Ross Taylor

Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC (Credit Suisse Securities USA) is the broker/dealer division of Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, an investment banking company headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1998 and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Credit Suisse (USA), Inc., ultimately owned by Credit Suisse Group AG (SWX: CSGN) in Switzerland. Credit Suisse Securities USA offers a suite of equities, solutions and credit products and services which includes global securities sales, trading and execution, prime brokerage and comprehensive investment research. Their clients include financial institutions, corporations, governments, institutional investors, such as pension funds and hedge funds, and private individuals around the world.

Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors LP (Kayne Anderson) is a SEC-registered investment advisor and alternative investment management firm headquartered in Los Angeles, California. Formerly known as Kaim Non Traditional LP, the firm was founded in 1984 by Richard Kayne and John Anderson. They are owned by Richard Kayne through his majority ownership of Kayne Anderson Investment Management, Inc. Kayne Anderson provides investment supervisory services through privately offered pooled investment vehicles, and to a lesser extent, through separate accounts and mutual funds.

Sevin Rosen Bayless Management Co (Sevin Rosen Bayless) is a venture capital firm founded in 1981. The firm is headquartered in Dallas, Texas.

Founded in 1999, Credit Suisse Asset Management LLC (CSAM) is a registered investment advisor headquartered in New York City. The firm is an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Credit Suisse Group AG (NYSE: CS), a publicly owned foreign bank holding company based in Switzerland.

Quantum Capital Group LLC (Quantum Capital Group) is a private equity firm founded in 1998 by Wil VanLoh, Toby R. Neugebauer and A. V. Jones. The firm is headquartered in Houston, Texas.

University of Texas Investment Management Co. (UTIMCO) is a not-for-profit foundation headquartered in Austin, Texas. The Foundation was founded in 1996 to oversee investments for The University of Texas and Texas A&M University Systems. UTIMCO manages four major endowment funds under the fiduciary care of the UT System Board of Regents: the Permanent University Fund (PUF), the Permanent Health Fund (PHF), the Long Term Fund (LTF), and the Separately Invested Funds (SIF). The PHF and the LTF are pooled and invest in shares of the General Endowment Fund (GEF).

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.

Quanergy Perception Technologies, Inc. develops software for capturing and processing 3D mapping data. It operates as a technology company that engages in developing smart sensing solutions for real-time 3D mapping and object detection, tracking and classification. The firm manufactures 3D time-of-flight LiDAR sensors and LiDAR-based sensing systems. Its markets include passenger vehicles, corporate, commercial, municipal fleets and digital mapping fleets, logistics, robotics, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), wind turbine preservation, inspection, security, and disaster relief. The company was founded by Louay Eldada, Tianyue Yu and Angus Pacala in November 2012 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC (GS&Co.) is a securities brokerage firm headquartered in New York City. Founded in 1927, the firm is a subsidiary of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE: GS). GS&Co. provides services to help hedge funds manage risk, monitor portfolios, maintain liquidity and build their businesses. They offer clients access to global equity and derivatives markets, as well as foreign exchange, commodities, European Lefts, rates and credit across the Americas, Europe and Asia. The firm proactively monitors capital markets, searching for pockets of liquidity and news that may require changes to those strategies. Integration with the Goldman Sachs network gives clients access to the firm's sectored block trades and their insights into price discovery. Their electronic trading program provides clients with tools to manage their trades from pre-trade analytics to post-trade analysis.

Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC is a registered broker-dealer subsidiary of Morgan Stanley Domestic Holdings, Inc., ultimately owned by Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) in the US. Headquartered in New York City, the firm was founded in 1987 and provides debt and equity services including underwriting, M&A advice, securities dealing and brokerage and trade execution. Their client base ranges from large global institutional investors to hedge funds at the cutting edge of innovation in the industry.

The Sterling Group LP (The Sterling Group) is a private equity firm founded in 1982 by Frank J. Hevrdejs. The firm is headquartered in Houston, Texas.

BMO Capital Markets Corp. (Broker) is the broker/dealer division of BMO Capital Markets Corp., a full-service North American financial services provider headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1998 and is a subsidiary of BMO Financial Corp., which is owned by Bank of Montreal (NYSE, TSX: BMO) in Canada. BMO Capital Markets offers corporate, institutional and government clients access to a variety of products and services including equity and debt underwriting, corporate lending and project financing, merger and acquisitions advisory services, merchant banking, securitization, treasury and market risk management, debt and equity research and institutional sales and trading.

Natural Gas Partners LLC (NGP) is a private equity firm, a subsidiary of NGP Energy Capital Management, LLC founded in 1988 by David Russell Albin and Kenneth Alfredo Hersh. The firm is headquartered in Dallas, Texas.

Dos Rios Management LLC (Dos Rios Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 2012 by William W. Patterson. The firm is headquartered in Austin, Texas.

Trilantic Capital Management LP (Trilantic Capital) is a private equity firm founded in 2009 by Danny James. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Tudor, Pickering, Holt & Co. Securities LLC (TPH) is a broker/dealer headquartered in Houston, Texas. The firm was founded in 2007 by Robert Tudor III. They are a subsidiary of Perella Weinberg Partners Group LP, which is ultimately owned by Perella Weinberg Partners (NASDAQ: PWP). TPH provides a full array of trading and execution services for their institutional and corporate clients in the energy sector. They focus on the upstream, midstream and oilfield service sectors.

Jds Uniphase Corp. provides integrated fiber testing, fiber inspection, and optical power measurement solutions. VIAVI is based in San Jose, CA. The private company offers high-performance handheld instruments that cut fiber testing and certification time in half. The company works with over 400 channel partners to sell a broad portfolio of solutions to network, communications, and electronics technology leaders worldwide. VIAVI empowers service providers and IT organizations to manage the network lifecycle for complex 5G and networks with intuitive instruments, systems, and technologies. The company also specializes in light management and optical coatings that help protect the world's banknotes from counterfeiters, enhance colors, and enable advanced technology such as 3D sensing. The company serves government, aerospace, and defense customers with solutions that drive efficiency and reliability for the entire lifecycle of service deployment.

Rhumbix, Inc. provides mobile platform designs services. It develops and delivers a mobile platform for construction field supervision to ensure crews have the materials, tools, equipment, and approved drawings to complete the days work. The company was founded by Zach Scheel and Drew Dewalt and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

StartX, Inc. organizes and develops startup accelerator programs. It provides a network of mentors which is world class. The company benefits from having access to faculty and lecturers from the stanford community including the engineering, business, medical, and design schools. StartX was founded by Divya Nag and Cameron Teitelman in 2009 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

RIOS Corp. engages in the provision and development of automation solutions for factory industry. It offers DX-1 robot, an artificial intelligence (AI) platform with machine neutral processing unit, sense of touch, and perception system. The company is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

Cognitive Space, Inc. is a company that specializes in developing advanced automation systems for the space industry. The company is based in Manvel, TX. The company's focus is on software management of satellite constellations, including mission management, collection planning, communication link management, and modeling & simulation of future capabilities. The company is particularly focused on orchestrated collection management for the explosion of new remote sensing constellations. The CEO of the company is Guy de Carufel.

Mooco Robotics is a hybrid autonomy and tele-guidance service platform that aims to solve the skilled labor shortage in local agriculture and land maintenance operations by providing autonomous equipment. The company is based in and has received venture backing from prestigious investors such as GV, Toyota Ventures, Grit Ventures, Flybridge, Momenta, Village, Cavallo Ventures, and Mirae Asset Venture Investment. The company is based in San Francisco, CA. The executive team consists of veterans from the AI, EV, cloud service, and agriculture industries with extensive experience at companies like Amazon, Apple, Google, CNH Industrial, Microsoft, Uber, and Kittyhawk, as well as lifelong farming experience at agriculture operations such as Trattore Farms. The company was founded by Tim Bucher, and he has been the CEO since incorporation.

Olympus Advisors LLC is an Independent Private Equity firm founded in 1988 by Robert S. Morris. The firm is headquartered in Stamford.

Jones Energy Ltd. explores oil and gas. The company was founded by Jonny Rex Jones in 1988 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

Harris Williams & Co. provides investment advisory services. It offers investment banking, sell-side mergers and acquisitions, capital raising, fairness opinion, and restructuring advisory services. The company was founded by H. Hiter Harris III and Christopher H. Williams in 1991 and is headquartered in Richmond, VA.