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The Teacher Retirement System of Texas (TRS) is a state-owned pension fund manager headquartered in Austin, Texas. The firm was founded by the Texas Legislature in 1937 to provide service and disability retirement benefits to teachers and administrators of the public school systems of Texas, which include institutions of higher education. In 1949, legislation expanded membership eligibility to include all employees of public education institutions. In 1985, TRS was assigned responsibility to administer health insurance program for public school retirees. The firm invests funds under its stewardship and delivers benefits to members as authorized by the Texas Legislature.

Ernst & Young LLP engages in the provision of accounting, assurance, tax, transaction, and advisory services. It specializes in the actuarial, analytics and big data, cyber security, accounting compliance and reporting, center for board matters, international financial reporting standards, country tax advisory, global trade, tax accounting, and climate change and sustainability. The company was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

University of Houston System offers higher education degrees and job training or vocational study programs. It offers about 280 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in fields such as business, education, humanities and law. It was founded in 1927 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

State Bar of Texas provides legal educational programming services. The private company is based in Austin, TX.

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.

EnCap Investments LP (EnCap Investments) is a private equity firm founded in 1988 by Gary Peterson and Robert Zorich and The firm is headquartered in Houston, Texas.

Council on Foreign Relations, Inc. provides and disseminates ideas on foreign policies to individuals, corporate members, journalists and policy makers. It operates a forum for government officials, students and other interested parties to study and discuss world issues and impact on American foreign policies. The company publishes Foreign Affairs, a magazine that comes out six times a year, along with books and studies by its own scholars. Council on Foreign Relations was founded in 1921 and is headquartered in New York City, NY.

Ebony Media Operations LLC provides marketing consulting services. The company is headquartered in Austin, TX.

The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants provides vocational education in accounting. The company provides services to the accounting community, regulatory bodies, and other organizations. It also operates in Jersey City, Washington, and Lewisville. It was founded in 1887 and is headquartered in New York City, NY.

Founded in 1989 by Don Rice, Jeffrey Sangalis, Jeffrey Toole and James Wilson, RSTW Partners is a private equity firm headquartered in Houston, Texas.

Association for Corporate Growth, Inc. is a global organization founded in 1954 by Kenneth S. Berryman and David H. Brenner. The non-profit company is based in Chicago, IL and has subsidiaries in the United Kingdom, Netherlands, Canada, and the United States. The company's mission is to drive middle-market growth and it serves 90,000 investors, executives, lenders, and advisers to growing middle-market companies. The company's core focus is on middle-market M&A, with more than 25 years of sell-side and buy-side advisory experience, closing more than 200 transactions with a combined value of more than $1 billion. The company also publishes Middle Market Growth, the official publication of the Association for Corporate Growth, which includes a print magazine, website, weekly e-newsletter, and daily newsfeed. The CEO of the company since 2019 is Brent A. Baxter.

HealthTell, Inc. develops healthcare diagnosing tools for individuals to monitor their health status. It offers OneTest, a new technology for the early detection and monitoring of progressive diseases and the test is simple and inexpensive, and can be performed with only a single drop of blood. The company was founded in 2010 by Stephen Albert Johnston and Neal Woodbury and is headquartered in Chandler, AZ.

Kercheville Advisors LLC is an investment advisory firm that provides retirement, investment, estate, tax, and lifestyle services. The private company is based in San Antonio, TX and was founded in 2013. The company's website offers a glossary, tax resources, and useful links to help clients make informed decisions. The company takes data and privacy protection seriously and is registered as a registered investment adviser in Texas. The website also provides a disclaimer that investments involve risk and are not guaranteed. Joe Beaty Kercheville has been the CEO of the company since 2014.

Citadel Advisors LLC is a SEC-registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in Miami, Illinois. The firm was founded in 1990 by Kenneth Griffin and is a wholly-owned by Citadel Advisors Holdings LP, ultimately held by GFH HFEVA LLC. Citadel Advisors manages private investment funds that are offered exclusively to sophisticated investors.

Blueprint Capital Advisors LLC is an alternative investment firm that manages fund and direct investments in private credit and other alternative lending strategies. Blueprint Capital Advisors is based in New York, NY. The private company's focus is on niche direct lending, specialty finance, royalties and advances, real asset related investments and distressed debt strategies. The firm is registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission and advises on $1.40 billion of assets. The company was founded by Jacob Walthour and he has been the CEO since incorporation.

Part of Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings, Inc., The Sumitomo Trust & Banking Co. (USA) Ltd. provides investment advice services. The company is based in New York, NY.

Part of Bridgeman Sports & Media LLC, Ebony Media Holdings LLC functions as an investment holding company. The company is based in Houston, TX. Ebony Media Holdings was acquired by Bridgeman Sports & Media LLC on February 16, 2021.

Manning NavComp, Inc. provides web based GPS vehicle tracking services for fleet management purposes. Its services include development and integration of digital communications systems, target tracking systems, and state of the art control of distributed communication and surveillance platforms. The company was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

Accent-Fairchild Group, Inc. manufactures and supplies house and hardware products. Its divisions include accent, fisher, lifetime, meyer, MLM, 3D Light FX and wean green. The firm’s products include houseware storage containers and shelving, food storage containers, tool boxes, and metal and plastic parts cabinets. The company was founded in 1974 and is headquartered in Quebec, Canada.

Merrill Lynch International (MLI-UK) is a brokerage firm headquartered in London, UK. The firm was founded in 1988 and is a subsidiary of ML UK Capital Holdings Ltd., ultimately owned by Bank of America Corp. (NYSE: BAC) in the US. MLI-UK provides brokerage services to individual and retail clients.

Sestina Bio LLC operates a platform for automated synthetic biology. It provides technology centric, R&D platform to provide cutting edge solutions to sustainably feed and clothe. The firms approach is to integrate tools for genome editing, single cell biology, and machine learning to transform ability to engineer and harness biological function. The company was founded by William Wayne Colston, Jr. and is headquartered in Pleasanton, CA.

Purigen Biosystems, Inc. engages in extracting, enriching and quantifying DNA and RNA from biological samples. The company was founded in 2012 by Amy Hiddessen, Klint Rose and Juan Santiago and is headquartered in Pleasanton, CA.

Rheonix, Inc. operates microfluidic platform for the molecular diagnostics industry. It is committed to improving standards of care by making molecular diagnostics available to more people, in more places, more often. The firm's platform performs fully automated, complex molecular assays in an easy to use and economical format on the Rheonix CARD cartridge. The company was founded by Greg Galvin in 2007 and is headquartered in Ithaca, NY.

RubrYc Therapeutics, Inc. develops antibody therapy applications. Its products include RubrYc Discovery Engine, through which people can decode protein interactions through the integration of data and biological science. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in San Carlos, CA.

QuantaLife, Inc. operates as a biotechnology company. It develops and manufactures products based on nucleic acid testing concept for the life science research, clinical molecular diagnostics, personalized medical care and industrial markets. The company was founded by Kevin Dean Ness, Benjamin Hindson, Christopher T. Blisard and William Wayne Colston Jr. in 2008 and is headquartered in Boulder, CO.

The Texas Medical Center provides healthcare services. The company was founded in 1900 and is headquartered in Huston, TX.

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory provides nuclear testing services. The Laboratory's security needs include countering the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and strengthening homeland security against the terrorist use of such weapons. The company was founded in 1952 and is headquartered in Livermore, CA.