Donald Putnam

Founded by Donald Putnam and Jefffrey Lovell in 1987, Putnam Lovell NBF Securities is a broker/dealer headquartered in New York City with an additional office in Boston. The firm is a subsidiary of Jefferies & Co., Inc. and their ultimate parent is Jefferies Group, Inc. (NYSE: JEF). Putnam Lovell NBF Securities provides a full array of trading and execution services for their clients. Their clients include U.S. and foreign financial institutions, mutual fund companies, private investment firms, broker/dealers, insurance companies, e-Finance companies and banks.

Bankers Trust Co. of Texas is a state chartered commercial bank. The private company is based in Dallas, TX.

Grail Partners (Grail) is a private equity division of Grail partners LLC founded in 2005 by Don Putnam and Darlene Deremer. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

United Capital Financial Partners, Inc. engages in the provision of financial advisory services. It offers financial life management, guidance-driven investing, and extended financial services. The company was founded by Joseph John Duran, Patrick M. Bommarito and Caryn L. Westman in 2005 and is headquartered in Newport Beach, CA.

Emerging Managers Group LP engages in the distribution of offshore asset management products. The company was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Manifold Partners LLC provides investment advice. It offers investors with asset management solutions. The firm’s portfolios are designed to produce consistent, uncorrelated returns from a diversified set of global investment strategies. It specializes in portfolio management, risk management, trading, operations, client service and industry outreach as well as centralized infrastructure. The company was founded on June 10, 2013 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Part of Welton Investment Corp., Welton Investment Partners LLC is an alternative asset manager that specializes in innovative, uncorrelated, actively managed strategies to deliver maximum investor outcomes regardless of market conditions. The company is based in Carmel, CA and was founded by Patrick Welton, who has been the CEO since incorporation. Welton Investment Partners manages assets for institutional and private investors with offices in NY and CA. The firm seeks to generate consistent investor returns by identifying recurrent market themes across various market environments and delivering absolute returns with low correlation to the broader markets. The company's current strategies include quantitative macro, systematic trend strategies, equity statistical arbitrage, a variety of multi-strategy and customized investments, as well as ESG advantage.

CBL Markets Holdings Pty Ltd. facilitates trading of emissions allowances and offsets, water entitlements and allocations. The firm operates a platform that connects buyers and sellers around the world to facilitate the trading of products in environmental commodity markets. Its platform enables participants to trade Australian and the U.S. environmental products. The company was founded by Nathan Rockliff in 2009 and is headquartered in Sydney, Australia.

Manifold Partners LLC (Investment Management) (Manifold-IM) is the alternative investment management division of Manifold Partners LLC, a systematic asset manager and quant research advisory firm headquartered in San Francisco, California. The firm was founded by Donald H. Putnam in 2012. Manifold-IM provides asset management solutions to sophisticated investors.

Xpansiv CBL Holding Group Ltd. operates as a commodity exchange. The firm ingests data, sourced from each commodity?s lifecycle, and converts it into Intelligent Commodities-digital assets that enable transactions based on comprehensive information. The company was founded by Joe Madden and is headquartered in Sydney, Australia.

Align Infrastructure, Inc. provides investment services. The private company is based in Geyserville, CA. The company was founded in 2020. The CEO is Joel Jacobs.

Avalon Acquisition, Inc. is a blank check company formed for the purpose of effecting a merger, capital stock exchange, asset acquisition, stock purchase, reorganization, or similar business combination with one or more businesses. The company was founded on October 12, 2020 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.