Peter James DeCaprio

Founded in 1932, Evergreen Investment Management Co., Inc. is a registered investment advisor headquartered in Boston. The firm is a subsidiary of Wells Fargo & Co. (NYSE: WFC). Evergreen provides services to the institutional marketplace including retirement plans, endowments, foundations and provides specialty applications for insurance companies, government entities and corporations. They offer a broad range of domestic, international and emerging markets equity, fixed-income and alternative investment strategies. Their products include mutual funds, institutional portfolios, alternative investments and separately managed accounts.

Founded in 2006 by Timothy O'Brien and Peter DeCaprio, Crow Point Partners LLC is a registered investment advisor located in Hingham, Massachusetts. The firm provides portfolio management services to registered investment companies or mutual funds, hedge funds and other private investment funds, high net-worth individuals and other US and international institutions.

Thomas Weisel Asset Management LLC was engaged in the provision of a variety of U.S. equity investment products, distribution management services, and private equity and venture capital funds. The company was founded in 2001 and was headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

TIAA-CREF Investment Management LLC (TCIM) is a registered investment advisor headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1997 and is a wholly-owned subsidiary of TIAA-CREF Asset Management LLC, ultimately owned by TIAA Board of Governors. TCIM provides investment management and certain administrative services necessary for the operation of the College Retirement Equities Fund (CREF), a diversified open-end registered investment management company that consists of eight accounts, that issues individual, group and tax-deferred variable annuity contracts.

Crow Point Global Dividend Plus Fund is a closed-end and non-diversified management investment. It engages in the provision of high level of income while simultaneously seeking capital preservation. The company was founded on February 23, 2015 and is headquartered in Hingham, MA.