Alex Gannon

Ares Secondaries Group (Ares Secondaries) is a private equity subsidiary of Ares Holdings LP founded in 1989 by Brent R.Nicklas. The firm is headquartered in Simsbury, Connecticut.

Ares Management Corp (Ares Management) is a private equity firm, a subsidiary of Ares Capital Management LLC founded in 1997 by Michael J Arougheti. The firm is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

Highland Capital Partners LLC (Highland Capital Partners) is a venture capital firm is founded in 1987 by Paul A. Maeder and Bob F. Higgins. The firm is headquartered in Cambridge, US.

Citigroup Private Equity LP (Citigroup Private Equity) a Private Equity firm, a subsidiary of Citigroup Alternative Investments LLC founded in 1997. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Private Equity Investors, Inc. (PEI) is a private equity firm founded in 1992 by Chuck Stetson, Rind Kenneth and David Parshall. The firm is headquartered in New York.

RLJ Equity Partners LLC(RLJ Equity Partners) is a private equity subsidiary of RLJ Companies, founded by Robert L. Johnson and The Carlyle Group in 2006. The firm is headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland.

KKR Group Co., Inc. engages in the provision of investment and private equity asset management services. The firm manages investments across multiple asset classes including private equity, energy, infrastructure, real estate, credit, and hedge funds. It operates through the Asset Management and Insurance segments. The Asset Management segment includes investment management and other services to funds, vehicles, collateral loan obligations, managed accounts and portfolio companies, and transaction-specific income from capital markets transactions. The Insurance segment offers retirement and life insurance services which provide a suite of protection, legacy and savings products to customers and reinsurance solutions to clients across individual and institutional markets. The company was founded by Henry R. Kravis and George R. Roberts in 1976 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Wells Fargo Securities LLC (WFS) is the broker/dealer subsidiary of EVEREN Capital Corp., ultimately owned by Wells Fargo & Co. (NYSE: WFC). Headquartered in New York, WFS delivers a comprehensive suite of banking, capital markets and advisory solutions, such as a full complement of sales, trading and research capabilities, to corporate, government and institutional clients.

Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, Inc. (MLPF&S) is a global investment banking firm, SEC-registered investment advisor, broker-dealer, and futures commission merchant headquartered in New York City. The firm is a subsidiary of BAC North America Holding Co., ultimately held by Bank of America Corp. (NYSE: BAC). MLPF&S provides investment advisory services to individuals, trusts, estates, charitable organizations, banks, insurance companies, thrift institutions, pension and profit-sharing plans, corporations and other types of business.

Arctos Partners LP (Arctos Sports) is a private equity firm founded in 2019. Arctos Partners LP is headquartered in Dallas, Texas.

Coin Metrics, Inc. is an investment research and holding firm headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The firm was co-founded by Timothy “Tim” Rice and Nicolas “Nic” Carter in 2017 as an open-source project to determine the economic significance of public blockchains. Coin Metrics provides crypto financial intelligence, network data, market data, index and network risk solutions to institutions touching crypto assets.

Eaglebrook Advisors, Inc. is a financial advisory firm that provides independent financial advisors with access to bitcoin and digital assets through their proprietary separately managed account (SMA) platform. The company is based in Miami, FL. The company has partnered with invest and Bitwise to offer actively managed digital asset investment portfolios to RIAs and institutions. Franklin Templeton has also partnered with Eaglebrook to offer passively and actively managed digital asset investment portfolios to RIAs and institutions. The portfolios will be SMAs utilizing models provided by Franklin Templeton to Eaglebrook on a non-discretionary basis. The company was founded in 2019. The CEO is Christopher King.

Castle Island Management LLC (Castle Island Management) is a venture capital firm founded in 2018 by Matthew Walsh and Nic Carter. The firm is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.