized skills. The company was founded by Rama Subramanian, Mazhar Memon and Maciej Bajkowski in 2015 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

McKinsey & Co., Inc. provides management consulting services. It specializes in design, marketing and sales, analytics, operations, transformation and restructuring, risk, strategy and corporate finance, and sustainability and resource productivity. The company was founded by James O. McKinsey in 1926 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

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.

Intel Capital Corp (Intel Capital) is a venture capital subsidiary of Intel Corp founded in 1991 by Les Vadasz, and Avram Miller. The firm is headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware.

Barclays Capital, Inc. is a registered broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1997 and is a subsidiary of Barclays Group US, Inc., ultimately owned by Barclays plc (LON: BARC) in Great Britain. Barclays Capital provides large corporate, government and institutional clients a full spectrum of prime brokerage services which includes equities and fixed income financing, OTC Clearing, Futures and Foreign Exchange Prime Brokerage and access to industry insights and analytics from their Strategic Consulting team.

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

Council on Foreign Relations, Inc. provides and disseminates ideas on foreign policies to individuals, corporate members, journalists and policy makers. It operates a forum for government officials, students and other interested parties to study and discuss world issues and impact on American foreign policies. The company publishes Foreign Affairs, a magazine that comes out six times a year, along with books and studies by its own scholars. Council on Foreign Relations was founded in 1921 and is headquartered in New York City, NY.

Deloitte Consulting LLP provides business consulting services. It offers services related to public finance, public sector management, health and social protection, information technology, financial sector, and trade and investment. The company was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Shorelight Education LLC operates as an education firm that funds and manages the global universities to drive institutional growth, create new revenue streams, and expand options for students. The company was founded by Basil Cleveland and Thomas D. Dretler in 2013 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Brace Industrial Group, Inc. provides scaffolding, insulation, painting, coating and fire-proofing services to a variety of industrial clients. The firm serves the energy, petrochemical, manufacturing and agricultural sectors. It offers a compelling value proposition that combines proprietary equipment and services. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

Stratos manufactures cannabis, hemp and CBD-infused products. The firm offers go all in one vaporizer, shatterizer vaporizer, stratos energy dabtabs, stratos relax dabtabs, stratos sleep dabtabs, energy emulsion tincture, relax emulsion tincture, sleep emulsion tincture, renew tincture, energy tincture, relax tincture, sleep tincture, CBD tincture, soothe(ER), soothe 1: topical salve, CBD & THC tablets, stratos energy tablets, stratos relax and stratos sleep tablets. The company was founded by Jason Neely in 2014 and is headquartered in Pueblo West, CO.

Wolverine Venture Fund, an evergreen fund, invests in companies located in the United States. The fund targets companies operating in the fields of Saas, Biotech, Health tech, biomedicine, advanced materials and other emerging technologies. It provides financing for seed and early-stage capital requirements with an investment size of USD 0.05 - 0.10 million. It acts as a lead investor and makes follow-on investments.

Life Magnetics, Inc. was provided testing bacterial infections devices for antibiotics. The company was founded by Brandon H. McNaughton in 2009 and was headquartered in Ann Arbor, MI.

Aadya Security, Inc. develops and operates cyber security platform. It provides small and medium businesses and consumers with protection. The company is headquartered in Plymouth, MI.

Michigan Ross Zell Lurie Institute / Venture Capital/ (Zell Lurie Institute) is a venture capital subsidiary of Zell Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies Studies founded in 1997 by Samuel Zell, Ann Lurie and Robert H. Lurie. The firm is headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Resonant Venture Partners LLC (Resonant Venture Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 2010 by Michael Godwin and Jason Townsend. The firm is headquartered in Ann Arbor,Michigan.

The Chicago Bar Association is a voluntary membership organization consisting largely of lawyers and judges from Cook County and the state of Illinois. The private company is based in Chicago, IL and has subsidiaries in the United States. The association works to establish and maintain the honor and dignity of the profession of law, promote the welfare of its members, and improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the administration of justice. Founded in 1874, it is one of the oldest and most active metropolitan bar associations in the United States.

Fitch, Even, Tabin & Flannery LLP engages in intellectual property and technology-related law. Its services include copyrights, entertainment and media, parent post-issuance proceedings and trade secrets. The company was founded in 1859 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Stratus Materials, Inc. is a company based in Pittsburgh, PA that develops and produces novel, manganese-rich cathode active materials for lithium-ion batteries. The American company's mission is to disrupt the cam supply chain by offering materials with a game-changing combination of performance, safety, and cost. Stratus is primarily focused on cathode solutions for light- and medium-duty electric vehicles and other applications with similar requirements. The company's team has identified unique and proprietary formulations and methods to achieve outstanding electrochemical performance, energy density, and safety at very low costs. Stratus LXMO™ cathode materials are specifically designed to provide innovative cathode materials solutions that enable the EV revolution. The company was founded by Jared Mitchell, Wei Wu, and the CEO is Jay F. Whitacre.