Sheri W. Puryear

Paracelsus Healthcare Corp. owns and operates acute care and related healthcare businesses through directly and its subsidiaries. Its hospitals offer a broad array of general medical and surgical services on an inpatient, outpatient and emergency basis. Certain hospitals and their related facilities offer home health, skilled nursing care, rehabilitation and psychiatric services. The company was founded in November 1980 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd. manufactures pharmaceutical products. It offers pharmaceutical drugs, pharmaceutical instruments, and diagnostics solutions. The company was founded by Fritz Hoffmann-La Roche on October 1, 1896 and is headquartered in Basel, Switzerland.

Virginia Retirement Systems (VRS) is a state-owned pension fund management firm headquartered in Richmond, Virginia. Founded in 1942, VRS administers pension plans and other benefits for Virginia's public sector employees through sound financial stewardship and superior customer service. Members include public school teachers, political subdivision employees (cities, towns, special authorities and commissions), state agency employees, public college and university personnel, state police, Virginia law officers and the judiciary. They also administer an optional retirement plan for political appointees and the Virginia Sickness and Disability Program for state employees.

Truist Bank provides financial services. Its services include banking, lending, insurance, trust, and wealth management solutions. The firm offers services to businesses, public agencies, local governments, and individuals. The company was founded in 1872 and is headquartered in Winston-Salem, NC.

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLC provides assurance, tax and advisory services. Its services include audit and assurance, consulting, deals, human resources, legal, tax, and family business. The firm also offers accountability, risk management, structuring, mergers and acquisitions, and performance and process improvement. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Buffalo, NY.

Thompson, Siegel & Walmsley LLC (TSW) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Richmond, Virginia. The firm was founded in 1969 and is a subsidiary of Pendal USA, Inc., which is owned by Perpetual Ltd. (ASX: PPT) in Australia. TSW offers a full range of investment management strategies which includes US and Non-US Equities, Income Strategies, Balanced portfolio strategies and Alternatives for both Institutional and Strategic Advisory clients.

Lewtan Technologies, Inc. provides analytics and surveillance information to the asset-backed securities market. The company is headquartered in New York, NY.

Syncora Guarantee, Inc. provides guarantee US municipal bonds; asset-backed securities; debt backed by utilities and selected infrastructure projects; specialized risks, including future flow securitizations and bank deposit insurance; and collateralized debt obligations. The company is headquartered in New York, NY.

Babcock & Brown LP is a boutique investment banking firm that provides financial advisory services. The firm offers mergers and acquisition advisory services. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

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.

Lumenate LLC provides information technology consulting services. It is a technical consulting firm focused on enabling the virtualized enterprise with disciplines in storage, virtualized servers, security and networking. The firm technical consultants provide unique technical insight, and better technical execution; resulting in proven impactful business results. The company was founded by Collin Miles and J. Reagan Dixon III in May 2003 and is headquartered in Addison, TX.

Part of LGC Ltd., Kirkegaard & Perry Laboratories, Inc. develops, manufactures, and markets immunochemicals. The company is based in Gaithersburg, MD. Kirkegaard & Perry Laboratories was acquired by SeraCare Life Sciences, Inc., part of LGC Ltd. from November 26, 2018 on August 19, 2013.

Institute for Data Research, Inc. provides information technology consulting services. It offers data assessments and management, data solutions and education. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Richmond, VA.

Charles River Laboratories Ashland LLC provides product safety and toxicological assessment research and services. It serves the international pharmaceutical, biotechnology, chemical, agricultural, veterinary, food, and consumer products industries. The firm's services include toxicology, discovery, ADME & DMPK, analytical and regulatory services, safety pharmacology, and pathology. The company was founded in 1976 and is headquartered in Ashland, OH.

Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute provides biomedical research services. It conducts research and development of countermeasures to chemical, biological, nuclear, radiological, and explosive emerging and environmental threats to human health as well as advancing the diagnosis and treatment of mental illness and other brain disorders. The company was founded in 1947 and is headquartered in Albuquerque, NM.

RBC Wealth Management (RBCWM) is wealth management division of RBC Capital Markets Equity Research, which is ultimately owned by Royal Bank of Canada (NYSE; TSE: RY). Formerly known as RBC Dain Rauscher, Inc., the firm was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota. RBCWM provides trusted advice and wealth management solutions to individuals, families and institutions.

Regions Bank provides consumer and commercial banking, wealth management, mortgage, and insurance products and services. The company is headquartered in Birmingham, AL.

Level Up Ventures LLC (Level Up Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2021 by Black and Latino. The firm is headquartered in New York.

MedStar Research Institute provides scientific, administrative, and regulatory support for clinical research. The non-profit company is based in Hyattsville, MD.

PT BTMU-BRI Finance provides financial leasing services. The company was founded in December 7, 1983 and is headquartered in Jakarta, Indonesia.