René Marc Kern

Bain & Co., Inc. provides management consulting services. It offers advisory services to the companies on their critical issues and opportunities: strategy, marketing, organization, operations, technology and mergers and acquisitions, across all industries and geographies. The company was founded in 1973 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

iSOFT Group Plc develops hardware and software solutions for hospitals and other health care organizations. The company's i.Series software suite includes applications for managing patient information, private hospital patient and clinical information, laboratory records, pharmacy operations and referrals. It's LORENZO system processes clinical and administrative health care information for doctor's offices, hospitals and health care networks. iSOFT Group is located at Banbury, UK.

Founded in 1998, MSCI is an investment research firm headquartered in New York City. The firm is a subsidiary of MSCI, Inc. (NYSE: MSCI). The firm was originally formed and operated by Morgan Stanley. In 2004, MSCI acquires Barra, a leading provider of portfolio and firm wide investment risk management systems and services. As part of this transaction, MSCI also acquired Financial Engineering Associates (FEA), a firm specializing in energy derivatives modeling. MSCI They became independent of Morgan Stanley in 2009. In 2010, MSCI acquired RiskMetrics and its subsidiary Institutional Shareholder Services, expanding MSCI's risk management offerings and moving into corporate governance and the ESG space. Also in 2010, the firm acquired Measurisk, a leading provider of independent risk transparency and risk measurement tools for hedge fund investors. MSCI provides investment decision support tools to over 5,000 clients worldwide, ranging from large pension plans to boutique hedge funds. They offer a variety of products and services including indices, portfolio risk and performance analytics and governance tools.

Riskmetrics Group LLC provides financial risk management services. The firm provides financial analytics and wealth management solutions to different financial institutions, corporations and central banks. It consists of three primary business units–risk management, governance services and financial research. The company was founded by Ethan M. Berman in 1994 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Intec Telecom Systems Ltd. provides operational support system and business support system software to the telecommunications industry. The company was founded on February 22, 2000 and is headquartered in Woking, the United Kingdom.

BM&FBovespa SA organizes, develops and provides systems for the trading of equities, derivates, fixed income securities, federal government securities, financial derivates, spot foreign exchange and agricultural commodities. It operates its business through the following segments: Bovespa, BM&F, and Institutional & Corporate Products. The Bovespa segment offers various mechanisms and tools for trading of fixed and variable income securities on stock and over the counter markets. The BM&F segment covers the main steps of the cycles of trading and settlement of securities and contracts. The segment also includes the trading of commodities, foreign exchange, public debt, and services provided by Banco BM&F and the Brazilian Commodities Exchange. The Institutional & Corporate Products segment provides services such as depository of securities, as well as lending and listing of securities, data services and classification of commodities, and technological products. The company was founded on May 8, 2008 and is headquartered in São Paulo, Brazil.

The Greenwich Academy, Inc. provides educational services. The company was founded in 1827 and is located in Greenwich, CT.

MSCI ESG Research is an investment research firm headquartered in New York City. The firm is a subsidiary of MSCI, Inc. (NYSE: MSCI). The firm provides in-depth research, ratings and analysis of the environmental, social and governance-related business practices of thousands of companies worldwide. MSCI ESG Research builds on the expertise and achievements of sustainability pioneers KLD, Innovest and IRRC, acquired through MSCI's acquisition of RiskMetrics.