Greg Underwood

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.

Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC is a registered broker-dealer subsidiary of Morgan Stanley Domestic Holdings, Inc., ultimately owned by Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) in the US. Headquartered in New York City, the firm was founded in 1987 and provides debt and equity services including underwriting, M&A advice, securities dealing and brokerage and trade execution. Their client base ranges from large global institutional investors to hedge funds at the cutting edge of innovation in the industry.

Harvard University engages in the provision of teaching and research. It has twelve degree-granting Schools in addition to the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, offering a global education. The university was founded in 1636 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

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.

William Blair & Co. LLC (William Blair) is a SEC-registered broker/dealer firm headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. The firm was founded by William McCormick Blair in 1935 and is a subsidiary of WBC Holdings LP. Until 1941, they were known as Blair, Bonner & Co. William Blair provides broking services to individual, institutional and issuing clients.

New Mountain Capital LLC (New Mountain Capital) is a private equity firm founded in 1999 by Steven Klinsky. The firm is headquartered in New York.

TSG Consumer Partners LLC (TSG Consumer Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 1986 by Charles Howard Esserman. The firm is headquartered in Larkspur, California.

Sentinel Capital Partners LLC (Sentinel Capital Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 1995 by David Lobel, John McCormack, and Frank Richardson. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Updata Management LLC (Updata Partners) is a venture capital/private equity firm founded in 1998. The firm is headquartered in Washington, Columbia.

Beal Bank SSB engages in the provision of financial services. It specializes in offering rates on certificates of deposit, money market accounts, statement savings accounts, and individual retirement account certificates of deposit. The company was founded by D. Andrew Beal in 1988 and is headquartered in Plano, TX.

Prospect Capital Management LLC(Prospect Capital) is a private equity firm founded in 1988. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Newstone Capital Partners LLC (Newstone Capital Partners) is an independent private equity firm founded in 2006 by Timothy P. Costello and John C. Rocchio. The firm is headquartered in Dallas, Texas.

Alyeska Investment Group LP (AIG) is a SEC-registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. The firm was founded by Anand Parekh in 2008 and is a direct subsidiary of Alyeska Investments LLC. AIG provides discretionary investment advisory services to private investment funds that pursue investment strategies through a master-feeder structure.

Gladstone Management Corp (Gladstone management) is a private equity subsidiary of Gladstone Holding Corp founded in 2001 by David J. The firm is headquartered in McLean, Virginia.

The Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Inc. is an independent organization that focuses on restoring and protecting the Chesapeake Bay and its tributary rivers. It was founded in 1967 and is headquartered in Annapolis, MD.

Lumicell, Inc. develops and markets image-guided cancer surgery solutions. It offers Lumicell System, designed to enable surgeons to see residual cancer cells in the cavity walls in real-time during surgery. The company was founded by Linda G. Griffith, David G. Kirsch, Jorge M. Ferrer, Ralph Weissleder, W. David Lee, Andrey J. Zarur, and Moungi G. Bawendi in 2008 and is headquartered in Wellesley, MA.

PennantPark Investment Advisers LLC (PennantPark) is a private equity firm founded in 2007 by Art Penn. The firm is headquartered in Miami, Florida with additional offices in New York, Chicago, Houston and Los Angeles.

Purely Maple, Inc. produces and distributes beverages including maple water. The firm offers maple water under its Happy Tree brand. Its products include lemon, ginger and cold brew coffee. The company was founded by Ari Tolwin and Chaim Tolwin in 2014 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

ScriptCo Inc. is a membership-based pharmacy that aims to make prescription medications more affordable for everyone. The company is based in Woodway, TX. The company does not accept any form of insurance and supplies the same generic medications. To become a member, one needs to fill out the forms on their website. Prescribers can send in new prescriptions to ScriptCo Pharmacy through E-Scribe or other means. The company was founded by Mark McCormick and Zach Zeller, and Mark McCormick has been the CEO since incorporation.

Part of McKinsey & Co., Inc., McKinsey & Company Holdings Ltd. is a consulting firm that partners with leaders on strategy, innovating to net zero, leading with tech, and building capabilities for a sustainable, inclusive, growing future. The company is based in London, UK. The British company specializes in Consumer Packaged Goods and has conducted research, articles, and reports on the changes that matter most for the challenges and opportunities ahead. The company was founded in 2011 by Brian K. Stafford.

Sass Labs, Inc. engages in developing an artificial intelligence (AI) recruiting platform. Its platform AllyO utilizes deeply conversational AI to fully automate an end-to-end recruiting workflow by engaging via texting over mobile and web. The company was founded by Sahil Sahni and Ankit Somani in 2016 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

Blue Collective LLC (Blue Collective) is a private equity and venture capital firm founded in 2010 by JJ Kasper and Brian K. Stafford. The firm is headquartered in Brooklyn, New York.

SSJA Bariatric Management LLC provides administrative support services to bariatric surgery offices. The company was founded by Shawn Garber in 2018 and is headquartered in Roslyn Heights, NY.

Neurana Pharmaceuticals, Inc. engages in a biotechnology industry. It focused on the development of drugs to treat neuromuscular disorders. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

The World Bank (Research) (World Bank-Research) is the investment research division of The World Bank, an international financial institution headquartered in Washington, DC. It provides loans and grants to the governments of low- and middle-income countries for the purpose of pursuing capital projects. World Bank-Research provides research to developing nations to aid economic advancement.

KaNDy Therapeutics Ltd. engages in the provision of a treatment of chronic debilitating female sex-hormone related conditions. Its product is NT-814 a non-hormonal therapy to treat moderate to severe post-menopausal vasomotor symptoms. The company was founded by Dr. Mike Trower and Mary Kerr in 2017 and is headquartered in Stevenage, the United Kingdom.

Nested Therapeutics, Inc. is a biotechnology company based in Cambridge, MA. The company focuses on discovering and developing novel, targeted, small molecule precision medicine therapies for cancer patients. The company uses mutation clusters to identify druggable pockets and have a platform that utilizes insights from genomics, computational chemistry, proteomics, and AI. Nested Therapeutics aims to advance precision oncology medicine by finding new driver mutations to reach a broader group of patients. The company was founded by Arvin Dar and Klaus Hoeflich. The CEO is Darrin Miles.

Avenge Bio, Inc. is an oncology-focused biotechnology company based in the United States. The American company develops cell-based immunotherapeutic products for the treatment of solid tumors using its proprietary Lococyte™ platform. The platform delivers engineered cells to the local tumor environment, generating high concentrations of immune effector molecules in proximity to the tumor, which initiates a robust, local, and durable systemic immune response while avoiding toxicities associated with systemic immunotherapies. Avenge's most advanced product candidate, AVB-001, produces native IL-2 immunotherapy and is initially being studied in metastatic peritoneal cancers such as ovarian cancer. The company has additional pipeline candidates for the treatment of a wide range of cancers, including pancreatic, lung, and breast cancers. Avenge was founded in 2019 by Paul Kevin Wotton and Michael Thomas Heffernan, with Heffernan serving as CEO since incorporation.