Rick Treese

TheMarkets.com LLC provides financial research solution services. It offers broker research and earnings models, such as equity, fixed income, sector, economic and strategy reports that create a set of research, data and analytics solutions for institutional asset managers, financial data and analytics. The company was founded by David F. Eisner in 2000 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

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.

Advanstar, Inc. provides integrated marketing solutions. It offers marketing consulting services to the fashion and licensing, power sports, and life sciences industries. The company was founded on April 11, 1996 and is headquartered in New York, NY.