Thomas Sponholtz

Washington Mutual, Inc. provides financial services to consumers and mid sized businesses in the United States. The company primarily operates through three segments: retail banking & financial services, mortgage banking and commercial banking. The retail banking and financial services segment provides investment advisory and brokerage services, sales of annuities, mutual fund management and other financial services. This segment also purchases and re-underwrites loans to subprime borrowers. The mortgage banking segment offers various home loans including fixed rate home loans, adjustable rate home loans, hybrid home loans, option ARMs and government insured or guaranteed home loans. The commercial segment provides financing to developers and investors for the acquisition or construction of multifamily dwellings and other commercial properties, originates and services multifamily and other commercial real estate loans. The company was founded in August 1994 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

Part of GE Aerospace, GE Capital Mortgage Services, Inc. is a company that provides trust services. The company is based in Cherry Hill, NJ.

Nomura Holding America, Inc. provides investment banking and securities services. It operates in North and South America and deals with equities, fixed income, asset management, venture capital and private equity investing. The company was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

PayPal, Inc. provides online payment services. It facilitates people to send money through PayPal account balances, bank accounts, PayPal Credit and credit cards. The company?s digital wallet assists to perform online transactions, in store and mobile devices. It?s a global payments platform, which offer withdraws funds and hold balances in their PayPal accounts in multiple currencies. The company was founded by Luke Nosek, Ken Howery, Yu Pan, Peter Andreas Thiel, Max R. Levchin and Elon Reeve Musk in December 1998 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Bartlit Beck Herman Palenchar & Scott LLP provides legal services. The private company is based in Chicago, IL.

LiveOps, Inc. provides cloud contact center and customer service solutions. It offers various call types and channels, including customer service call center, outbound services interactions, inbound sales interactions, lead generation interactions, and self-service interactive voice response capabilities. The firm also provides cloud contact center solutions such as LiveOps Engage, LiveOps Voice and LiveOps Insight. LiveOps serves the financial, health, insurance, retail, marketing and media industries. The company was founded by William J. Trenchard in 2000 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

Proxibid, Inc. engages in the operation of live auction platform. It offers auction marketing, event promotion, and advertising of art, antiques, and collectibles, coins and currency, collector cars, commercial trucks, computers and electronics, personal properties, fire arms and military artifacts, jewelries, gemstones and watches, vehicles, marine, and aviation. The company was founded by Andrew Liakos, Ken Maxwell, and Joe Petsick in July 2001 and is headquartered in Omaha, NE.

McKinsey & Co., Inc. provides management consulting services. It specializes in design, marketing and sales, analytics, operations, transformation and restructuring, risk, strategy and corporate finance, and sustainability and resource productivity. The company was founded by James O. McKinsey in 1926 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

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.

Morrison & Foerster LLP is a law firm that provides legal services on various industries, which include: litigation, financial services, intellectual property and technology, and transactional work, such as corporate, capital markets and real estate finance representations. The company was founded in 1883 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Assurity Life Insurance Co. provides easy access to insurance protection products. It offers individual insurance solutions which include disability income, critical illness, life products, accidental health and annuities and worksite solutions include voluntary employee benefits. The company was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Lincoln, NE.

Saatchi & Saatchi North America, Inc. provides advertising services. It offers creative advertising services and plans marketing campaigns for advertisers and global companies. The company was founded in 1970 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Property & Portfolio Research LLC provides commercial real estate research and portfolio strategy services to the institutional real estate community. The company also provides real estate market & portfolio, mortgage risk analysis and investment strategies. Its clients include commercial banks, insurance companies, rating & government agencies, pension funds, investment advisors, real estate investment trusts, and private investors. The firm has operations in Boston, London and Hong Kong. Property & Portfolio Research is headquartered in Boston, MA

Assurity Security Group, Inc. provides insurance brokerage services. The firm’s products include Individual Insurance and worksite solutions. The company is headquartered in Lincoln, NE.

Chela Financial, Inc. provides student loans. The company provides federal loans, private loans and consolidation loans. It offers its services to undergraduate, graduate and professional level students. The company was founded in 1979 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce operates as a chamber of commerce. The company was founded in 1893 and is headquartered in Omaha, NE.

Applied Capital Management, Inc. provides investment advisory services. The firm's customers include the agriculture, chemicals, coal, metals and mining industries. The company is headquartered in Londonderry, NH.

Part of Fifth Third Bancorp, Old Kent Mortgage Services, Inc. is a real estate loans company. The company is based in Grand Rapids, MI.

First Ascent LLC provides investment solutions. The private company is based in the United States and has subsidiaries in the country.

Part of M.D.C. Holdings, Inc., HomeAmerican Mortgage Corp. provides acquisition, purchase, sale, securitization, and servicing of residential mortgages services. The company is based in Denver, CO.

Part of Wells Fargo Bank NA (Sioux Falls, South Dakota), Wells Fargo Bank & Trust Co. (Cayman) Ltd. is a foreign branch of a domestic bank. The company is based in George Town, the Cayman Islands.

PI Analytics LLC is a qualified opportunity fund that aims to provide attractive returns for its investors. PI Analytics is based in Olney, MD and was founded by Leonard Mills. The private company invests in extraordinary companies and entrepreneurs that can change the world, with a focus on those that are revolutionizing large, traditional industries with innovative new products and services. The company strives to promote positive, sustainable, and measurable economic impact in opportunity zones and communities nationwide. It also values the strength of an idea and invests in early and growth stage capital. PI Analytics has a diversified investment portfolio and plans investments around the ability to exit early.

Arable Labs, Inc. engages in the provision of data driven land management solutions. It specializes in crop forecasting, measurement and data science. The company was founded by Adam Wolf, Kelly Caylor and Ben Siegfried in 2014 and is headquartered in Princeton, NJ.

FarmWise Labs, Inc. develops software farms for monitoring, recording, processing, collecting, managing, reporting, forecasting and analyzing farm operation information. It specializes in agriculture, robotics, computer vision, machine learning, AgTech, mechanical design. The company was founded by Thomas Palomares and Sebastien Boyer in 2016 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Verte Capital LLC (Verte Capital) is a private investment arm of PI Analytics LLC founded in 2015 by Leonard Mills. The firm is headquartered in College Park, Maryland.

Wellio, Inc. provides artificial intelligence platform for food related services. Its application enables to decode how meals are prepared and enjoyed. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Avenue Capital Group LLC engages in the provision of investing services. It specializes in distressed securities, bank debt, stressed high yield debt, event-driven situations, restructured and post re-organization equities, and trade claims. The company was founded by Marc Lasry and Sonia Gardner in 1995 and is headquartered in New York, NY.