Erik Brannon

Inamed Corp. developed and manufactured breast implants, wrinkle prevention & obesity solutions. Its products were available through its two business divisions: INAMED Aesthetics, and INAMED Health. The company offered breast implants for augmentation, reconstruction surgeries, invasive surgeries for sustained weight loss and other dermal products to correct facial wrinkles. INAMED was headquartered in Santa Barbara, CA.

Gamble Jones Investment Counsel (GJIC) is a SEC-registered investment advisor and wealth management firm headquartered in Pasadena, California. The firm was founded by Jim Gamble in 1956 as Gamble, Jones, Morphy & Bent. In 2023, they were acquired by Cerity Partners LLC, a subsidiary of Palladium Partners LLC. GJIC provides investment advisory services to individuals, family groups, foundations, endowment funds, trusts, pension, and profit-sharing plans.

Churchill Management Corp. (Churchill) is an independent, SEC-registered independent investment advisor headquartered in Los Angeles, California. The firm was founded by Fred A. Fern in 1963. Churchill provides investment advice to individuals, trusts, pension plans, investment funds and other types of entities.

Morton Capital Management LLC, dba Morton Wealth (Morton), is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor and wealth management firm headquartered in Calabasas, California. Founded in 1981, Morton provides customized investment advisory and financial planning services to individuals and families (which include retirement accounts), pension and profit-sharing plans, trusts, estates, charitable organizations, corporations and other business entities, and pooled investment vehicles.

Ladders, Inc. provides online and mobile job-matching services. It helps professionals find the jobs and meet the employers that are right for their career goals. The firm serves professionals in marketing and media, healthcare, technology, consumer goods, industrial, and service sector in the United States. The company was founded by Marc Cenedella, Andrew Koch and Alexandre Douzet in July 2003 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Afraxis, Inc. operates as a contract research organization (CRO), specializes in preclinical efficacy evaluations (in vivo and in vitro), neurotoxicity evaluations, and structure-efficacy relationship (SER)-driven medicinal chemistry. It develops Afraxis ESP, an enhanced spine analysis platform that quantifies the morphology and maturity of synaptic dendritic spines, which are fundamental to information processing by neural synapses in the brain. The company was founded by Jay B. Lichter, Carmine Stengone, Susumu Tonegawa and Ben Vollrath in 2007 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Prosper Funding LLC operates as a development stage company that operates a peer-to-peer lending platform. Its platform is an online marketplace that matches individuals who wish to obtain consumer loans with those who are willing to help fund those loans. The company was founded in February 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Jefferies LLC is a global investment bank and institutional securities firm headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1962 and is a subsidiary of Jefferies Group LLC, ultimately held by Jefferies Financial Group, Inc. (NYSE: JEF). Jefferies provides corporate clients with research and execution services in equity, fixed income, and foreign exchange markets, as well as a full range of investment banking services such as underwriting, mergers and acquisitions, restructuring and recapitalization, and other advisory services, with all businesses operating in the Americas, Europe and Asia.

Western Asset Management Co. (Western Asset) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Pasadena, California. The firm was founded in 1971 and is a subsidiary of Legg Mason, Inc., which is owned by Franklin Resources, Inc. Western Asset provides discretionary investment management services to primarily institutional clients.

Deloitte & Touche LLP engages in the provision of audit, advisory, financial advisory, tax, and consulting services. The company was founded on March 7, 1995 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Moody's Investors Service, Inc. is a credit rating and investment research firm headquartered in New York City. They are a subsidiary of Moody's Corp. (NYSE: MCO). The firm performs international financial research and analysis on commercial and government entities and provides a variety of analytic tools for assessing credit risk. Their clients include creditors, investment banks and commercial banks.

CreditSights, Inc. is an independent investment research firm headquartered in New York City. The firm was co-founded by Paul Ciasullo, Reena Mithal, Glenn Reynolds and Peter Petas in 2000. They are a subsidiary of Fitch Group, Inc., ultimately owned by The Hearst Family Trust. CreditSights provides fundamental, in-depth credit research for buy-side decisionmakers, sell-side intermediaries and wealth managers and private banks globally. The firm actively covers more than 5,000 companies in North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific representing over 56 countries.

Signature Estate & Investment Advisors LLC (SEIA) is a SEC-registered investment advisor and wealth management firm headquartered in Los Angeles, California. The firm was founded by Brian D. Holmes in 1997. They are wholly owned by Signature Financial Service Group LLC, which is owned primarily by a consortium of employees and investors through Reverence Capital Partners Opportunities Fund V LP. SEIA provides investment advisory services to individuals, trusts, estates, pension and profit-sharing plans, charitable organizations, corporations and other businesses.

Deer Management Co. LLC (Bessemer Venture Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 1911. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

California Institute of Technology provides education focusing on science, engineering, academia, business, and public service. The company was founded in 1891 and it is headquartered in Pasadena, CA.

Platinum Equity Advisors LLC (Platinum Equity Advisors) is a private equity firm founded in 1995 by Tom Gores. The firm is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

City National Rochdale LLC (CNR) is the SEC-registered investment management subsidiary of CNR Holdings LLC, ultimately held by Royal Bank of Canada (NYSE, TSE: RY) in Canada. The firm was founded when Rochdale Investment Management LLC was combined with City National Asset Management, Inc. and City National Bank's investment management group, City National Asset Management. Headquartered in New York City, CNR provides portfolio management services to high net-worth individual investors as well as to registered investment companies and institutions.

Arbor Commercial Mortgage LLC provides real estate financing services. It offers fixed-rate, adjustable-rate, senior housing loans, credit facility transactions, and mortgage loan services. The firm was founded by Ivan Kaufman in 1983 and is headquartered in Uniondale, NY.

Voxtel, Inc. engages in the development and manufacture of photonic and electro-optic devices and systems. It offers laser rangefinders, lasers, photoreceivers, detector arrays, focal plane arrat and flash ladar FPAs, and readout integrated circuits. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Beaverton, OR.

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

UBS Investment Bank provides investment banking and securities brokerage services. Its clients include institutional and corporate clients, intermediaries, governments, and hedge funds. The firm also provides merger and acquisition advisory, private placement, investment research, foreign exchange, equity, and leverage finance advisory services. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Founded in 1958, Merrill Lynch Piece Fenner & Smith, Inc. is an SEC registered broker/dealer located in New York City. The firm is a subsidiary of BAC North America Holding Co. and their ultimate parent is Bank of America Corp. (NYSE BAC).

I2020 Accelerator (I2020 Accelerator) is a venture capital firm founded in 2018. The firm is headquartered in San Diego, California.

Sunrise Mortgage & Investment Co. provides mortgage banking services. The firm specializes in providing financing and servicing for commercial properties. The company was founded in 1983 and is headquartered in Scottsdale, AZ.

Prosper Marketplace, Inc. operates as a holding company with interest in operating a peer-to-peer online credit platform. The firm through its subsidiary Proper Funding operates an online marketplace that permits the lender members to bid on loan listings and purchases. It handles the funding and servicing of the loan on behalf of the matched borrowers and investors. The company was founded by Christian A. Larsen and John B. Witchel on March 22, 2005 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

PRISMIQ, Inc. manufactures electrical equipment. The company manufactures Networked MediaPlayers, a device that lets consumers use televisions and stereos to access digital audio and video on their computers or from the internet. PRISMIQ was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Santa Barbara, CA.

Burr Pilger Mayer, Inc. provides accounting and consulting services. The firm's focus areas encompass assurance, corporate tax, business consulting, and wealth management. Its services include audit and quarterly reviews, internal control, forensic accounting, tax planning, business valuation, cash flow management, tax compliance, charitable giving, stock option planning and financial and retirement planning. It serves clients in the agriculture, automotive, construction, financial, government, real estate, and non-profit sectors. The company was founded by Curtis A. Burr, Henry Pilger, and Steven T. Mayer in 1986 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

MMA Renewable Ventures LLC (MMA Renewable Ventures) is a venture capital a subsidiary of Municipal Mortgage & Equity founded in 1999. The firm is headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland.