Edward McDermott

The San Francisco Foundation addresses community needs by supporting ideas and strengthening existing nonprofit organizations that lack sufficient resources or infrastructure. As a regional community foundation serving San Francisco, Marin, Alameda, Contra Costa, and San Mateo Counties, it focus on the areas of arts and culture, community development, community health, education, and the environment. The company was founded in 1948 by Daniel Koshland and headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

SpringTide Partners LLC (SpringTide) is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. The firm was founded by Aaron D. Dirlam and Paul S. Courtney in 2017. SpringTide provides independent investment solutions for family offices, advisors and institutions.

Lamar Advertising Co. is engaged in the outdoor advertising business. The company offers solutions for clients in the form of bulletins, posters, digital billboards, buses, benches, transit shelters and highway logo signs. It operates three types of outdoor advertising displays: Billboards, Logo Signs and Transit Advertising Displays. The Billboards displays sell its advertising space on two types of billboards, including bulletins, which are illuminated advertising structures that are located on major highways and target vehicular traffic; posters, which are generally smaller advertising structures that are located on traffic arteries and city streets and target vehicular and pedestrian traffic; and also sells digital billboards, which are generally located on major traffic arteries and city streets. The Logo Signs displays generally advertise nearby gas, food, camping, lodging and other attractions. The Transit Advertising displays sell advertising space on the exterior and interior of public transportation vehicles, transit shelters and benches in various markets. Lamar Advertising was founded in 1902 and is headquartered in Baton Rouge, LA.

Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC (GS&Co.) is a securities brokerage firm headquartered in New York City. Founded in 1927, the firm is a subsidiary of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE: GS). GS&Co. provides services to help hedge funds manage risk, monitor portfolios, maintain liquidity and build their businesses. They offer clients access to global equity and derivatives markets, as well as foreign exchange, commodities, European Lefts, rates and credit across the Americas, Europe and Asia. The firm proactively monitors capital markets, searching for pockets of liquidity and news that may require changes to those strategies. Integration with the Goldman Sachs network gives clients access to the firm's sectored block trades and their insights into price discovery. Their electronic trading program provides clients with tools to manage their trades from pre-trade analytics to post-trade analysis.

The San Francisco School provides elementary school services. The San Francisco School is based in San Francisco, CA.

SPO Partners & Co. is an independent hedge fund manager headquartered in Mill Valley, California. The firm was co-founded in 1991 by John Scully, William “Bill” Oberndorf and William Patterson. SPO Partners offers investment advisory services only to a small number of investment entities.