Gary Cohen

Founded by Jeffrey Vinik in 1996, Vinik Asset Management LP is a hedge fund manager located Tampa, Florida. The firm manages a pool of money for the firm's principals and their families.

Market Metrics is the leading market research firm in the United States focusing on advisor-sold investments and insurance. For more than a decade it has worked closely with asset managers and insurance companies to provide the information they need to grow. Market Metrics works with senior managers at many of the largest financial service firms in the world. It has earned their trust by consistently providing high-quality data, and presenting the data in a way that facilitates their decision-making Market Metrics began in 1993. The firm was originally part of Monitor Group, a family of professional service firms that is primarily focused on strategy consulting. Market Metrics became an independent company in 1996. Since then, the firm's scope of services has grown tremendously, from mutual funds to variable annuities to the wide range of asset management and insurance products that it covers today. The firm is headquartered in Quincy, Massachusetts, just outside of Boston. It also maintains offices in Chicago and Denver in order to serve clients throughout the United States.

The Parthenon Group LLC provided strategic advisory and principal investment services. The company had offices in Boston, London, and San Francisco. The Parthenon Group was founded by William Achtmeyer and John Rutherford in 1991 and was headquartered in Boston, MA.