Brandon Zhao

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.

Mawer Investment Management Ltd. (Mawer) is a privately-owned, Canadian mutual fund manager headquartered in Calgary, Alberta. It has additional office in Toronto, Ontario, and a subsidiary with an office in Singapore. The firm was founded as a partnership in 1974 by Charles Mawer. They provide discretionary portfolio management services in certain jurisdictions in Canada for individuals, corporations, trusts, estates, institutions, pension funds, and not-for-profit organizations. Mawer also provides discretionary portfolio management services for US-based corporations and institutions, as well as certain US residents. The firm also provides sub-advisory services to certain institutional public mutual funds, non-public pooled funds, separately managed accounts, or wrap-fee programs that are managed and operated by other non-affiliated portfolio managers or investment managers.

BMO Capital Markets Corp. (Canada) (BMO Capital Markets-Canada) is the Canadian brokerage arm of BMO Capital Markets Corp., a full-service financial services provider in the US. The firm was founded in 1817 and is a subsidiary of BMO Asset Management, Inc., which is owned by Bank of Montreal (NYSE, TSX: BMO) in Canada. Headquartered in Toronto, BMO Capital Markets-Canada provides full-service, institutional brokerage services to corporate, institutional and government clients around the world.

ONEX Canada Asset Management, Inc. (Investment Management) (OCAM-IM) is the investment management division of ONEX Canada Asset Management, Inc., an investment company headquartered in Toronto, Canada. Formerly known as Gluskin Sheff + Associates, Inc., the firm was founded by Ira Gluskin and Gerald Sheff in 1984 and is a subsidiary of ONEX Corp. (TSX: ONEX). OCAM-IM provides private and liquid market investment solutions to wealth advisors and their clients.

Scotia Capital, Inc. (Broker) (Scotia Capital-Broker) is the broker-dealer division of Scotia Capital, Inc., a full-service financial services firm headquartered in Toronto, Canada. The firm is owned by The Bank of Nova Scotia (NYSE, TSE: BNS). Scotia Capital-Broker delivers a broad range of electronic trading products such as high-touch, low-latency, market access and a broad algorithmic trading suite for a wide range of clients globally. They publish monthly indexes to help investors track the performance of Canadian Hedge Funds and Alternative Mutual Funds.

National Bank Financial, Inc. (Broker) (NBF-Broker) is the broker/dealer division of National Bank Financial, Inc., a Canadian mutual fund manager headquartered in Montréal, Quebec. The firm was founded in 1902 and is a direct subsidiary of National Bank Acquisition Holding, Inc., ultimately owned by National Bank of Canada (TSX: NA). NBF-Broker provides retail advisory and brokerage services with institutional brokerage, investment banking, corporate finance and securities clearing services for third parties. The firm has a substantial presence in all regions of Canada, as well as operations in the US and Europe.

TD Securities, Inc. is a Canadian broker/dealer headquartered in Toronto, Ontario. The firm is a subsidiary of The Toronto-Dominion Bank (NYSE, TSE: TD). TD Securities provides a wide range of capital market products and services to corporate, government and institutional clients. Their services also include the underwriting and distribution of new debt and equity issues, providing advice on strategic acquisitions and divestitures and executing daily trading and investment needs. The firm’s equity group provides research coverage of various sectors. Their fixed-income group provides a full range of underwriting sales and trading products for Canadian, US and European debt issuers and investors.

RBC Dominion Securities, Inc. (RBCDS) is a Canadian broker/dealer headquartered in Toronto, Ontario. The firm was founded in 1901 and is a subsidiary of Royal Bank of Canada (TSE, NYSE: RY). RBCDS provides a full spectrum of brokerage services to retail and corporate clients.

Credit Suisse Securities (Canada) Inc. is a broker/dealer headquartered in Toronto, Ontario with offices worldwide. The firm is a subsidiary of Credit Suisse Group (NYSE: CS). Their equity research equity group engages in a broad range of activities for investors including sales, trading, financing, prime brokerage and market-making in U.S. and international equity and equity related securities, options, futures, risk management and hedging products. Their activities cover both exchange-traded and over-the-counter traded securities, including American depositary receipts, restricted stocks, equity repurchases, block trade executions, program trading executions, equity derivatives and convertible securities. The fixed-income franchise operates as a single, unified platform that handles all fixed-income cash and derivative products. Products and services range from securitization and liability management transactions to sales and trading and superior research.

Globalive Communications Corp. provides telecommunications services. It provides conferencing services, consumer long-distance services, dialing codes and payphones. The firm rents student housing in Niagara and St. Catharine’s, Canada and offers land development and residential condominium developments services. It serves individuals and a retail network of stores and dealers in Canada. The company was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

Onex Partners (Onex Partners) is a private equity subsidiary of ONEX Corp. founded in 1984. The firm is headquartered in Toronto, Canada with offices in New York, New Jersey, Boston and London.

Imperial Capital Group Ltd (Imperial Capital) is a private equity firm founded in 1989 by Stephen D. Lister and Jeffrey Rosenthal. The firm is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

Neoen Services SAS engages in the supply electricity. The firm provides its services to a range of clients like industrial and commercial customers, small and medium sized businesses, and local authorities. The company is headquartered in Paris, France.

Strategy& engages in the provision of global management consulting services. It serves industries including aerospace and defense; health; oil and gas; technology; automotive; entertainment and media; power and utilities; telecommunications; and transportation. The company was founded in 1914 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Calgary Scientific, Inc. provides advanced imaging research and diagnostic technologies. The firm offers an enterprise healthcare image viewer to access, collaborate, and analyze graphics-intensive data securely on mobile and web. It also offers professional, managed, educational and through-partner services. The company was founded in 2004 by Chen T. Fong and Byron G. Osing and is headquartered in Calgary, Canada.

Northleaf Capital Partners Ltd. (Northleaf Capital) is a private equity firm founded in 2005. The firm is headquartered in Toronto with an additional office in Montreal.

Research Capital Corp. is an independent, fully integrated national investment dealer headquartered in Toronto, Canada. The firm was founded in 2010 as Mackie Research Capital Corp. until 2021. Research Capital offers a complete range of capital markets and wealth management services to private clients, institutions and growth companies with offices across Canada.

Canaccord Genuity Corp. (CGC) is the broker/dealer subsidiary of Canaccord Genuity Group, Inc., (TSE: CF; OTCMKTS: CCORF) in Canada. The firm was founded in 2010 and is locally known as Financière Canaccord ltée. Headquartered in Vancouver, CGC offers corporate and institutional clients with versatile and responsive sales and execution services that range from Institutional Equities and International Equities to Electronic Trading and Fixed Income. Their sales & trading team execution capabilities encompass a wide range of products and services such as Equities, ADR’s, OTC, ETF’s, Fixed Income, Options, Preferreds, Investment Companies.

iCON Infrastructure LLP is a private equity firm founded in 2004 by Paul Malan. The firm is headquartered in London, United Kingdom with offices in Germany, Canada and the United States.

Wattpad Corp. offers stories over an internet website. The firm serves the people to read written works by creating a social networking and digital entertainment platform for readers and writers to discover, share and connect. Its app available on mobile devices including Google Android, iPhone, BlackBerry, Windows Phone 7, Nokia and Samsung. The company was founded by Lau Allen and Yuen Ivan in 2006 and is headquartered in Markham, Canada.

Fulcrum Capital Partners, Inc (Fulcrum Capital Partners) is an independent private equity firm founded in 1993. The firm is headquartered in Canada.

ONCAP Management, Inc. (ONCAP Management) is a private equity subsidiary of ONEX Corp. founded in 1999. The firm is headquartered in Toronto, Canada with additional office in New York.

TD Economics is a Canadian investment research firm headquartered in Toronto, Ontario. It is a subsidiary of the Toronto-Dominion Bank (NYSE: TD, TSX: TD). The firm provides analysis of economic performance and the implications for investors. Their analysis covers the globe, with emphasis on Canada, the United States, Europe and Asia.

LightOn SAS develops novel optics based computing hardware for machine learning. The company was founded by Igor Carron, Laurent Daudet, Florent Krzakala and Sylvain Gigan and is headquartered in Paris, France.

Volta Labs is a Canadian bioautomation company that specializes in developing innovative solutions to simplify the upstream workflows in genomic sequencing. The private company is based in Halifax, Canada, and offers programming, events, and co-working space to the innovation community. The company is building a sequencer agnostic platform for sample preparation, which spans across hardware, software, chemistry, and biology. Volta Labs was founded in 2018 by Udayan Umapathi, who is the CEO, and Will Langford, the head of engineering.

Pasqal SAS is a quantum computing startup that specializes in manufacturing quantum information processors and hybrid quantum-classical full stack computers. The company is based in Palaiseau, France, and was born out of works performed at Institut d'Optique/CNRS. Pasqal's teams have a decade of expertise and numerous achievements in the engineering of lasers, atom manipulation, and detection systems. The French company is backed by Quantonation, a leading early-stage venture capital fund focusing on deep physics and quantum technologies. The company was founded in 2019, and Georges-Olivier Reymond has been the CEO of the company since 2019.

Welinq provides solutions to interconnect quantum processors to increase their computational power and make them quantum-accessible at a distance. The company is based in Paris, France. The French company use photons synchronized by quantum memories to share quantum information and create entanglement between qpus.

Part of Pasqal SAS, Qu & Co. BV is a Dutch company that develops quantum computational software. The company is based in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The company was founded in 2017 by Benno Broer, Vincent Elfving. Benno Broer has been the CEO since 2017. Qu was acquired by Pasqal SAS on January 10, 2022.

Kets Quantum Security Ltd. is a British company that develops a chip-based telecommunication platform. The company is based in Bristol, UK. The company was founded in 2016.