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The Teacher Retirement System of Texas (TRS) is a state-owned pension fund manager headquartered in Austin, Texas. The firm was founded by the Texas Legislature in 1937 to provide service and disability retirement benefits to teachers and administrators of the public school systems of Texas, which include institutions of higher education. In 1949, legislation expanded membership eligibility to include all employees of public education institutions. In 1985, TRS was assigned responsibility to administer health insurance program for public school retirees. The firm invests funds under its stewardship and delivers benefits to members as authorized by the Texas Legislature.

Ernst & Young LLP engages in the provision of accounting, assurance, tax, transaction, and advisory services. It specializes in the actuarial, analytics and big data, cyber security, accounting compliance and reporting, center for board matters, international financial reporting standards, country tax advisory, global trade, tax accounting, and climate change and sustainability. The company was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

State Bar of Texas provides legal educational programming services. The private company is based in Austin, TX.

University of Houston System offers higher education degrees and job training or vocational study programs. It offers about 280 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in fields such as business, education, humanities and law. It was founded in 1927 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

Ebony Media Operations LLC provides marketing consulting services. The company is headquartered in Austin, TX.

EnCap Investments LP (EnCap Investments) is a private equity firm founded in 1988 by Gary Peterson and Robert Zorich and The firm is headquartered in Houston, Texas.

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.

Deloitte & Touche LLP engages in the provision of audit, advisory, financial advisory, tax, and consulting services. The company was founded on March 7, 1995 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Association for Corporate Growth, Inc. is a global organization founded in 1954 by Kenneth S. Berryman and David H. Brenner. The non-profit company is based in Chicago, IL and has subsidiaries in the United Kingdom, Netherlands, Canada, and the United States. The company's mission is to drive middle-market growth and it serves 90,000 investors, executives, lenders, and advisers to growing middle-market companies. The company's core focus is on middle-market M&A, with more than 25 years of sell-side and buy-side advisory experience, closing more than 200 transactions with a combined value of more than $1 billion. The company also publishes Middle Market Growth, the official publication of the Association for Corporate Growth, which includes a print magazine, website, weekly e-newsletter, and daily newsfeed. The CEO of the company since 2019 is Brent A. Baxter.

Founded in 1989 by Don Rice, Jeffrey Sangalis, Jeffrey Toole and James Wilson, RSTW Partners is a private equity firm headquartered in Houston, Texas.

Council on Foreign Relations, Inc. provides and disseminates ideas on foreign policies to individuals, corporate members, journalists and policy makers. It operates a forum for government officials, students and other interested parties to study and discuss world issues and impact on American foreign policies. The company publishes Foreign Affairs, a magazine that comes out six times a year, along with books and studies by its own scholars. Council on Foreign Relations was founded in 1921 and is headquartered in New York City, NY.

The Texas Medical Center provides healthcare services. The company was founded in 1900 and is headquartered in Huston, TX.

Part of Citigroup, Inc., Citibank NA (Jakarta Branch) is a company based in Jakarta, Indonesia. The CEO of the Indonesian company is Khondoker Rashed Maqsood.

Blueprint Capital Advisors LLC is an alternative investment firm that manages fund and direct investments in private credit and other alternative lending strategies. Blueprint Capital Advisors is based in New York, NY. The private company's focus is on niche direct lending, specialty finance, royalties and advances, real asset related investments and distressed debt strategies. The firm is registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission and advises on $1.40 billion of assets. The company was founded by Jacob Walthour and he has been the CEO since incorporation.

SensorBit Systems, Inc. develops and commercializes a new vapor sensing technology. Its Sensor-on-Chip, a semiconductor chip with vapor sensing technology for detecting trace amounts of complex chemical vapors. The company was founded on January 1, 2010 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

Citadel Advisors LLC is a SEC-registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in Miami, Illinois. The firm was founded in 1990 by Kenneth Griffin and is a wholly-owned by Citadel Advisors Holdings LP, ultimately held by GFH HFEVA LLC. Citadel Advisors manages private investment funds that are offered exclusively to sophisticated investors.

SeneXta Therapeutics SA engages in the research and development of therapies for neurodegenerative disorders. The firm provides medicines that maintain healthy brain ageing and rehabilitation after ischemic brain injury. The company was founded by Enrico Braglia and Federica Pericle in 2008 and is headquartered in Lugano, Switzerland.

Part of Scient, Inc., Digital Planet is a cloud hosting solutions provider that offers anti-virus, online backup, and managed firewall services to businesses. The company is based in Los Angeles, CA and was founded by Calvin Scharffs, Joshua Greer, Steven Chester, and Paul M. Grand. The company's anti-virus solution supports major operating systems and provides multiple layers of protection, while their IPS & IDS systems monitor network traffic for unwanted threats. Digital Planet was acquired by iXL, Inc. on May 18, 1998.

Lingotek, Inc. provides language translation software solutions. Its software helps companies achieve unprecedented control over the translation process. The firm’s technology enables companies to capture, grow, and re-use their linguistic assets. The company was founded by Timothy R. Hunt in 2005 and is headquartered in Draper, UT.

Accent-Fairchild Group, Inc. manufactures and supplies house and hardware products. Its divisions include accent, fisher, lifetime, meyer, MLM, 3D Light FX and wean green. The firm’s products include houseware storage containers and shelving, food storage containers, tool boxes, and metal and plastic parts cabinets. The company was founded in 1974 and is headquartered in Quebec, Canada.

Manning NavComp, Inc. provides web based GPS vehicle tracking services for fleet management purposes. Its services include development and integration of digital communications systems, target tracking systems, and state of the art control of distributed communication and surveillance platforms. The company was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

Merrill Lynch International (MLI-UK) is a brokerage firm headquartered in London, UK. The firm was founded in 1988 and is a subsidiary of ML UK Capital Holdings Ltd., ultimately owned by Bank of America Corp. (NYSE: BAC) in the US. MLI-UK provides brokerage services to individual and retail clients.