Ralph W. Hardy

UBS Securities LLC is an investment bank and registered broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1998 as UBS Warburg LLC. They are a subsidiary of UBS Americas Holding LLC, ultimately held by UBS Group AG (SWX: UBSG, NYSE: UBS) in Switzerland. UBS Securities is a primary dealer in US Government securities and provides a full range of investment banking services which includes corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, trading and sales, fixed-income, equity research, private banking, underwriting and prime brokerage operations. The firm also provides advisory services and access to capital markets for corporate, institutional, intermediary and alternative asset management clients.

HubPages, Inc. provides online publishing services. Its ecosystem provides tools for publishing on the Internet and drives traffic from search engines. The company was founded by Paul Deeds, Paul Edmondson and Jay Reitz in August 2006 and is headquartered in Oakland, CA.

GoFormz, Inc. provides mobile-first productivity solutions. Its mobile productivity apps turn paper forms into smart mobile forms capturing data electronically in real time across their business gaining improvements in productivity. The firm's customers include the agriculture, energy, construction, engineering and manufacturing industries. The company was founded on January 1, 2012 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Needham & Co. LLC (Needham) is a registered investment advisor and broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1985 and is a wholly-owned indirect subsidiary of The Needham Group, Inc. Needham provides corporate and institutional clients with high quality research, corporate access, capital markets and trading execution services in both the public and private markets, with an emphasis on growth companies.

GE Aviation Systems North America produces commercial and military jet engines and components as well as integrated digital, electric power, and mechanical systems for aircraft. It also maintains a service network for the support of its offerings. The company is headquartered in Cincinnati, OH.

Allied Signal Aerospace, Inc. manufactures aircraft parts & systems. It also offers automotive products and engineered materials. The company is headquartered in Norcross, GA

The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants provides vocational education in accounting. The company provides services to the accounting community, regulatory bodies, and other organizations. It also operates in Jersey City, Washington, and Lewisville. It was founded in 1887 and is headquartered in New York City, NY.

Storm Ventures LLC (Storm Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 1997 by Dick Moley, Alex Mendez, Ryan Floyd, Tae Hea Nahm and Sanjay Subhedar. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

California Institute of Technology provides education focusing on science, engineering, academia, business, and public service. The company was founded in 1891 and it is headquartered in Pasadena, CA.

Paul Morrel, Inc. provides facilities support management services, with a focus on serving the military. Paul Morrel was acquired by Diatect International Corp. from Morrell Paul, Inc.

Independent Online Distribution Alliance, Inc. provides digital distribution, marketing and technology solutions. It provides services to record labels, physical distributors, and artists, including license, negotiations, media encoding, metadata management, royalty payment administration and reporting. The company was founded by Kevin Arnold in 2003 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Flite, Inc. operates as a cloud-based ad platform. Its platform allows advertisers, agencies and publishers to create, serve and measure real-time advertisements, online building tools and analytics. The company was founded by Giles Goodwin, Dean Moses and Ed Anuff in 2006 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Women in Bio, Inc. is an organization that supports women in the life sciences industry. The non-profit company is based in Bethesda, MD and has subsidiaries in the United States. The organization has 13 chapters in the United States and is funded by sponsors and partners who are dedicated to supporting diversity and inclusion for women of all ages. Founded in 2002, it offers professional educational programs, peer-to-peer learning, mentoring, and networking opportunities for women at all career levels. Women in Bio was founded by Faith L. Charles and Cynthia Wong Hu.

BlackRock Fund Advisors (BFA) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in San Francisco, California. The firm was founded in 1984 and is a subsidiary of BlackRock Delaware Holdings, Inc., ultimately held by BlackRock, Inc. (NYSE: BLK). BFA manages assets for US registered investment companies, including ETFs. Mandates include cash management, equity, fixed income, multi-asset and index strategies.

Wells Fargo Securities LLC (WFS) is the broker/dealer subsidiary of EVEREN Capital Corp., ultimately owned by Wells Fargo & Co. (NYSE: WFC). Headquartered in New York, WFS delivers a comprehensive suite of banking, capital markets and advisory solutions, such as a full complement of sales, trading and research capabilities, to corporate, government and institutional clients.

Praedictus Climate Solutions, Inc. is an American agriculture technology company founded in 2015. The private company specializes in biophysical crop modelling and high-performance computing to empower clients with exposure to weather and climate-driven crop risk. The company's goal is to rigorously quantify, forecast, and mitigate that risk through a new generation of quantitative agricultural forecasting.

Liongard, Inc. engages in the automation of management and protection of modern IT environments at scale for IT MSPs and enterprise IT operations. Its product Roar, automates the discovery, documentation, change detection, and assessment of best practice configuration. The company was founded by Joe Alapat and Vincent Tran and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

IrishAngels Inc (IrishAngels) is a venture capital subsidiary of Vitalize Venture Group founded in 2012 by Thomas Jordan Curnes, David Wieland and Gale Wilkinson. The firm is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.