Akimitsu Hirai

Washington Capital Management, Inc. (WaCap) is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Seattle, Washington. Founded in 1977, WaCap provides both privately offered commingled pooled investment funds (including feeder funds) and separately managed accounts. The firm serves as an investment manager primarily for institutional investors and accounts, such as pension and profit-sharing plans, corporations, charitable organizations, and governmental entities.

Bailard, Inc. is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Foster City, California. The firm (formerly Bailard, Biehl and Kaiser prior to its re-naming in 2005) was founded in 1969 by three graduates of the Stanford Graduate School of Business. They are a wholly owned subsidiary of BB&K Holdings, Inc. Bailard provides investment advisory and financial planning services and offers single asset strategies to investors on a standalone basis. The firm manages separate accounts for institutional clients and provides advisory and sub-advisory services to pooled investment vehicles.

Financial Counselors, Inc. (do-business-as FCI Advisors) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Overland Park, Kansas. The firm was founded in 1966 and is a wholly owned subsidiary of FCI Holding Corp., which is wholly owned by MTC Holding Corp. FCI Advisors provides investment advisory services to individuals, investment companies, pension and profit-sharing plans, trusts, estates, charitable organizations, corporations, and other business entities. The firm also provides sub-advisory services for their affiliates The Midwest Trust Co. and Benefit Trust Co.

Sika Corp. supplies specialty chemical products and industrial materials for the construction industry markets including transportation, marine and automotive. Its product include concrete admixtures, specialty mortars, epoxies, structural strengthening systems, industrial flooring, sealants, adhesives, specialty acoustic and reinforcing materials. The company was founded in 1937 by Kaspar Winkler and is headquartered in Lyndhurst, NJ.

Part of Sika AG, Sika Ltd. is a manufacturer of resin floor solutions, including decorative epoxy resin flooring and hard-wearing flooring, suitable for various environments. The company is based in Welwyn Garden City, UK and was founded in 1927. The British company also produces specialty products for flooring, roofing, sealing & bonding, refurbishment, DIY, concrete, waterproofing, and the manufacturing industry. Additionally, they provide high-performance solutions for exterior applications on modular building components.

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP provides legal services. Its areas of practices include corporate, litigation, banking and credit, capital markets, mergers and acquisitions, real estate, private funds, intellectual property, restructuring and bankruptcy, and tax. The firm serves the energy, financial services, healthcare, insurance and reinsurance, technology, retail, defense, education and transportation industries. The company operates through its offices located in Beijing, Hong Kong, Houston, London, Los Angeles, New York, Palo Alto, São Paulo, Seoul, Tokyo and Washington, DC. Simpson Thacher & Bartlett was founded in 1884 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

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

Institute for Systems Biology operates as a nonprofit biomedical research organization. It develops a systems approach to characterize, predict, and manipulate state transitions in biological system. The company was founded by Leroy E. Hood, Ruedi Aebersold and Alan Aderem in 2000 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

Sika Deutschland GmbH engages in the development and production of sealing, bonding, damping, reinforcing and material protecting solutions for construction and industrial applications. It offers products for protection and repair of concrete, waterproofing, floor coating, fire protection, laminating, and corrosion protection. The company was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Stuttgart, Germany.

Liquid Plastics Ltd. develops and manufactures liquid roofing products. It offers technologically advanced coatings and membranes for the protection and waterproofing of roofs, walls and balconies, or hygiene control.The company was founded on June 20, 1961 and is headquartered in Preston, the United Kingdom.

Northwest Research Associates, Inc. provides geophysical science research services. It offers research services on solar and stellar physics, atmosphere and climate, electromagnetic wave propagation and fluid mechanics, and data assimilation and statistical signal processing. The firm also provides space weather indices, field observations in the Indian ocean, shoreline monitoring service, video metric systems, and coherent radio receiving system. The company was founded by Donald Delisi and Edward Fremouw in 1984 and is headquartered in Redmond, WA.

Golden Polindo Industries Pte Ltd. provides investment management services. The private company is based in Singapore, Singapore. and has subsidiaries in China.

Part of Sika AG, Incorez Ltd. is a British company that manufactures and wholesales chemical resins and polymers. The company is based in Preston, UK and was founded in 1986.

Everbuild Building Products Ltd offer a comprehensive range of sealants, adhesives and building chemical products that are widely used across many construction and associated industry sectors. At Everbuild they are passionate about the products they produce, they have always worked on the simple premise that Trade Users will only come back for good products, so that’s all they make! This simple philosophy combined with a commitment to invest in new product development and manufacturing infrastructure has seen Everbuild grow into the UK’s leading sealant, adhesive and building chemical brand with sales in excess of £60 million and customers in over 70 countries.

Financière Dry Mix Solutions SAS supplies dry-mix solutions for the construction industry. The company is headquartered in Paris, France.

Cembrit Group A/S is a Danish company that manufactures cement products. The private company is based in Aalborg, Denmark and has subsidiaries in Belgium. The company was founded in 2014. Harry Bosshardt has been the CEO of the company since 2022.

Swisspearl Group AG produces and supplies fiber cement products. The private company is based in Niederurnen, CH and has subsidiaries in the Europe and None regions. The CEO of the Swiss company is Harry Bosshardt.

Part of Sika AG, Sika Trocal GmbH is a German company that manufactures plastic sheets, foils, hoses and profiles. The company is based in Troisdorf, Germany. The company was founded in 1996. The CEO is Ludwig Prutscher.

Part of Emesta Holding AG, EMS-CHEMIE AG is a Swiss global company that operates in the High Performance Polymers and Specialty Chemicals industries. The company is consolidated under EMS-CHEMIE HOLDING AG and specializes in metal and glass replacement for high-quality applications in both industrial and consumer goods.

Part of Golden Polindo Industries Pte Ltd., Suzhou Kunlene Film Industries Co. Ltd. is a company that manufactures paper, coated and laminated packaging films. The company is based in Suzhou, China. Henry Halim has been the CEO of the Chinese company since 2001.