Mark M. Whalen

Sterling Capital Management LLC (Sterling) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina. The firm was founded by George de Garmo in 1970 and is an independently operated subsidiary of Truist Financial Corp. (NYSE: TFC). Sterling provides investment management services to a diverse group of clients ranging from retail to corporations and non-profits.

Epic Data International, Inc. manufactures operations management and warehouse management solutions. The firm provides installation and post sales support to the aerospace, defense, automotive, high technology and heavy industrial equipment manufacturers in North America and Western Europe. It develops transaction software and hardware interfaces between custom and enterprise resource planning systems and electronic data capture systems. The company was founded by Helmut Eppich in 1975 and is headquartered in Richmond, Canada.