Alexandre Harkous

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLC provides assurance, tax and advisory services. Its services include audit and assurance, consulting, deals, human resources, legal, tax, and family business. The firm also offers accountability, risk management, structuring, mergers and acquisitions, and performance and process improvement. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Buffalo, NY.

Credit Benchmark Ltd. provides credit risk data and analytics. It operates a contributed data model, focused on gathering credit risk information from the world’s major global banks. The firm also offers customized output and risk reports to highlight areas of interest for credit professionals. It calculates consensus credit risk data analytics for probability of default and loss given default at the entity level in the areas of sovereigns, corporates, and banks, as well as non-bank financials that include private equity, mutual funds, and hedge funds. It currently focuses on credit risk estimates produced by banks using the Internal Ratings-Based Approach. The company was founded by Donal Smith and Mark Faulkner in 2012 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Markit Securities Finance Analytics Ltd. engages in the provision of global securities finance data, tracking short selling, and institutional fund activity. The company was founded by Mark C. Faulkner on January 14, 1998 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

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

Allianz Global Investors GmbH (France) (AllianzGI-FR) is the French asset management division Allianz Global Investors GmbH, ultimately held by Allianz SE (ETR: ALV, ADR: AZSEY) in Germany. Formerly known as AGF Asset Management, the firm was founded in 1997 by AGF-Assurance Générale de France, and was acquired by Allianz in 1997. Headquartered in Paris, AllianzGI-FR offers a range of proprietary French and European investment products as well as international products managed by other Allianz Global Investors branches worldwide for their clients such as French private individuals, AGF Group insurance companies, corporations, institutions and financial services providers such as e-brokers and intermediaries. Commitment to sustainable development is part of the firm's corporate culture. They have been involved in SRI since 2003 and participate actively is several French SRI Initiatives.

Part of Deutsche Bank AG, DWS Group Services UK Ltd. is a company that provides asset management services. The company is based in London, UK and was founded in 1985.

Five Arrows Managers SAS (Five Arrows Managers) is a private equity subsidiary of Rothschild Merchant Banking founded in 2008. The firm is headquartered in Paris.

Five Arrows Managers (USA) LLC (Five Arrows Managers) is a private equity/venture capital subsidiary of Rothschild Merchant Banking founded in 2017. The firm is headquartered in New York with an office in Los Angeles.

RIMES Technologies Corp. engags in the provision of financial data. It offers managed data services and RegTech solutions. The company was founded by Christian Fauvelais and Frederic Mancuso in 1996 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Web Financial Group SA engages in the provision of web-based solutions. The firm specializes in the integration, presentation, and promotion of financial data and products to retail investors and professionals. The company was founded by Julio Bueso, Jesús Chomón, and Alejandro Bueso on January 21, 2000 and is headquartered in Madrid, Spain.

Wolters Kluwer Financial Services, Inc. provides comprehensive compliance, risk management, and audit solutions for the financial services industry. Its solutions include asset liability, performance, and complaint management, credit risk, employee compliance, tax reporting, sub ledger accounting, and data analytics. The company was founded in 1913 and is headquartered in Minneapolis, MN.

Part of BlackRock, Inc., Merrill Lynch Investment Managers LP is a private company that provides investment advisory services. The company is based in Plainsboro, NJ.

Pirum Systems Ltd. provides post-trade processing services. It provides advanced, centralised and secure services for financial market participants, utilising Internet technologies and the ASP (Application Service Provider) delivery model. The firm products and services include classic services that provide market participants with automated comparisons of the key financial details of their open contracts, monthly billing, and income claims; real-time services, which deliver new levels of automation and straight-through processing for marks, exposure, returns, and payments processing; tri-party automation services for covering the calculation, agreement, and submission of daily required collateral value to tri-party agents across various counterparties; and central counterparty (CCP) gateway services that enable customers to clear bilaterally agreed stock lending trades. The company was founded by Rupert Perry and Jeff Armstrong in June 2000 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Penta Group Europe Ltd. provides analysis and risk assessment services. It offers global content monitoring, alerting, and analytics system to the communications, corporate affairs, marketing, and risk and strategy functions. The company was founded by Alberto Lopez-Valenzuela, Alastair Pickering, and Richard Fleming on August 04, 2009 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc. engages in the provision of management and technology consulting services. Its services include consulting, analytics, digital solutions, engineering, cyber security, and product. The company was founded by Edwin G. Booz in 1914 and is headquartered in McLean, VA.

Part of Five Arrows Camwell II, Pirum Holdco Ltd. is a British company founded in 2015 that offers a comprehensive securities financing transactions regulation (SFTR) solution in partnership with IHS Markit to help firms with their chosen reporting path. The company is based in London, UK and aims to provide lower costs, greater efficiency, and reduced operational risk to its clients. Pirum already supports the industry with around 80% of the UTI flow across stock lending, repo, buy/sell backs and margin-lending transactions.

Part of Rothermere Continuation Ltd. (Jersey), Commodity Vectors Ltd. is a holding British company that provides sea and coastal freight water transportation services. The company is based in London, UK. Founded in 2012.

HSBC Continental Europe provides banking and asset management services. The firm offers corporate finance, treasury, capital markets, new issues and origination, and security services. The company was founded in 1894 and is headquartered in Paris, France.

CCBN.com, Inc. provides web-based solutions. Its services include Internet-based investor relations, webcast, corporate governance, document conversion, distribution, and fulfillment services. The firm StreetEvents service offers institutional and individual investors a solution for managing corporate disclosure information by aggregating conference calls, Webcasts, transcripts, call summaries and other financial information The company was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Nasuni Corp. provides cloud-integrated storage solutions. Its solutions include unified file storage, backup, disaster recovery, data archiving, global file share, scale out storage and storage virtualization. The firm offers nasuni file services, the nasuni filer, nasuni management console, nasuni operations center, and cloud storage products. The company was founded by Andres I. Rodriguez and Robert S. Mason, Jr. in 2009 and is headquartered in Natick, MA.

FinAnalytica, Inc. provides risk management software solutions. It offers implementation and integration, quantitative consulting, and client services and training. Its solutions include proactive risk management, dashboard analytics and risk reporting, and portfolio construction and asset allocation. The company was founded by Zari Rachev, Stephen Elston and Boryana Racheva-lotova in 2001 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

bfinance UK Ltd. operates as an independent financial services company. It provides financial advice and solutions to companies and institutional investors around the globe. Its services include investment strategy design, development and review, dedicated custody and investment platform selection, investment manager research and selection, customized portfolio implementation, portfolio monitoring, portfolio risk solutions and training. The company was founded by David Vafai and Marc Mayor in 1999 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.