Michelle Heath

NorthWestern Corp. engages in generating and distributing electricity and natural gas. It operates through the following segments: Electric, Gas, and Other. The Electric segment includes generation, transmission, and distribution of electric utility business as a vertically integrated generation transmission and distribution utility. The Gas segment consists of production, storage, transmission, and distribution of natural gas. The Other segment consists of unallocated corporate costs. The company was founded in November 1923 and is headquartered in Sioux Falls, SD.

Piper Sandler & Co. (Broker) (PSC-Broker) is the full-service brokerage division of Piper Sandler & Co., a financial service firm headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota. They are a subsidiary of Piper Sandler Companies (NYSE: PIPR). The firm was founded in 1969 and previously known as Piper Jaffray & Co. They became Piper Sandler & Co. when Piper Jaffray Companies and Sandler O’Neill & Partners, L.P. merged to become Piper Sandler Companies in 2020. PSC-Broker provides brokerage and investment banking services to financial institutions, corporations and other financial investors. Their core focus sectors are Agriculture, renewables & cannabis, Business services, Chemicals & Materials, Consumer, Diversified industrials & services, Energy, Financial services, financial sponsors, Healthcare, and Technology.

Prairie Aquatech Manufacturing LLC specializes in the development and use of plant-based products for the animal feed industry. It offers aquaculture, feed manufacturing, animal nutrition, and feed ingredients. The company was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Brookings, SD.

Grand Prairie Foods, Inc. provides ready to heat and eat food products. It offers fully cooked scrambled eggs frozen, pre-cooked scrambled refrigerated eggs, fully cooked scrambled eggs frozen with ham and cheese, ham and cheese stir-in kit, grilled steak and cheese kit, yukon gold potato blend, redskin potato blend, french toast with cinnamon glaze, pancakes, english muffin with turkey sausage and cheddar cheese, bagel whole wheat with sausage, ciabatta bun with egg, biscuit with sausage and chicken patty, cheese, peppers and egg bowl, and frittata western style and omelet. The company was founded by Kurt Loudenback and Valerie Loudenback in 2003 and is headquartered in Sioux Falls, SD.

MedGene Therapeutics, Inc. engages in the development of ACT treatments for two cancers using NIH patented technology. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Silver Spring, MD.

South Dakota Innovation Partners is a venture capital firm. The private company is based in Brookings, SD.